Silver Valley, ID

On January 7th 2008, Chuck Wardwell from the SVEDC, spoke at our monthly community Horizons meeting. Chuck informed us that the SVEDC was at the beginning stages of trying to open a Job Corps facility here in the valley. The facility is about 5-6 years out providing that the stars and planets line up correctly and everything goes just right!!

Why is this so exciting you may ask? Well, once again, one of the action ideas from our community was “trade school”!!! This is working out just great!! Things seem to be falling in our laps!! And what better way to go than a Job Corp?!!!

So we are giving them our full support of course and crossing our fingers. YAY!!!

Our next community Horizons meeting is scheduled for Feb. 11, 2008 at the H&W conference room at 35 Wildcat Way, Kellogg. Everyone is invited to attend.

Well what to say?! The local community members that make up the Resource Committee have been hard at work for quite some time. Their goal is to make sure that all of the communitie’s resources are up to date and that the community is awareof them. Hence the name of the committee!! They meet usually once a month and faces at the table vary depending on if new agencies have come into the community or who can make it and who can’t because of busy work schedules.

Well full speed ahead though for this little group when Horizons came in to the picture for the Silver Valley!! Not only because they had some backup now but one of our communites action ideas was a Resource Guide of some sort. Now they are close to completing their first edition of their resource guide, which will be in a magazine type form and will be free to everybody. The idea is to make sure there are several copies at places like doctor’s offices, other businesses, local service agencies in the community etc.

So long story short, they are almost there and wish them luck!!