Sanborn Central, SD

The Sanborn Central Horizons II Graduation Celebration was held on Saturday, July 26th at the 4-H Building in Forestburg. Pizza was served and the Extension staff brought cake to celebrate the accomplishments made through the Horizons II project.

The laptop computer and printer were presented and will be housed at the Letcher Library, along with the digital camera. Anyone wanting to use the equipment should contact Mary Ackman at 248-2242.

A check for the remaining $8,500 was received from the Northwest Area Foundation. Also, each of our three communities received two Horizons signs to put up in our community.

THANK YOU to the Northwest Area Foundation and South Dakota Cooperative Extension Service!!

Click here to see a slide show of the graduation ceremony.

Celebrating 21 Horizons II successes is a new publication from the SDSU Cooperative Extension Service. This 8-page tabloid highlights the many successes documented by the 21 communities across South Dakota that recently completed the Horizons II project.

To read more about the great things happening in South Dakota communities click here.

May 4th - Mt. Pleasant Cemetery clean up in Artesian at 1:30 p.m. Contact: Wendy Peer at 527-2321

May 14th - Westlawn Cemetery/St. Scholastica Cemetery clean up in Letcher at 6:30 p.m. Contact: Sally Olson at 248-2393

May 17th - Town Clean Up in Letcher at 8:00 a.m. (meet at the Community Center) Contact: Mary Luckett at 248-2466

May 17th - Town Clean Up in Forestburg at 9:00 a.m. (meet at the ballpark) Contact: Margo Edwards at 495-4366

May 18th - Town Clean Up in Artesian at 1:00 p.m. Contact: Karen Lambert at 527-2265

May 31st - Community Rummage Sale at the old Forestburg gym starting at 8:30 a.m. Contact: Dawna Van Overschelde at 248-2419

June 8th - Art in the Garden in Letcher from 11:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. Contact: Cindy Gregg at 996-5402.

June 14th - City-wide rummage sales in Letcher. Contact: Tiffany Hoffman at 248-2235

June 28th - Paint SD work day at Missy Hoffman’s house in Letcher. Contact: Kim VanWalleghen at 248-2204

June 28th - Work day to paint Arlene Dorris’ house in Artesian. Contact: Karen Lambert at 527-2265

July 26th - Sanborn Central Horizons II Graduation Celebration at 7:00 p.m. at the 4-H Building in Forestburg.

If you have other dates to add to this list, just leave a comment and we’ll get those dates posted too.

A clean up was held in Forestburg on Saturday, May 17th. A total of 15 volunteers met at 9:00 a.m. and worked to clean up the lot north of the ballpark. Lunch was served in the church basement for everyone helping with the clean up.

At the marketing seminar in Armour, one of the questions we were asked was, “What do we want to be known for?” Milan Wall told us to find something special and unique about our communities and develop a slogan that people could associate with each of our towns. With a lot of help from Martha (thanks, Martha!) these are the slogans we came up with for each town:

      Artesian               Forestburg               Letcher

A Forestburg Community Meeting will be held on Thursday, February 21st at 7:00 p.m. at the Forestburg Lutheran Church.

Work is underway on Goal One—Objective Four, which is repaving Forestburg’s Main Street. Horizons II members (Sue Dise, Velma Kneen, Dottie Zoss, Doug & Elma Nurnberg and Margo Edwards) served on a steering committee to set goals for the village of Forestburg. Road repair was the first issue. In November, volunteers filled potholes on Main Street and Corliss Avenue in Forestburg.

On December 8th, the Forestburg Community Development Corporation held a rifle raffle and community meal at Doren’s Bar. Robert and Velma Kneen donated two turkeys that were deep fried and DeWayne Edwards did the carving. Door prizes were given away and the meal was enjoyed by many people before the raffle drawing. The winner of the raffle was Chuck McIntyre from Brandon. Over $1,300.00 was raised from this event.

Planning will begin in February for the next fundraiser, which will be Bingo at the 4-H Building in Forestburg. Check back here for more information.

Every time I click on the blog site, I see more exciting things happening in Artesian, Letcher and Forestburg; Rifle Raffles, a ham drawing, food pantry updates, post office open house, santa coming - Whew! It makes me want to check it out in person. Thanks for eveyone who is involved in the community.
For those of you who don’t have a copy of the Written Strategic Plan, contact a memeber of the Horizons planing committee to obtain one and see the many ways you can be involved in moving rorward into the future.
Stay Warm and Happy!!!!