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Naples Community Group meeting Monday |
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February 5, 2012 |
By Theresa Wardle
First, (in case you only read my opening line),
I thought I’d remind you of our upcoming
Naples
Community Group meeting at 6 p.m. Monday,
February 6, in the Naples Fire Station Community
Room. Please feel free to stop by and check us
out if you haven’t already.
Second, I wanted to thank everyone who helped
and our supported our many activities in 2011.
What a wonderful first year for our Naples
Community Group!
We met and brainstormed, planned, took chances,
volunteered, worked together, made new friends,
learned from experiences and basically had a
great time following our mission statement: To
promote the Naples community by encouraging
social, educational and economic activities. We
also officially became an unincorporated
non-profit organization and opened a bank
account. It is exciting to think of all the
possibilities in the future in relation to
supporting our families, our elementary school
and our local businesses.
After our very busy fall and holiday schedule,
it was nice to step back and take a deep breath.
However, with spring around the corner, we are
starting to make plans and have begun outlining
some activities for 2012. In our January
meeting, we proposed the following activities:
2nd Annual Easter Egg Hunt for elementary age
students - spring
2nd Annual Community Yard Sale/Community Potluck
(possibly combined) – early summer
2nd Annual Naples Italian Festival – fall
3rd Annual Naples Holiday Festival – winter
Next Monday, we hope to discuss these activities
in greater detail and possibly begin outlining
some dates. We’d love to hear your ideas if you
are available (okay, that’s my last pitch for
the upcoming meeting).We are also looking for
people that may be interested in serving as
officers for the upcoming year.
Of course, our Naples Community Food Cupboard
continues to provide meals to individuals and
families in need every Thurs. from 2pm to 4pm,
thanks to the help of our wonderful volunteers
and donations from generous folks. In our Jan.
meeting, Shirley Anderson graciously agreed to
officially lead the Food Cupboard. We continue
to develop this program and are looking for your
thoughts/suggestions on how we may best serve
people and on ways we may increase our
donations.
A few folks have made some significant dollar
donations (thank you), but food items are going
fast and we need help with generating more
resources. Please feel free to respond to this
e-mail with any thoughts/suggestions.
Our Naples Magnet Elementary School is doing
great! Hopefully, y’all have heard about or even
had a chance to stop by and witness the benefits
of their weekly magnet classes on Wednesday
afternoons, as well as some of the all school
activities such as the recent workshops led by
Missoula Children’s Theater’s actors. Sounds
like the school staff are also developing ideas
for future group activities. One of the goals of
the Magnet Program is to continue to increase
enrollment at Naples School to lessen the
likelihood of being closed in the future. Please
help spread the word about our wonderful rural
school and all it has to offer.
Finally, if you haven’t already, please take a
look at some of the photos from our 2nd Annual
Naples Holiday Festival last December on our
website www.thenaplescommunity.com. We are still
looking for someone who has the talent and time
to help develop our website.
That’s it for now (… this would have been a
great time to remind you of Monday’s meeting,
but I promised I was done pitching it). Please
feel free to contact me and thanks for reading
our news!
Theresa Wardle
(208) 290-1233
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