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This is us during our initial blog training in February. We had fun learning how to blog, and even though some of us look a little more confused than others, you can tell by scrolling through our blog site that we really did learn a lot.
Being a 4-H member involves learning life skills by doing life skills! These Handy-Thrifty Helpers 4-H club members did just that on Sunday, Feb 3, when they met in Egeland for their meeting and project work. Work began on sewing potholders, skirts, pajama pants and pillows. Making an electrical switch was also accomplished by 4-Her’s that day. Karly H, Adam H, Brenna D, Kayla D, Coty H, Casey H, Ben L, Traci L, Jill L, Jessi L, Rachael L, Corinna K, Vicki L and Danielle W all enjoyed working on their projects and were encouraged by leaders and volunteers Deb Odegaard, Dave Lagein, Gail Harder, Laura Dease, Lisa Held, Tina Koehn and Grandma Harder. Quite a fun active day!
Check out the new Rock Lake website. Another accomplishment thanks to the Horizons Program. It’s amazing all the businesses in the community, that you don’t realize, until you look at the list. If you or someone you know has a business that is not listed on the website let me know, so it can be added. The main ones behind this project are Eugene Norheim and Myron Jacobsen.
Let me know what you think of the new header or if you got something else to put up there to reflect our community.
This is the new beach at the city park shortly after it was done. This is one of the action ideas that came out of the study circles. It goes to show that you don’t need alot of people on a committee to get something done. The head ones of the beach are Gloria Covert, Guy Mitchell, and Brock Mitchell. When you see them, tell them, thank you.
The beach is a nice addition to the city park. Come and spend the weekend or anytime here and enjoy it.
There was over forty people, adult and youth, at the study circles. They were held in early Febuary 2007. At the study circles we learned there are many different kinds of poverty. We also learned that everyone has many skills and talants that on one knew about. By putting these skills and talents to work we are able to make many structural changes in our community and in poverty. We are able to make this a great community to live in and be a part of. We also learned that we have many leaders in our community that are very good at it. By the end of the study circle we had came up with a list of action items to act on. Of them ideas two of them are up and running already and one more will be up and running in a couple of weeks. Stay tuned to find out which one that is.
The leaders of the study circles were: Jo Ann Rodenbiker, Kelly Mitchell, Mavis Carter, Jannell Lagein, Brock Mitchell, Darrel Lagein.
These fine looking individuals represent the Horizons program in Rock Lake and there were a few individuals that were unable to attend the picture taking activity. They have been working hard to look at the poverty issues in the community. And with the poverty issue in mind they are looking at making our community a better place to live and make it inviting for a potential new comer to take a look and maybe stay awhile. Yea Team!!!!
Pictured left to right: Kelly, Cindy, Brock, Kim, Mavis, Gloria, JoAnn, Ron, Danny and Guy. The picture was taken by Mike Savaloja on our new beach front access to the lake.
On Friday November 30 the Rock Lake ambulance service went to the Rock Lake school. They told the students & staff what they do when on a call. The ambulance staff showed them how a patient is taken out of a vehicle that was is a crash. The patients were two volunteers from the audience, 
one had a broken arm and the other
was seriously injured, 
who had to be all packaged up.
The audience even got to see how the defib can be used to monitor the heart. At the end students & staff were able to look over all the different equipment that the ambulance uses. Now if they need the ambulance they will know what to except & won’t be scared.
The 26th annual fall fair 
was held today in the school gym, which
was very well attended. This is one of the many items 
that was there, with a variety of venders there, who had something for everyone. The cafe served a delicious meal in the school lunch room and served a large crowd. The fall fair was put on by the volunteer fire department and the cafe.
The community enjoyed an evening at the new beach area to the West of the park in Rock Lake. This was the show off day for one of the Horizons projects that was worked on during the summer and fall months. The event was held on a Sunday afternoon in Sept. Over 150 people from the community and surrounding areas attend the event. There was good food prepared by some awesome cooks!! Games were enjoyed by the youth and whoever was game enough to play and show up the young people. There were numerous positive comments about how nice the beach area looked . Carl Swanson was the man behind the machine that put the landscaping touches to the beach area. The park/beach is a place that if free of charge and is accessible to anyone who would like to bring their family and friends to a nice quiet place, grill some burgers and enjoy the scenery. Bring the binoculars and watch the numerous species of birds on the lake. What better place to spend a day at the beach!!!! 