Chisholm Spring Litter Pick-Up

The City of Chisholm will conduct it’s Spring Litter Pick-Up on Saturday, May 7th from 10:00 till Noon.

Pick up bags, vests, gloves, and area assignments at the Senior Citizens Center before 10:00 or register prior to Saturday with Tammy at City Hall 254-7909.

Sponsors are the Chisholm Youth Center , American Legion , and the Chisholm Senior Citizens Center.

Chisholm Horizon Areas are the West Entrance and Exit and the Iron Man Park. We are meeting at 10:00 in the Iron Man Parking lot near the West Entrance to town.

Come and join us for a couple hours on Saturday May 7th to help with the Spring Clean-Up.

Financial Literacy Classes

YOU’RE INVITED

YOUTH FINANCIAL LITERACY

            SPONSORED BY CHISHOLM HORIZONS

         PRESENTED BY THE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA EXTENSION

Chisholm Horizons, together with The University of Minnesota Extension, is offering FREE YOUTH FINANCIAL LITERACY training. The Financial Literacy education is available in a “train the trainer” format.

The training will consist of: Elementary Age Youth – Use children’s literature to teach financial literacy to pre-K and elementary age students and their parents. The train the trainer trainings are for pre-K and elementary teachers, Head Start and ECFE staff, children’s librarians, etc. working with children and parents.

Middle School Age Youth – Provide financial literacy learning opportunities for youth on a variety of topics in both formal and non- formal educational settings. Train the trainer trainings for middle school teachers or community youth serving agencies, including 4-H, Boy & Girls Scouts, Boys & Girls Clubs, after school programs, religious organizations, etc.

 

Elementary Age Youth training: Monday, March 21st
Middle School Age Youth training: Tuesday, March 22nd

Time: (both nights)    4:30pm to 8:00 pm

Where: (both nights)    Range Center, Inc.
1001 NW 8th Ave.  Chisholm, MN 55719
Free food-n-beverage will be provided. Attend one or both nights. CEU credits available:    .3 CEU per night or .6 CEU for both nights for $10/person (Payable at the door) A “certificate of attendance” will be provided.
Please RSVP by Monday, March 14th (Please include name, # attending and phone #.)

Email: chisholm.horizons@yahoo.com      Marketa Anderson (218) 254-7628 or Karen Amistadi (218) 969-1310
Horizons is a community leadership program aimed at reducing poverty in small rural and reservation communities (population less than 5,000) faced with economic decline and demographic change. Chisholm Horizons, which began in October 2006, is a group of local citizens formed through The University of Minnesota Extension/ Minnesota Horizons with the startup funded by the Northwest Area Foundation. Two of Chisholm Horizons aims are to help overcome
financial barriers and to promote youth activities.

Summer Rec Scholarship Project = 41

The magic number this year turned out to be 41. That’s the number of children able to attend the Chisholm Summer Rec Program with the funding from the Chisholm Horizon Scholarship Project.  That’s nearly a 33% increase over last years scholarship numbers.   Chisholm Horizons also made a donation to ensure the children using the Summer Rec would have nourishment available during this 6 week program.  Thanks to all who made this possible.

Summer Rec. scholarships

Summer Rec Discounts for Kids on  “Free and Reduced Lunch”

Chisholm Horizons                                                                                                                       Chisholm Horizons is a local citizen group formed through Minnesota Horizons with the startup funded by the Northwest Area Foundation.  Horizons promotes community leadership for poverty reduction.  Two of Chisholm Horizons aims are to help overcome financial barriers and to promote youth activities.  Chisholm Horizons has a scholarship program for qualified kids to join in the Chisholm Summer Recreation Program.

Chisholm Summer Rec Program
Chisholm Summer Rec Program runs this year in Chisholm for 6 weeks in June and July.   It is available to Chisholm and Balkan youth in the K-6th grades.  The Early Registration fee this year is $40.00 per child. After June 7 the fee is $50.00.

Federal Free and Reduced Lunch Program
The Free and Reduced Lunch Program is a Federal Program for families who meet certain Poverty Income Guidelines.

Chisholm Summer Rec Fee   “Horizons Discount”
Those Chisholm and Balkan children who have qualified for the “Free and Reduced Lunch Program” at their schools also qualify for a “Horizons Discount” deducted from the regular Summer Rec fee.

Please call 254-2960 to apply for discount or for further information.                             Openings for Discount are limited.

This Horizons Project is partially funded by donations from The Field of Screams and the Margaret Polenik Memorial.

Chisholm MS Walk May 2

MS Society Fundraising Event

Chisholm
May 2, 2010

Jim’s Sports Club Bar & Grill
108 Lake St., Chishom, MN

Registration time
11 a.m. to 1 p.m.

Route information
Walkers can begin walking at 11 a.m., after they have checked in.

Walk options
Walkers can choose a 1 or 5 mile route.

Getting to Jim’s Sports Club & Grill
From US-169 S.
Take the US-169 S. ramp to Hibbing. Turn left at US-169 S. Turn right at Longyear Lake Blvd/US-169. Turn left at E. Lake St./US-169. Jim’s Sports Club Bar & Grill will be on your right.

From US-169 N.
Take MN 73 N/US-169 N. exit toward Chisholm. Continue on Lake St. W./US-169. Jim’s Sports Club Bar & Grill will be on your left.

More information at : www.walkmsmn.org

Community Spring Litter Pick-Up May 1

The Chisholm Youth Center is hosting the annual Community Spring Litter pick-up on May 1, 2010 in conjunction with “Helping Hands Day”. They are looking for groups or individuals to volunteer to pick litter throughout our community and parks. You may pick up bags, gloves and vests at the Chisholm Senior Center starting at  8:00  am on May 1^st. The litter pick-up will be from 9:00 am to 12:00 pm. The KSKJ is providing a lunch at the Senior Center for the volunteers from 12:00 pm to 1:30 pm.

To sign up or if you have any questions, please contact the Parks and Recreation office at 254-7909.

Youth Center/Horizons Collect for Shelters

The Chisholm Youth Center and Chisholm Horizons are teaming up to collect supplies for the Hibbing Homeless Shelter and Bill’s House in Virginia.

They will accept donations until June 5th at the Chisholm Youth Center , 315 W Lake St. They are open for donations on Wed, Thurs, Fri from 4-8 pm.

Items being accepted include Household Items – new/slightly used pots, pans, dishes, sheets, pillowcases, towels, dishcloths as well as Hygiene Items – shampoo, conditioner, paper towels, toilet paper, laundry detergent, bodywash and cleaning supplies.

For more information, please contact Gus at (218)254-2960.

AEOA

In 1964, President Lyndon Johnson signed the Economic Opportunity Act and, in essence, declared a “war on poverty.”  Community officials, service providers, schools, and neighbors came together to plan and implement programs and services to help low-income people and called it “Community Action.”
The Arrowhead Economic Opportunity Agency (AEOA) was incorporated in April, 1965, as a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization and established as a Community Action Program (CAP) for the northeast Minnesota counties of St. Louis, Lake, and Cook. Service delivery for some programs has extended to the four neighboring counties of Aitkin, Carlton, Itasca, and Koochiching.
Currently, AEOA employs more than 350 full- and part-time staff and utilizes more than a thousand volunteers divided among five major departments: Arrowhead Transit, Head Start, Housing, Employment and Training, and Senior Services.

If You need help with weatherization, energy assistance, refinance counseling or homeless services , please visit www.aeoa.org. They have many more programs available for those in Northeast Minnesota.

2009 MCN/MCF Joint Conference in St. Paul

On November 5 & 6, 2009, the Minnesota Council of Nonprofits/Minnesota Council on Foundations (MCN/MCF) had their joint annual conference at the RiverCentre in St. Paul.  The University of Minnesota Extensions/Horizons Program was generous enough to invite past and present Horizons communities to attend the conference.  Marketa Anderson, Gus Cronberg and I decided to make the trip to see what it was all about.  The conference was very interesting and exciting!  (Three people from a small town on the Iron Range in the “Big City” – WhooHoo!  Look out St. Paul!)   Thursday morning, all the Horizons communities that attended met at the RiverCentre at 8:30gam for a Continental breakfast.  We spent the rest of the morning with the Horizon communities and a 4 member “funder panel” sharing each community’s successes and/or successes in progress.  It was very interesting to hear everyone’s stories and project in which they were working on.  The “funder panel” was made up of national, state and regional representatives who offered tips for accessing resources and answered any questions we may have had.  After wrapping up with Q&A’s, we broke for lunch. 

At 1pm, the first conference sessions began.  Many different “break-out sessions” were available to us; too many for the three of us to attend them all.  We each selected a session to go to, broke up and went in different directions.  Some of the “break-out sessions” were helpful and some were not.  They were all very interesting to attend.  At 4:30, once all the “break-out sessions” were complete, an opening conference reception was held with hors d’oeuvres and drinks being served.  Once we left, we were on our own in the “Big City”!

Friday, there were “break-out sessions” all day.  Again, we chose to attend different sessions of interest through out the day.  At noon, there was a networking lunch and presentation of the 2009 Nonprofit Mission and Excellance Awards in the Grand Ballroom.  The food was excellent and the recognition ceremony was very interesting.  It was interesting to hear how these nonprofit organizations are helping others.

At 3:30pm, the conference was officially over.  They had a closing reception where again they served hors d’oeuvres and drink.  There was a debriefing of the Horizons communities and we were on our way back to our respected communities. 

It was a great experience and we would like to thank Monica, Cindy, Jessica, and Bjorn for all their help and guidance both before and during the conference and for giving us the opportunity to attend the conference.  Thank you all so much!

Karen Amistadi 

Chisholm “Field of Screams” 2009

It’s nearing Fall in Northern Minnesota and once again time to get ready for the Halloween Extravaganza of 2009.  Most of you that live in the Northland know that I’m talking about The Chisholm Field of Screams.  They have a change of venue this year.  They are moving to the Minnesota Discovery Center formerly known as Ironworld on Hwy 169 in Chisholm.  This year’s ghoulish performances will be on the evenings of Oct 22-25 and Oct 29-31.  Plans and changes are still in progress, so keep up to date by visiting us often at www.fieldofscreams.info/index.html.

Last year 17 grants, totaling $12,000, were made possible from the proceeds. Some of these were the Chisholm Youth Center, Chisholm Little League, Chisholm Horizons, and SWOP, a group that teaches life skills to area youth.

Any questions about volunteering can be answered at

The Chisholm Area Chamber of Commerce

223 West Lake Street, Chisholm, Minnesota 55719

(218) 254-7930 | info@chisholmchamber.com

Visit us at http://chisholmchamber.com/