Troy, ID

Let’s thank Shishona Thurston for making the effort to travel all the way to Boise in May to get certified to write grants for Troy’s community work. Troy Horizons paid for her registration and travel expenses to do this. Michele Vachon is working with Rune Frossmo, the owner of the Old High School, to find grant money for the renovation, and now Shishona will be able to help her.

Shishona has also helped organize work parties at the Old High School and a community meeting on June 12th with facilitator Jim Witham to help the entire community (different organizations and segments of the population) think about how they want to use the Old High School. Moreover, working with the Troy Historical Society, she helped put together a T-shirt for this amazing project (coming soon), so that everyone can show their pride and commitment to making this vision a reality!

Thanks Shishona!

Wow.  What excitement!  This project is such a great benefit to the community.  Several people attended the workday and we got a lot done.  Most of the old boiler has been cut away and a lot of old wiring was taken out.  The girls showers had already been demolished and we hauled out all of the rubbish from this.  It is hard to imagine having to use those showers.  We were given a tour of the building and perspective plans.  What a gem to have!

Future workdays are scheduled for every Saturday this summer (excluding playground workday - July 11 and Troy Days - July 19)  A BBQ is planned for next Saturday, June 14.  Come help out and enjoy some food!

Rune Frossmo, the owner of the Old High School, is now back in town.  He is very excited about giving this building back to the community in whatever form the community wants.  The first step in this process has been dedicated to the Troy Historical Society.  They have been given the lower level of the Old HS to call their own and work is in progress to get their area completed.  In the meantime, Horizons is going to be talking to various groups/organizations/individuals to find out how you want this building used.

With this in mind, we have invited Jim Withim to talk to us and become our facilitator to collect ideas and information.  If you would like to be included and share your thoughts, please post comments on our blog.  We would like to generate discussion in Troy on this exciting project.  If you would like to be contacted and included in this conversation the blogs will be checked regularly, or you can email me Shishona Thurston @ shishonathurston@hotmail.com

Heidi Reierson and Julie Redford, who have been key contacts for Troy Horizons are both moving out of the area.  They will be greatly missed!  The new contact information is now:       

Shishona Thurston         604 S Main, Troy, ID 83871    (208) 835-5049   shishonathurston@hotmail.com

If you would like to get involved with Horizons or have ideas for projects we can work on, please contact me!

Please visit this link to share your opinion on Troy’s water shortage and what the City of Troy should do about it:

http://www.troyidaho.net/survey.pdf

Your opinion counts, so please be sure to participate!

Action Plans!

Each of the Troy Horizons Action Teams has created a plan of action to guide future work goals for their team. These plans lay out short term goals, long term goals, potential resources, and anticipated impact for the work the team plans to accomplish. You can view these goals by clicking on the appropriate team name in the Pages menu to the right of this post.

Co-Leader, Nancy Hampel, nancmh@yahoo.com

The Entrepreneurship team will be exploring a variety of possibilities such as supporting existing business owners, encouraging entrepreneurial development, developing a small business investment club, and taking part in a cultural heritage tourism project. One other possibility that has been mentioned is the development of a community garden. We have identified a possible partner for this project, but we’d like to determine if there is enough community interest to move forward so we’d like to hear from you about this issue as well. Then next meeting for this group will be on Wednesday, November 14th from 6:30-7:30 pm at City Hall.