Board of Directors Meeting Place Change

Deer Park in Progress (DPiP) Board of Directors Meeting:
Monday January 10, 2011. 5:30PM
Deer Park Senior Center

Entrepreneur Resources Convention

Sponsored by Colville Horizons, IEL Colville Center, WSU Stevens County Extension
Saturday, November 14th, 2009 Institute of Extended Learning. Colville Center 985 S. Elm St, Colville Schedule

9:00 AM Introduction and Welcome (Vicky Broden Horizons MC)
9:10 AM Keynote Speaker: Elliott Edwards (Hachisoft Corporation)
Local entrepreneurship (What has worked for him. Role of technology in helping new entrepreneurs.)
9:55 AM Debra Kollock (WSU Extension)
What’s Horizons? WSU business plan competition for high school students.
10:15 AM Donna Jo Smith (IEL)
What training, educational opportunities are offered at the community college to support entrepreneurs
10:30 AM Dana McDowell (Colville Horizons)

Horizons “Big Idea” contest for product-minded future entrepreneurs. Winners get an $800 scholarship to assess the marketability of their product at the WSU Innovator Center in Pullman. There will be one scholarship for a Colville resident and another for non-Colville resident.
10:40 AM Break
10:50 AM Leslie Jones (Tri County Economic Development District)
How does the District assist existing and startup businesses in the area?
11:10 AM Betty Buckley (Stonesoup)
How can Stonesoup train, finance and market a new entrepreneur?
11:40 AM Monica McCackin (Forestry Specialty Products)
Showcase the coming together of a new enterprise.
12:00 PM lunch provided
12:30 PM Keynote speaker Heather Ruskievicz (Heather’s Fairy Tale Bakery)
How to follow the entrepreneurial dream
1:00 to 2:00 PM First workshop breakout session.

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Grant Boot Camp Ritzville

Horizons Teams:

It is important that each community recruit a TEAM of 3-4 people to attend together and share this experience. History shows that it’s hard to process all this information and then share it in your community. So try your very best and work with your coach and Leadership Team to identify and recruit a solid team. And, you MUST stay the entire time.

Horizons Projects:

Each ‘team’ will be allowed to submit 1 project idea for the entire group’s consideration. Working groups will be formed to write a grant proposal of the selected project ideas. Your submission should be typed and copied (50 copies please) on one sided paper and it should include a summary description of the project need and idea, your potential partners, the approximate cost and any possible funding sources.

HORIZONS
GRANT BOOT CAMP
This event is an intensive grant proposal training focusing on public and foundation funders. Teams of 3 are invited from all Inland Northwest Horizons communities. Participants are expected to stay the entire weekend.

Friday, December 4th through Sunday, December 6th

Ritzville, WA
Lodging: Best Western Inn
Training Site:
Registration:

Pre-Registration is due by Friday, November 28th
(please coordinate with your Horizons coach, Deer Park, Krisan Lehew)

Proposed Learning Objectives:
Understand how to complete a Community Development Block Grant proposal
Define grants and types of grants
Identify potential resources for grant funding
Identify the major components of a grant proposal and the content of each
Critically evaluate a proposal against the stated criteria of the funder
Write a grant proposal that is compatible with the goals of the funding source

For the agenda contact the
Horizons coach.

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Building Financially Savvy Communities

Certified Money Management Training
Coeur d’ Alene
Friday, November 20
9:30-3:30
The lack of financial education and current economic conditions
First Presbyterian Church
has created a serious recipe for financial disaster within
Fireside Room
521 E Lakeside Ave
households throughout the Inland Northwest. Consumer Credit
Counseling Services invites you to become a Certified Money
Management Trainer (CMMT) who can provide financial
education and, ultimately, improve lives and the community.
Spokane
Friday December 4
Please join over 100 leaders this year who have taken this
9:00 -3:00 training and use it regularly with their clients and customers.
Northtown Office Building
Columbia Room
4407 N Division St. Suite 814

You will be able to assist families:
Assess finances and set goals
Make and keep budgets
Pay down credit and use it wisely
Build savings
If you are working with anybody
Create an action plan when facing less income
(including yourself) trying to manage.
Manage credit reports and improve scores
finances and develop budgets more
effectively and efficiently, this is the
workshop for you. I found this one of
Additional perks:
the best trainings I have taken with the
Free resources, tools, books for the people you serve
broadest application.
On-going support from CCCS staff and volunteers
Bob Driscoll
Educational credits or CRA credits
Bring the tools home to your co-workers, clients and family
This training is timely and needed for
all the members of our community
during this period of financial
upheaval. Anyone can benefit from
learning these essential financial
Space is limited -Register Today!
skills.
Doreen Kelsey
Cost for this training is $45 per person – lunch is included.
Please call 509.242.4205 if you need additional information,
special accommodations, or if you would like to apply for a
scholarship.

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Revised Letter for City Council Meeting, Nov 4

Kiosk Committee
Deer Park Horizons III Community Project
c/o Deer Park Development Association
802 N. Cedar Road
Deer Park WA 99006
November 4 2009 Meeting: Revised Letter
Robert Whisman, Mayor
City of Deer Park
PO Box F
316 East Crawford
Deer Park WA 99006,
Dear Mayor Whisman,
Enclosed are the revised construction plans indicating consensus of the ad-
hoc meeting October 27 of two City Council Representatives, the Community
Development Director, the Streets and Roads Supervisor, the Eagle Scout
Candidate and the Horizons III Deer Park Community Project Kiosk Committee
for the recent Request for Approval by the City of Deer Park, Washington,
of the gift of:
the Pilot Project Information Kiosk at the Community Arts Center, 315 E.Crawford, designed and constructed by an Eagle Scout Candidate Seth
Nelson, Project Manager and Horizons III Deer Park Area Community Project
Kiosk Committee with community contributions.
To be approved: Site, City Donation of Land, Concrete Foundation, Sidewalk
for the pilot project Kiosk constructed with community partners including
local organizations, businesses, and resident volunteers.
This information kiosk is part of the community project to reduce poverty in
our Deer Park area community by providing a central information site with
maps, community resources, and a community bulletin board.
The Deer Park Horizons Blog, managed by Dusty Finafrock, can be viewed at:

http://deerpark-wa.blogspot.com/

Requested revisions of a gift of a pilot project Information Kiosk
The Kiosk Committee hope for your approval of this request from the
volunteer committee work which includes partnering with the Eagle Scout
candidate Seth Nelson with Troop 28 assistant Jared Attridge, the Horizons
III Deer Park Steering committee, the Horizons Community Resource
Committee, the WSU-Extension Horizons Community Coach: Krisan LeHew,
Boy Scout Troop 28, City of Deer Park, Deer Park Development Association,
Kiwanis Key Club of Deer Park High School, Deer Park Chamber of Commerce,
Deer Park Senior Center, Washington Trust Bank, Evergreen Truss, Custom
Log Furniture, Bear Country Carving, Real Estate Marketplace, GSI Glass,
Northwest Canopies, Rassmussen Log Products, Floyd’s Welding, Ace
Hardware, Rosauer’s Supermarkets, Yoke’s Fresh Markets, and Finafrock
Excavating,Inc.

We thank the Horizons Project volunteers and the City of Deer Park Council,
Mayor, and staff , especially Council Members Helen Dee Cragun, Don
Stevens, Community Development Director Roger Krieger and Streets and
Roads Supervisor Brian Ramsden for their willingness to meet with the
committee, and provide technical assistance to consider and revise the
proposal for the pilot project information kiosk.
Some of our valuable volunteers have stepped aside as health and family
needs require more personal time. Their contributions have been essential.
We miss them.
Sincerely,
Seth Nelson, pilot project manager,
Jared Attridge, assistant
Deanna Henry
Dusty Finafrock
Bob Schlein
Christine Clark
G. T. Clark
Susan & Jim Jamison
Sharon Akers
Norma Adams
Joanna Kiewert
Betty Burdette, advisor,
Melissa Stockner-Mullen, advisor
Cordelia Jeffrey
Janie DeLauri
Jeff Tomlinson
Joyce Simmons, DPDA
Christine Clark, facilitator
Krisan LeHew, Community Coach, WSU Extension, Horizons
Kiosk Committee

Deer Park In Progress Community Gardens Tour/ Next Meeting

Tour Spokane Northeast Community Garden and other community gardens with Pat Munts, of WSU Extension.
Saturday, Oct 9Th meet@ 2:PM.
Location is on the corner of Liberty and Lacey.

Deer Park in progress (DPIP)
Community garden (FOR Spring 2011)
Committee Meeting
Monday October 11, 4:00 PM
Deer park library – ( large meeting room)
208 S. Forest Ave
Deer Park, WA 99006

DPiP BOD Minutes

Horizon /Deer Park in Progress Board Meeting Minutes will be recorded by the Secretary Cordellia Jeffery

Presentation letter City Approval of Kiosk

This is the letter which will be provided to the Mayor, the City Council, and the City Staff along with copies of the construction drawings and information about the Horizons Project to prepare for the Pilot Project Information Kiosk ten (10) minute request for approval by the City on October 21, Wednesday at 7 pm.


Dear Mayor Whisman,

Please consider the Request for Approval by the City of Deer Park, Washington, of the gift of
the Pilot Project Information Kiosk at the Community Arts Center, 315 E. Crawford, designed and constructed by an Eagle Scout Candidate Seth Nelson, Project Manager and Horizons III Deer Park Area Community Project Kiosk Committee with community contributions.
To be approved: Site, City Donation of Land, Foundation, Sidewalk for the pilot project Kiosk constructed with community partners including local organizations, businesses, and resident volunteers.
In September 2008 Deer Park community volunteers agreed to work with the Horizons Project managed by Washington State University: Extension as part of a grant program to fund activities to promote prosperity and decrease poverty in small communities in partnership with the Northwest Area Foundation founded by the Great Northern Railroad. Two Study Circles were completed with a December meeting resulting in 4 goals: providing the good news about Deer Park to residents and visitors, tangible kiosks for the information, promotion of positive opportunities for children and youth, and provision of a local sustainable food supply. Committees were formed to achieve the goals.
From January to May, concurrent committee work along with a Leadership-A-Plenty skills seminar resulted in organized action. An August Community meeting for Visioning reviewed community goals obtained from a survey. The committee reports were consolidated into an Action Report as part of an August grant application to the Northwest Area Foundation with the assistance of WSU-Extension Horizons III Project.
This summer, Seth Nelson, Eagle Scout candidate (Boy Scout Troupe 28 proposed a plan for an outdoor log kiosk which portrays the logging history of Deer Park. Other information kiosks will follow.
Attached are copies of organizational materials and construction drawings.
The Kiosk Committee hope for your approval of this request which includes partnering with the Deer Park Horizons III Steering committee, the Community Resource Committee, Krisan LeHew, the WSU-Extension Horizons Community Coach, Boy Scout Troop 28, City of Deer Park, Deer Park Development Association, Deer Park Chamber of Commerce, Deer Park Senior Center, Washington Trust Bank, Evergreen Truss, Custom Log Furniture, Bear Country Carving, Northwest Canopies, Rasmussen Log Products, Floyd’s Welding, Ace Hardware, Rosauer’s Supermarkets, Yoke’s Fresh Markets, and Finafrock Excavating,Inc.

We thank the Horizons Project volunteers and the staff of the City of Deer Park, especially Community Development Director Roger Krieger, and Streets and Roads Director Brian Ramsden for their willingness to meet with the committee and provide technical assistance.
Some of our valuable volunteers have stepped aside as health and family needs require more personal time. Their contributions have been essential. We miss them.

The Deer Park Horizons Blog, managed by Dusty Finafrock, can be viewed at:http://deerpark-wa.blogspot.com/ and as always your comments are welcome and encouraged.