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| Interfaith Community Outreach Home Rehabilitation in 2008.
ICO Home Rehab completed eight home rehabilitation projects in 2008. Four projects were assessed with the work to be completed in 2009. During the year Home Rehab established a strong working relationship with The Home Depot store in Kitty Hawk by joining their Gifts in Kind Program. This program allows ICO to receive building materials that are being inventoried out of Home Depot at no expense to ICO. During the last six months of 2008 ICO took nearly twenty receipts of materials from Home Depot as part of this program. These materials have been used in Home Rehab projects and in the United Methodist Church support program for Hurricane Katrina flood victims in Mississippi and Louisiana. Other local companies helped with storage.
If you are interested in helping on any of these projects, please contact ICO at 252 480-0070. | |
| Follow-up on Albemarle Mental Health Center
The board of directors of the Albemarle Mental Health Center voted unanimously at an emergency meeting Wednesday night to ask the state to take over its administration.
Board attorney John Morrison said the state has agreed to the request and will appoint a caretaker director by Tuesday. After a recent audit revealed that the center was broke, the board last week fired its longtime director, Charles Franklin.
On Jan. 2, it announced that it was divesting services for mental health, developmental disability and substance abuse in Camden, Chowan, Currituck, Dare, Hyde, Martin, Perquimans, Pasquotank, Tyrrell and Washington counties.Read the complete article by Catherine Kozak at http://hamptonroads.com/2009/01/state-take-over-albemarle-mental-health
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2009 Master Gardener Volunteer Training Classes
January 20th, 2009
Barco, NC
Now is a great time to complete an application for the 2009 Currituck County Master Gardener Volunteer Program Training Classes. These classes provide a broad scope of horticulture training in areas such as plant identification, organic gardening, landscape design, pest management and more. Anyone and everyone is encouraged to apply regardless of past gardening experience. Classes begin Tuesday, January 20, 2009 from 1:00pm to 4:00pm and will continue for 13 weeks. Cost for the classes is $65.00. They will be held at the new North Carolina Cooperative Extension facility on highway 158. If you are interested in becoming a Master Gardener call the NC Cooperative Extension office at 232-2262 to receive an application or print one off our website www.currituck.ces.nc.us and click on Lawn & Garden on the left.
Event Location
120 Community Way
Barco, NC 27917
Contact
Jan Perry-Weber at (252) 232-2262
Event Sponsor
NC Cooperative Extension
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Girl Scout Cookie Rally in Currituck
Cadette Girl Scout Katie Tulowiecki guides Brownie Girl Scout Amina Jennings through a craft featuring recycled materials at the Girl Scout Cookie Rally in Currituck held on January 9. Older girls gain valuable leadership experiences through Girl Scout activities that require them to help younger Girl Scouts. Through the Girl Scout Cookie Program, girls also get the chance to lead and become cookie entrepreneurs by setting goals and creating business plans to help them reach those goals.
Brownie Girl Scout Kristi Costello and Junior Girl Scout Keimyrah Jones helped each other make a vest out of a recycled paper bag at the Currituck Cookie Rally on January 9. During the rally, the girls shared selling techniques and got excited about door-to-door order taking, which is going on now. Kristi and Keimyrah are both excited to start selling Girl Scout cookies. "Each year I work really hard to sell by going to my neighbors," says Keimyrah. Kristi says she loves Girl Scouts because she gets to "do fun stuff!"
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| Experience OBX Festival
G&W Events is currently seeking local non-profit organizations and businesses to participate in the first annual Experience OBX festival, an Outer Banks oriented event that will bring together locals, tourists, businesses, and non-profits to educate, inform and entertain visitors. The event will take place every Tuesday between Memorial Day and Labor Day at historic Roanoke Island Festival Park in Manteo, NC.
"The success of the festival is solely dependant on the response we receive from local businesses and non-profits," explains event founder Jessica Galvanek. "The potential to increase the exposure of your business or cause and to gain potential customers or donors is immense. We are fortunate to have spent many summers together as a family in the Outer Banks, and now, we are trying to give back to the community by hosting this event and hopefully stimulating the local economy."
G&W Events invites all OBX area non-profits to join them on their choice of festival days at absolutely zero cost. All non-profit participants will receive a 10' x 10' exhibit space and tent, a display table, exposure on the event's website, and a portion of all sponsorship fees collected on participating days. The event also gives non-profits an excellent stage to present their cause and obtain donations from visitors.
G&W Events has started to send letters to local non-profits further detailing the benefits of free participation. If you have not already received information about Experience OBX but would like to participate in the festival, please visit www.ExperienceOBX.com or email contact@experienceobx.com.
[Editor's note: All information is from a press release and not verified]
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