Who is Angie Vanhoozer?
You may have noticed her walking around town, peering into old buildings, and poking at shrubbery….She’s Bovill’s graduate student summer intern from the University of Idaho! Angie is a student in Bioregional Planning and also has a degree in landscape architecture. After gathering background information and meeting and talking to Bovill residents in the past few weeks, Angie has come up with many ideas for improving Bovill, which she presented at the Bovill Horizons graduation celebration on June 21st at the community center. She surveyed community members to determine what the community would like to see accomplished and which items should take priority. So far, it looks like there is a lot of interest in seeing better signage for the community and in renovating the old corner gas station into some sort of a cooperative business/community space for coffee and groceries.
Angie is also investigating the Rails to Trails program and has been networking with various regional resource providers to determine the best way to make things happen.
This internship opportunity came about because the Bovill Horizons Community Pride group saw a need and made a request to the University of Idaho Extension for a student intern.