Sanborn Central, SD

The next monthly Horizons II meeting is scheduled for March 19th at 7:00 p.m. at the 4-H Building in Forestburg.

We’ll see you there!!  

An informational meeting for all veterans and spouses will be held on March 26th at 7:30 p.m. in the Sanborn County 4-H Building. Ken Lindblad, the Beadle/Sanborn County Veterans Service Officer, will be presenting needed information for veterans and their spouses.

“Hometown Competitiveness Training”

will be held in Lincoln, Nebraska

from March 11th through March 13th

An Economic Development Strategies & Entrepreneurial Support Seminar was held on February 7th at the 4-H Building in Forestburg. Several communities were represented at the seminar, including Artesian, Forestburg, Letcher, Iroquois, Montrose, Oldham, Woonsocket, and Wessington Springs.

Professor Gerald W. Warmann with the SDSU Department of Economics discussed assessing your community’s capacity for economic development and presented a profile using a local county.  Dr. Larry Swain from Brookings gave a presentation on entrepreneurship and talked about how to support new business ventures and resources available to sustain them.

Thank you to the Sanborn County 4-H Leader’s Association for serving the meal for the seminar! 

Pictured above is one of the welcome baskets being distributed to new residents in Artesian, Forestburg and Letcher. Thanks to Amanda Chada for doing such a nice job of putting together these welcome baskets!

Some items included in the welcome baskets are: a season pass for the Summer Youth Program, passes to an athletic event at Sanborn Central School, a subscription to the local paper, free haircuts from a local business, a cookbook put together by the Letcher Community Club, and pens, coasters, letter openers, and other items from area businesses.

Goal 3 of Sanborn Central Horizons’ Strategic Plan is to improve the quality of life for all citizens. Objective 1 states that the communities will support families and individuals in need. As an implementation step for this objective, the Good Stuff Committee was formed to help families and individuals who lose their homes to fires or other natural disasters or those who are experiencing medical crisis who need financial assistance.

Shown above are pictures from the Dave Schwemle benefit held in December. Dave was hospitalized as a result of complications from diabetes, had several months of therapy, and was unable to work. Proceeds from the benefit helped Dave with his medical expenses. Horizons II worked together with Thrivent Financial of Sanborn County to organize this benefit. If you know of a family or individual who is in need of assistance from the Good Stuff Committee, contact Margo Edwards at 495-4366.

As part of Goal Two-Objective One, a database is being developed to share resources and skills of community members. The first step toward implementing this goal is a survey to solicit skills and available resources to be included in this database.

You can print the survey, complete it, and mail it to Mary Ackman at 214 W. Main Street, Letcher, SD 57359 or you can copy and paste both pages of the survey into an email and send it to letchertown@santel.net

Click on the following link for the survey:

Community Resources Data Survey

The survey has also been added to the right hand side of the blog. Under “pages” click on “Community Resources Data Survey.”

An Open House was held in the Fitness Room during Parent/Teacher Conferences on February 13th. A big thanks goes to Leona Klinkner for being there from 2:00 until 7:00! Lots of people stopped by to view the exercise equipment and to enjoy some healthy snacks. Martha even stopped in on her way to a meeting.

Horizons II purchased exercise equipment for the Fitness Room, which is located in the old weight room at Sanborn Central School. The Fitness Room is available FREE for the public to use. The exercise equipment includes a stationary bike, a stair stepper, an elliptical machine, and an aero-dyne bike.

Shown above is Dorothy Weinberger with the cart that was purchased by Sanborn Central Horizons II. This cart and other items were purchased to be used for the Senior Meal Program and other events held at the Artesian Community Center.

The Artesian Senior Meal Program celebrated its first anniversary on January 8th. In the past year, 1,976 meals were served. The meals are prepared at the Mitchell Middle School and are delivered to the Artesian Community Center on Tuesdays and Thursdays. The average attendance is 21, with as many as 32 attending at times. For more information about this program contact Dorothy at 527-2283.

There will be an Artesian Quasquicentennial Meeting on Sunday, March 2nd at 7:00 p.m. in the Artesian Community Center. Everyone is welcome!

Artesian’s Quasquicentennial will be held July 4, 2008, through July 6, 2008. For more information contact Justin Dean at 527-2630 or Wendy Peer at 527-2321. If you would like to enter a float in the parade, contact Francis Effling at 527-2250.