Silver Valley, ID

Congratulations to Judi from UpRiver, winner of week 1!

Rules:
Post your answers on your blogsite by Tuesday, April 1 (no jokes about April Fool’s day!) at midnight and be entered in the drawing for a fabulous prize.  

Reflective Question: How is your community thinking about/planning for sustainability after the end of the Horizons program on June 30? What will Horizons-related groups look like in your community in one year?

We have been able to link up with many organizations throughout the community that are on the same wavelength as us, such as the SVEDC, Shoshone Co Women’s Resource Center, and the American Legion, to name a few, as well as some “partners”, such as Velocity Business Training. All the arrows pointing in the right direction!! Along with teaming up with these other organizations, we feel that we have some very dedicated people on board, and a good base to continue into the future with. We feel that our Horizons- related groups will have expanded due to linking up with other groups, because for each new person that you come across, that person will almost inevitably know another person and so on and so forth.

 Are you optimistic/worried? (relieved?) 

Honestly I feel that we are all relieved to say the least. This has been such an endeavor for us. Some of the reasons being our population size 4,992 and our geography. We are not just one town, we are four, and technically, what comes of this project will ultimately benefit the whole Silver Valley which consists of roughly 13,000 + and 14 towns.

I feel that we are optimistic as well though because, there will be something that will come of this, even though we have to be patient, and people will see that and want to become more involved in our future. That has been another one of our obstacles as well, the old addage of “we have tried things before and nothing has come of them”.

I myself am really optimistic for our future here in the valley and even though it has been tough at times, I am glad that I was involved. Not only did I learn a lot from this process but it also gives me the tools to turn around and do something with that knowledge for others.

Scavenger Hunt Question:  Which community has been approved to receive a $65,000 Idaho Community Development Block Grant for work on their city water reservoir? HINT: don’t forget to check ‘previous entries’ (the link at the bottom of the blog page, or check archives in the column on the right) This week’s winner will receive BOTH of the following books: The Magic of Dialogue : Transforming Conflict into Cooperation by Daniel YankelovichPopulation: 485 –Meeting Your Neighbors One Siren at a Time by Michael Perry   

MyHotComments

Ok so I am goofy!!! I make the comment that this site does not allow html codes and then I figure out how to do it in like 2 seconds. Same with embedding the youtube videos. All you need to know is how to cut and paste with your mouse.

Example: find your favorite sites that have graphics, layouts, etc. One that I like is www.myhotcomments.com,

*find a graphic that you like, see above,

*click on it

*you might have to scroll down a little after doing this but somewhere below the graphic you will see a box that has a bunch of gibberish in it, this is a html code. On www.myhotcomments.com right above the box it says MySpace Profile Code, look for something along these lines.

*click in the box to highlight the code

*after highlighting the whole code, right click with your arrow on the highlighted part or else it won’t work and you will have to start over, click on “copy”

*go to your Horizons Blogging site and go to “write a post”, click on “code” instead of “visual”

* right click again and then click on paste and it will paste that html code to imbed the graphic.

* last write whatever you need to write, save & publish, and voila you should have the graphic on your page.

**follow these instructions for embedding a YouTube video, when you bring up a video, you should notice to the right of the video, a box with a bunch of gibberish again (html) and it will say “embed”. click, copy, & paste and you should be good to go.

Hope this helps, ttys ~~~Angie

Post your answers on your blogsite by Tuesday, March 25 at midnight and be entered in the drawing for a fabulous prize. This week’s prize-the weekly winner Post your answers on your blogsite by Tuesday, March 25 at midnight and be entered in the drawing for a fabulous prize. This week’s prize-the weekly winner can choose from one of these book titles
Building Communities from the Inside Out: A Path Toward Finding and Mobilizing a Community’s Assets - John P. Kretzmann or
Teaching the Commons: Place, Pride, and the Renewal of Local Schooling - Paul TheobaldThe Questions:
1. A reflective question–What do you think of Horizons blogging? What do you like, what do you dislike? What can the UI Horizons Team do to help improve the blogging experience?

 A) I think the blogging experience has been great. It is easy enough and really doesn’t take much time (if i would just do it!!!). My dislikes are the fact that this site does not allow html codes. If you have ever had a MySpace account or something similar, you get to design your page, to your liking with thousands of different codes. It makes it fun and more individual. I also agree with K/J in their response that it would be nice to be able to use a picture of our area for our header (probably not their exact words but you get the idea). Also this site does not allow certain picture files to be uploaded. For instance I have a blackjack, camera phone, and it takes pretty good pictures, but once I send it to my computer and then try to upload it to this site it won’t take it. So outside of looking over our dislikes and seeing if they are reasonable and fixable, I am not sure how the team can improve. Oh, I do like the idea of the weekly questions, this could be fun!!!!

2. A scavenger hunt question (visit other community blogsites to find this answer) What is a PUG Mark and in which community would you find them?

A:) A pug mark (or pugmark) is what the print of a tiger paw is called. So, if you were out in the jungle and saw the tracks of a tiger, to appear oh-so-smart!, you would say “Hey, look! Pugmarks.”

This was copied and pasted from the Kendrick & Juliaetta site.

If I ever go to the jungle, or the zoo, I will remember this!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Learn something new everyday!!!!!!!!! Thanks guys:)

So that is it for now, I have answered the questions and I will be catching up to speed here again soon.

TTYL ~~ Angie