Murdo, SD

I have extra tomato plants that I would give to the community garden or to anyone who could use them. I have mostly Large Red Cherry Tomatoes and a few Jellybean Tomatoes. Also have some Rutgers and a few other large type tomato plants. Please call Elaine Roghair at 669-2819

Another Murdo Area Horizons project is becoming a reality as the Murdo Area Volunteers are in the process of getting their program off the ground.  Michele M. and Cheryl M. have volunteered to coordinate and organize this program.  The idea behind the program is to help people with projects they can’t do on their own.  Once they know what your needs are, they can then match those needs/jobs to the list of volunteers.  Here are some examples of tasks that a person might need help with:

INSIDE EXAMPLES:  Minor house cleaning, changing light bulbs, moving or arranging furniture.

OUTSIDE EXAMPLES:  Cleaning out gutters, changing storm windows, mowing yards, shoveling snow from sidewalk, etc.

 OTHER EXAMPLES:  Rides to places in town, groceries picked up, rides to personal appointments, etc. 

The community is asked to spread the news about the Murdo Area Volunteer Program to everyone in the community.  They will be placing posters around town as a reminder that the volunteers are only a phone call away.  Please call Michele M. at 669-2553 (anytime) or Cheryl M. (evenings) at 669-2674 with your volunteer needs. 

One of the first projects include volunteers to give rides on June 3 to vote in the primary election.  Give them a call if you would like a ride!

If you would like to be one of the volunteers in the program, they will certainly take your help.  Give Michele or Cheryl a call to get your name on the list. 

DATE:  Sunday 5/18/08

PLACE:  Murdo Auditorium

TIME:  1:00 Baccalaureate…….1:30 Graduation

There will be 17 Seniors graduating from the Jones County High School on Sunday May 18, 2008!! 

There are 7 girls and 10 boys in the class of 2008, which are:

Kayde Bryan 

Earl Clements

Sarah Dowling

Shandi Feddersen

Hunter Iversen

Jared Johnson

Austin Koester

Taylor Michalek

Karlee Moore

PJ Pappas

Shelby Peters

Kelli Pol

Nichole Roghair

Cole Stoner

Marcus Trumbo

Katie Van Dam

William White Buffalo

The class motto is:  “Life brings tears, smiles and memories.  The tears dry, the smiles fade, but the memories last forever.”

The class flower is:  Purple lily.   

The class colors are:  Purple and Silver.  

The Murdo Area Horizons are very proud of the class of 2008 for their accomplishments and have only good wishes for their futures.   We also would like to share a quote from a former South Dakota high school and college graduate:

“You are educated.  Your certification is in your degree.  You may think of it as the ticket to the good life.  Let me ask you to think of an alternative.  Think of it as your ticket to change the world.  ~Tom Brokaw” 

 We had a VERY successful evening of training for our Murdo Area blog on Tuesday evening.  There were a total of nine people there for the training, and we were able to help each of them register as new users.  Since the training on Tuesday—there has already been one comment and one post done by the new users!   

I would like to thank all of the new users for coming to our blog training open house.  The training would not have been a success without each of you.  I would also like to thank those who helped with the details to make this training session possible.  A big thank you goes to Gary and the Jones County school for allowing us to use the tech room and their internet access.  A HUGE thank you to Kit for setting up the laptops along with making sure we had the correct connection to the school’s internet service.  Also, a big thank you to Jewell for getting the computers to use for the evening along with a thank you to Dan O. for taking them back to Rapid City for us.  Thank you to those who were there to help with the training, which included Kevin, Anita, Kit, Lori and Jim. 

Last but not forgotten is a big THANK YOU to those who baked cookies, Lori who provided water, Dan O. for the Horizon tablets and to the Murdo Area Horizon group for donating the “big” door prize of $20.00 in Murdo Bucks. 

We are now officially working to “Change Murdo” by getting the canisters into several of the businesses and printing an article about them in the Murdo Coyote, which is our weekly newspaper.  Here is part of that article: 

The idea behind the “Change Murdo” campaign is to ask folks to donate any loose change (coins) they receive when shopping in town.  For example, if you go to a Murdo business that has a canister and spend $16.72 and pay with a $20 bill, you would then get three dollars and .28 cents back.($3.28)  You could put the .28 cents in our canister if you choose to donate.

Another example given in the article was if you were paying by check instead of cash.  The article also stated that the money collected from our “Change Murdo” canisters will be funding the “Welcome U to Murdo” project that Horizons is also starting.  Murdo used to have a welcome committee in the past and would like to get this started again so that we can officially welcome new residents to the Murdo Area. 

As some of you may know, the “Change Murdo” idea actually came from one of the other Horizon communities (Presho).  Altogether there are 21 Horizon I and II communities, and I know that we have gotten ideas and shared ideas with several of these Horizon communities.