PR Training

PR training is now in session in White Salmon. There are 11 participants from the local area. Topics covered so far are blogs, digital cameras and downloading digital photos and video. Everyone is enthusiastic to learn and bring their new skills to their communities.

PR training will take place in Goldendale, July 1 from 9 am to 4 pm. Plenty of folks have registered for that.

Pictured above are Goldendale community members that participated in the first session in White Salmon: Kimmy Meinecke, Elsie David and Bob Seborer.

Supported through the Horizons Project - N.W. Area Foundation.

Gabcast Test: Anthony Dobson talks with Pamela Roberts

This Gabcast test shows that you can use phones and cell phones to record interviews of community members. The recordings are stored on Gabcast.com for you. There is a 30 minute limit to this free service.

By clicking on the title of this post you can access the gabcast.com website.

Emily Randall Talks About LeadershipPlenty Training

Emily Randall of Goldendale, WA shares her experiences with the LeadershipPlenty training through the Horizons Project. This training was supported through the N.W. Area Foundation and Washington State University Extension.

Click on the title of this post to access more information about the LeadershipPlenty curriculum.

Goldendale Horizons/LeadershipPlenty Public Relations Class

Shown are the participants in the Horizons Project leadership training on July 1, 2007 in Goldendale, WA. This training was remarkable from several perspectives, not the least of which was that it was held in the local bowling alley because the business provided wireless Internet access. Learning about online communication systems while watching community members bowl was a unique and fun experience.

Before this session, the training participants attended an event that featured mounted shooters riding horses around an arena shooting at balloons. They were dressed in full western regalia, in addition to shooting black powder pistols. This provided a great opportunity to capture interesting photos and video interviews for this website. This day might be one of the most unusual technology training sessions ever held in the United States!

Goldendale Horizon Media Workshop

This photo shows contestants anxiously awaiting their chance to compete in the Washington Mounted Shooters event at the Klickitat County Fairgrounds (Goldendale) Sunday, July 1, 2007. This photo was taken as part of a public relations training session that was held at the fairgrounds and in which participants practiced community reporting through photography and video.

Goldendale, WA, Klickitat Fairgrounds Host Mounted Shooters

Mounted Shooters in Goldendale,WA on July 1, 2007.

A first picture taken during at the Goldendale Horizons Network
public relations training day.

CoRE Action Team Report

• CoRE (Community Resource Exchange) Action Team
  Activity Report
  
  Background
  The CoRE Action Team was formed at the Goldendale Horizons Action Forum on Saturday 2/24/07. Its goal is to enhance communication and mutual aid among the people of the Goldendale community by developing a community information exchange center(s). The CoRE service area includes the city of Goldendale, the remainder of zip code 98620 and zip code 98613 (Centerville).
  
  Projects
  
  Web Site - A web site will be established that contains links to services, goods and events in the service area.
  Status
  *A data base of links to resources, tagged with potential link categories has been created. *As of 5/29/07 there were 275 resources listed in the data base. Expansion of the list is ongoing.
  *Definition of link categories is in work.
  *Definition of host requirements is in work.
  *Selection of a free server to host the web site is in work.
  
  Yahoo Group - A Yahoo group will be established that will serve as a 'Forum for Community Dialog'.
  Status
  *A Yahoo Group called goldendalechats has been created.
  *This is a moderated group. All posts to goldendalechats must be approved by the moderator.
  *Ground rules have been established to define acceptable input.
  *Nine members of the Team have accepted invitations to join the group. Expansion of the membership base must be accomplished.
  *The Yahoo Group format includes folders for web links, data bases, calendars and other functions. Input to these folders is to be determined.
  *There are currently no discussions in progress.
  
  Bulletin Board - A bulletin board will be set up to serve those who have no or limited internet access and those who are uncomfortable with computer usage.
  Status
  *A bulletin board has been donated to the team for this purpose.
  *Refurbishing of this bulletin board is in work.
  *Two sites - Coyote Coffee Shop and The General Store - have been selected for the display. The bulletin board will be alternated between these two sites biweekly.
  *A format for information display has been defined. One side will contain lists of contact information for community services, goods and events. The other side will contain posts by members of the community. Bulletin board contents will be updated and maintained by the CoRE Team Bulletin Board Committee.
  
  Publicity - A publicity committee has been established to advertise the services offered by the CoRE Action Team.
  Status
  *Research on ways to advertise the Community Resource Exchange on the radio, in the newspaper and on community bulletin boards has been done.
  *Discussion on advertising content is on going.

LeadershipPlenty Training

LeadershipPlenty is a program developed by the Pew Partnership for Civic Change and is being offered in Goldendale through the Horizons program of the Northwest Area Foundation. It is designed to equip citizens with skills like effective communication, conflict management, and partnership building that they can use to work together as community leaders to reduce poverty.
Training dates started with group one on May 10 and runs through May 24-training is Thursday and Saturday; group 2 starts May 23 and runs through June 6-training is Tuesday and Wednesday and group 3 will start May 24 running through July 19-training every Thursday evening. This gives participants several opportunities to attend all training modules!
Registrations are still being accepted at the WSU-Klickitat County Extension office.

Linda Comments on Training

LeadershipPlenty in Moses Lake

Linda and Ava review curriculum over morning coffee.