Results Of Essay Response for Deer Park Horizons Survey

The top 7 concerns

Job Expansion 23
Recruit new business 11
Education 8
Reduce drug use 7
Youth/Senior Center 6
Life skills/training 6
Transportation 5

The following received votes from 1 to 4 (in order from most votes to least)

Community Center 4
Community Pride 4
Financial Education 4
Community Recreation/tourism 4
Community Garden 3
Home Ownership 3
Buy Local 2
Donate time & resources 2
Renewable energy 2
Self employment 2
Childcare 2
Give back money 1
Forced labor 1
Printing presses to print more money 1
Community co-op 1
Reduce government control & restrictions 1

THIS IN NOT THE FINAL SURVEY RESULTS . The final results will be posted later so keep checking the Deer Park Horizons Blog for the final results.

DEER PARK CONCERT SERIES

The Deer Park Concert Series FREE TO THE PUBLIC
Saturdays 6:00 - 8:30PM
Earl D. Mix Park

June 2o, Elvis Tribute
June 27, Country Western
July 11, Rhythm & Blues
July 18, Beatles Tribute
July 25, Big Band Swing & JazzS
http://www.HandshakeProductions.net

LOCAL FARMERS MARKETS

Claton Famers Market
Clayton Fairgrounds
Sundays MAY 31- SEPT 30 1-5PM
http://www.claytoncommunityfair.org

Montfort School Community Center Farmers Market
1915 W. Monroe Rd (West off 395 & 5 miles southj of Deer Park)
Thursdays May - Oct 4 - 7PM
Lori Musgrave Director
235-6707
http://montfortschool.org/

Lake Spokane Farmers Market (Suncrest Area)
5928 Hwy 291 nest to LBJ Mini-Storage/Suncrest Rental
Saurdays 9-12 June-Sept
509 590-6075
fortner3@hotmail.com

PLANT A ROW FOR THE HUNGRY

LEND A HAND.

USE A HOE.

PLANT A ROW.

HOW YOU CAN HELP:

.Plant an extra row in your garden for hungry people.

.Volunteer to help plant a community garden.

.Donate vegetable seeds, tools and gloves.

.Make a cash donation to purchase seeds.

.Serve on a planning committee for your community such as Horizons.

.Encourage your friends, church and business to participate.

.Help with the harvest this fall.

For local Deer Park and surrounding area donation contact:

Greenhouse Food Bank

12 W. First StDeer Park, WA 99006

509 276-8224

http://greenhouse.qwestoffice.net/12201.html

Second Harvest Plant A Row Contact

509 252-6257

Plant A Row Coordinator

WSU Spokane County Extension

509 477-2173

Support letters for WSU Extension Horizon's

WSU Extension Horizons program staff have written a Compassion Capital Fund Demonstration Program grant to continue and expanded our work with Horizons Alumni Communities and the current Horizons (H3) communities. The grant is for 12 months, $500,000 total, with at least $200,000 of the grant being available for Alumni Horizons communities to apply for as sub-grants, back to the communities. We have built in additional training dollars, finances and incentives for Alumni communities to serve as "mentors" to new Horizons communities, limited Coaching time, in addition to the sub-grants. This Federally funded grant encourages us to acquire support letters from community members, organizations and partners.
Attached is a sample letter. If you feel comfortable in writing a support letter, please return it to Doreen Hauser-Lindstrom, WSU - Spokane, South Facility, PO Box 1495, Spokane, WA 99210, or fax 509.358.7549 or scan todoreen@wsu.edu by Friday, June 19th.
If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact me.
Thank-you for your support.
Extension - Spokane Campus Community Vitality Specialist Statewide Horizons Program PO Box 1495Spokane, WA 99210509.358.7686509.358.7549 (Fax)509.435.3381 (Cell)doreen@wsu.eduwww.horizons.wsu.edu

Deer Park Horizon’s June Progress

While around 20 area residents are finalizing three projects outlined in December 2008 as one way to reduce poverty in the Deer Park area, the most immediate deadline in Mid July has created an urgent need to request the assistance of the Deer Park Community. We need to receive and review 400-500 surveys from Deer Park residents and surrounding areas. We have been distributing the surveys and receive minimal returns. So we are getting out the big guns! We’ve gotten 41 posters from the Chattaroy Elementary students in a Poster Contest and with an Essay contest we received 58 surveys from Deer Park High School students. Several individuals have been getting surveys filled out in their stores, churches, exercise class and other meeting places that the Horizons committee are involved in within Deer Park. So now we hope to receive the remaining necessary surveys by Friday, July 3rd. The Deer Park Tribune will deliver the surveys on June 24th and 3 winners will receive prizes from a random drawing from surveys received by Friday, July 3rd. You may mail or drop off your survey to Melo’s Flowers or the Chamber of Commerce. Details are on the surveys. The survey results will then give committee members the next direction for the Horizon’s project – Visioning. To date, the Deer Park’s Northwest Foundation Horizons project progress includes finalizing three current project and 25 residents have competed the Leadership Plenty 12 week training. To see the progress, go to the blog: http://deerpark-wa.blogspot.com.

The three current projects that were determined during the December 2009 action forum include:

Youth projects, Kelly Archer 276-1612
Koisk, Christine Clark 276-2006
Resource Brochures, Debbie Cogan 276-9462

The projects are complex and committee driven with many changes throughout the past months. In addition to working on the three projects, 20 area residents participated in the Horizons Leadership Plenty seminars. We met every Monday at the Deer Park city hall and Senior Center meeting rooms for 12 weeks to complete the Horizons curriculum. The main goal of the Northwest Foundation’s Horizons Deer Park group is to create a forum of discussions within the community to find realistic solutions to eliminate poverty. The discussion of “poverty” also follows.

Kiosk Committee meeting moved to June 23

The Kiosk Committee meeting scheduled for Tuesday June 16 will be moved to June 23, at 1 pm at the Deer Park Senior Center.


Agenda: Pilot project kiosk update.
Cost estimate,confirmation of sites for future kiosks.
US HWY 395 Highway Signs for Visitor Center Signs.
Main intersection city signs for the Visitor Center area which includes PILOT PROJECT Kiosk.
Arts Center, Chamber of Commerce Visitor center, Crawford Art Gallery and public restrooms available seven days a week.


This is the kind of map that the kiosk committee hopes that the information and resource committee can provide for the Kiosks in the Deer Park Area:

This map could include:

THE LIBRARY,
Deer Park Golf Course,
Elk community park,
post offices at Elk,
Chattaroy,
Deer Park, and
Clayton,
Deer Park Urgent Care,
CHAS Clinic,
Riverside Medical-Dental Clinic,
Swimming pool at Swinyard Park,
City Hall-Deer Park,
Community Arts Center-Deer Park,
Clayton Community Fairgrounds,
other parks,
School Districts, Riverside, Chattaroy,
Deer Park, Home Link, etc

It could be framed by ads by businesses such as Finafrock Excavating,Inc,The Ram, Deer Park Ambulance, Deer Park Eagles, Deer Park VFW, Deer Park Bowl, Horizon Credit Union, Washington Trust, Bank of America, Ace Hardware, Bi-Mart, Hagen's Hdw, Realtors, Doug Lilly's Edward Jones, and other businesses that would like to participate.

HORIZONS MEETING

MONDAY JUNE 22, 5:00 PM
The Deer Park Horizons group will meet at the Deer Park Library (meeting place subject to notified change ).
We will begin compiling the results of the surveys and setting a date for our Community Visioning Event.
Please join us with input and help for these Horizons activities.

Kiosk meeting June 16, 1 pm

The Horizons Deer Park Area Community Project Kiosk Committee meeting has been changed to next Tuesday, June 16 at 1 pm at the Senior Center.

SURVEY WINNERS CHOSEN

-Surveys,essays and posters were gathered from the Chattaroy, Riverside and Deer Park schools. Winners were chosen by the school survey committee from Horizons. The essay winner from Deer Park High School is A . T. with a prize of $25.00 which was presented to him at school today. The poster and class ice cream winners will be announced later. Mrs. F. , the high school teacher that worked with us on the project said the students were very interested in the surveys with alot of class discussion. Jobs, we need jobs, was the repeated thoughts of the teens. I think there are several teens in Deer Park that would like summer jobs in particular, if they were available.