Scotland, SD

After the appearance of our ad in the Scotland Journal once a month for 3 months, the response from donors is amazing.
And we are now considering the possibility of needing a larger space.

Del Neumeister (UCC minister) has been providing space at his church for our community food pantry. He suggests that we try to find a larger faciity which could house both GOOD STUFF household donations and the food pantry. He also had a call regarding good clean used children’s winter hats, coats, scarves, etc. The food pantry has no space for these articles so we will be keep them at our GOOD STUFF location.

We need everyone to hold good thoughts about having a large FREE facility made available to house all of the above.

Our Horizons dinner will be held on December 7 and we are looking forward to hearing about the progress on all of our projects.

Remember those “FUN” pre and post surveys that the Horizons Staff had you take during Study Circles and LeadershipPLENTY?

Believe it or not - it was for a purpose!  Those pre and post surveys help us to understand how much your community learned about poverty and about leadership by your participation in those specified curriculums.

As a result, we have assembled a community profile with the results of the pre and post surveys for both Study Circles and LeadershipPLENTY.  Check out your community results by clicking on the links found under “Survey Data” on the right hand side of your community blog.

The GOOD STUFF project provides an opportunity for sharing unneeded household good stuff with a neighbor in need rather than sending it off to the landfill.

GOOD STUFF came into being with the ENCOURAGEMENT and PUSH of Horizons. We received a grant of $800. for our start up. $600. will be used for 12 monthly ads in the Scotland Journal. $100. provided a Waiver/Agreement prepared by our City Attorney which covers any liability and $100. is on deposit with our hardware store for necessary minor help for our donations. We have been given (rent free) the use of an empty downtown shop which belongs to our dentist, Curt Johnson. We do not feel that it will be necessary to heat the shop and should be able to manage this project without additional financial funding.

Posters and hand outs have been given to local churches, organizations and added to our welcome brochures. Our second ad in the Scotland Journal will appear this month. We are currently working on a list of volunteers with pick ups and strong backs to take care of transport.

Our initial donations include a complete bedroom set, an additional box spring/mattress, sofa bed, recliner, 2 upholstered chairs, small bookcase, 2 cribs and bedding. And a friend called last week to offer an artificial Christmas tree!