Bovill, ID

Rules:

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

Teaching the Commons: Place, Pride, and the Renewal of Local Schooling - Paul Theobald

The 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? 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?

Volunteers on snow plows ,bob cats and shovels worked all day Saturday cleaning up the streets , cutting back the burms and clearing peoples driveways . Our thanks goes out to them.

Did you know Bovill became a Community of promise in 1996.
At that time we promised a safe town , a good education and to keep our youth involved in city activities . I feel Horizons is helping to keep those promises in place and will continue to do so.

Bovill Horizons members met with BIG on Monday to plan a Saint Patrick Day Dinner. Corn Beef and Cabbage with boiled pototes and carrots there will also be a nice pot roast for anyone who doesn’t like corn beef . Of course there will also be a verity of salads and desserts. Kaylie Kline and Elizabeth Stradley from our youth group will be doing the decorating and making the punch can’t wait to see what they do.Our youth group will be helping with the serving. The date for this grand event is March 16th. Don’t miss it . Wear Green.

Having a daycare in Bovill will give children a safe environment and give parents some peace of mind. The day care action team has met with the Presbyterian Church and with city council members to discuss plans for a new childcare in Bovill. Tammy Hoisington wrote a draft business plan and ran it by our Evenstart instructor, John Yegge. Now it’s time to move forward by looking for grant money. Anyone is welcome to help with this effort!

Hope Hobbs talked to Potlatch about vacant buildings and found out they will sell them, so they are available for potential businesses.

We are working to establish a gas station/minimart in town. There is one in Centralia that is funded through different grants. We sent four community members to the Idado Nonprofit Development Center’s grant writing workshop to find out how to find and apply for grants for a new minimart and for the nonprofit daycare. The grant writing instructor encouraged this and says it’s very possible. A new minimart would address poverty in several ways: it would open up jobs; it would save on gas (now when you need a gallon of milk in the evening, you have to drive ten miles to the next town) and it would keep money in town. – Bovill loses dollars every time someone drives out of town to find services.

Our action teams have the arrows going in the same direction! The Economic team’s work is connected to the community pride team’s work because a clean and green town is more welcoming to new business and activity.

We are getting the word out better about opportunities for community betterment and help for those in need. For example, we’ve distributed fliers about the Evenstart Program
This spreads knowledge of resources that help people in poverty, such the food bank, fuel assistance, and transportation assistance for the elderly, and computer classes. Please help us keep the community informed: If you have something to announce on the blog or in our newsletter, contact Shirley Easterday, Tammy Hoisington, Sabrina Myers, Erin Stevenson, Hope Hobbs, or anyone else in Horizons.

Paul Kimmel from Avista will be coming to our next steering committee meeting on January 21st to discuss possible funding sources to keep the community center’s utilities going. Please come and hear what’s going on!

Our community seems to be thinking more about ways of improving Bovill rather than just having a defeatist attitude of “this is just where i live” and “things won’t change” We are thinking more about possibilities.

The Community Pride action team hopes in the next 2-3 years to create some beautiful areas in town, places where people can enjoy trees and flowers and sit and relax on community benches. Next summer they hope to partner with the city to do some planting and landscaping along new sidewalks. They have worked with BIG (The nonprofit Bovill Improvement Group) about planting trees. The Community Pride team acquired permission from landowners and from the city (they discussed it with mayor) for improvements. We want people to take pride in our town by creating a more beautiful Bovill. We want people to see and show others what we can accomplish!

Gary and Karen Eggers, Georgia Hunter, and Paula Winter
Fall 2007

Karen and Gary Eggers, Georgia Hunter, and Tara Jones
Fall 2007

Nonprofit Community Childcare Center

1. We have started the ground work for a place to have the commuity daycare with a backup facility, which their liability insurance would cover the daycare and customers.
2. Contacted a person with knowledge of starting, running a daycare, and set up a nonprofit organization.
3. We have contacted Evenstart to partner with us.

Social services and Assistance to needy families.

1. Looking into bringing in more services to our community.
2. Making sure members of the community know of times and dates that social services events will be taking place.

Racism

1. Looking for ways to ways educate our community on cultural diversity.

Creating a business friendly community.

Teen jobs.

Enterpreneurship Development-National resources.

1. Looking at using clay, from nearby land, for a pottery, arts and crafts shop that we would like to open.

Adult Education (GED)

Youth and Adult Leadership Skill Development

Early Childhood Education and Care

Town Clean-Up

1. Helping residents dispose of unwanted cars.
2. To continue community clean-up days.

Improving Self-Image

1. Plan to repair a fence that is on one of our main street in town and paint a mural.
2. Would like to paint all of our local businesses red like we did in the early 1970’s that gained us national recognition in a national newspaper back east.
3. Looking at planting trees and flowers along some of the main streets.

Historical Buildings Structures

To be addressed at a later date.

We had a big turn out for our community rally with David Burle! Bovill had 73 people attend and we concluded our community vision.

1. Community Pride
Co-chairs: Gary and Karen Eggars

2. Leadership Developement & Lifelong Learning
Co-chair: David and Subrina Bryington

3. Creative Economic Opporrytunties
Co-chairs: Hope Hobbs and Jon Stevenson

4. Family Friendly, Close-Knit Community
Co-chairs: Tammy Hoisington and Sally Bowey

Bovill has many outdoor activities for any age groups.

During the summer months we have three campgrounds Moosecreek, is less than three miles out of Bovill, that has a beautiful lake with a large variety of fish, along with established campsites and restrooms . Eastfork has nonestablished campsites which has many streams that are great for trout fishing and large meadows for game and bird watching. The third campground is a RV park located on the edge of Bovill with electrical, water and sewer hook ups. Many different berries are nearby, such as huckleberries and blackcaps.

During the fall months we have many areas for hunting, fishing, and wooded areas for outdoor activities.

During the spring months there are many different types of wild mushrooms to be found in the new grassed and wooded areas.

During our winter months we have snow that is great for cross country skiers, snowmobiles, ice fishing, and for the young at heart a good old fashioned snowball fight! Along with our Christmas lights that go up around the middle of November in the City Park down town.