Faith, SD

The Faith School District is planning a community meeting to kick off a new project, “Dakota Character”.  This project promotes character development of all children in schools and in the community.  “This project will not work without the support of the community,” said Mr. Dutton at the teacher inservice on August 19th.  The meeting will be held at the school gym on Wednesday August 27th at 6:30pm. 

 For more information on the Dakota Character project click on:

http://dakotacharacter.tie.wikispaces.net/

The Sue exhibit is now in Faith!  The exhibit is the largest, most complete and best preserved Tyrannosaurus Rex ever unearthed. Don’t miss this unique opportunity to see this spectacular, full-sized cast of this dinosaur’s 42-foot long, 13-foot-high skeleton and learn more more about it’s intriguing past.

 Community Center
May 10, 2008 thru Sept. 1, 2008

Monday-Friday: 8:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m.
Saturday-Sunday: 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

The Horizon’s Fitness Committee has applied for a grant with Hamburger Helper. The grant will enable us to place new playground equipment at the Sports Complex for the children of the community to use, while their siblings are playing soccer, t-ball or baseball. We need the communities support by going onto http://www.myhometownhelper.com/ViewProject.aspx?id=41261 and commenting on why this would important in our community. We only have until March 31st for everyone to comment. You must be 18 years of age. If anyone has questions they can email speterson@takini.net for more information.

The silver easter egg was found on Saturday by Justin Haines under wood pellets south of the Faith Pool next to the propane tank. Thanks to everyone who participated in the hunt and HAPPY HUNTING for the golden egg.

We are working on having a gold and silver Easter egg hunt and also an Easter Egg Hunt for the kids.

The Easter Egg Hunt for the kids will take place on Saturday March 22nd at 11:00am in the City Park. We would like to have special prizes in each age division for the kids. If there is a business that would like to donate something large and then businesses to donate small items that would get them into your store after the hunt. Some ideas that were mentioned have been candy bars, ice cream cones, coins or even a balloon or toy. For the bigger prizes it could be anything savings bond, a toy or anything.

The Gold and Silver Easter Egg hunt will start on the 10th of March and the silver egg will be hid the first week and the gold the second week. All businesses that donate to the baskets will receive clues to hand out to customers.

Deb Brown
Phone 605-967-2261
Fax 605-967-2266
faith@faithsd.com

Shawn Peterson
Phone 605-538-4399 ext
Cell 605-863-2267
Fax 605-538-4130.
speterson@takini.net

The community will be hosting a informational meeting on February 26th at 5:00pm until 6:00pm at the Frontier Room in the Prairie Oasis Mall. This meeting is to get events happening in Faith and to involve everyone in the community. There are alot of GREAT ideas out there and they need to put into action and this is where we need your help. Some of the ideas that are being discussed are the Easter Promotion which will bring back the popular GOLDEN EASTER EGG HUNT and also a kids easter egg hunt with great prizes. The meeting will also involve talking about items for the next year such as Demolition Derby, Mothers Day Tea, Lady’s Day, 4th of July, Home Show with Barrel Racing and Team Roping, Halloween, Ethnic Week with Crazy Days, EMS Week, Christmas Activities, Turkey Boweling, Christmas Fair, New Years Eve with Vegas Night, Parade of Lights, and many more activities that you find exciting. These are all events that community members have showed interest in and we are asking for your input to help chamber make these possible.

It is very important that local businesses please attend to offer your in put into the activities. All of these activities could possible bring customers in your door and valuable dollars. Also it is important that all community members attend and offer you in put into what you would like to see happening in our community.

We would also like to invite all local organizations to attend, so we can all work together to make each and every event bigger and better every year.

SO COME ONE COME ALL
BUSINESS OWNERS
COMMUNITY MEMBERS
SCHOOL BOARD
CITY OF FAITH COUNCIL MEMBERS
AMBULANCE SERVICE
FIRE DEPARTMENT
STOCK SHOW COMMITTEE
ALUMNI ASSOCIATION
LADIES MEDICAL ORGANIZATION
FAITH STUDENT COUNCIL
FAITH HIGH SCHOOL RODEO CLUB
MEADE CO 4-H RODEO COMMITTEE
LOCAL CHURCH GROUPS
CAT TEAM
AND ANYONE INTERESTED IN THE BETTERMENT OF FAITH AREA.

From February 11th to the 14th, the FHS Student Council sold and delivered Valentine grams to the students at Faith school.  This is a new project for the student council only in its 2nd year as an SDSCA (South Dakota Student Council Association) member, and they did well.  The total profit from the project was $125 which will be donated to the Children’s Miracle Network. This is an ongoing project of the SDSCA and at last year’s leadership conference $18,113 was donated by all participating student councils in SD. This year’s donation will be presented at a ceremony with all other student council’s from the around the state at the SDSCA State Leadership Conference in Pierre on April 1st 2008.  Great job guys!

The previously cancelled grand opening of the Faith fitness center has officially been set for this Wednesday, February 20th at 4:00 pm.  After the ribbon cutting, the Horizon’s meeting will be at 5:00 pm at the Faith Community Center meeting room. Hope to see everyone there!!!

 Every month, we are asked questions and need to blog on them.  If you have anything at all to add or to answer these questions, please comment below and help us out!!!        Thanks.

Please choose one or two questions in EACH category to address on your blog:

Category 3: Taking action on poverty

What kinds of concrete steps are being taken by your community to address poverty?

Category 7: Taking action on leadership

How has your community leadership expanded?

ü Are more people participating in leadership?

ü Are different kinds of people (representing more sectors or parts of the community) now participating in community leadership?

ü Does the community leadership reflect the community’s demographic profile?

ü Are more low income people participating in community leadership?What changes have been made in the way your community recruits and trains new leaders? Sustains existing leaders?