Happy New Year! Tomorrow morning at our breakfast meeting, Mallory Getto from the Shepherd’s Home will come and tell us about the Home and her job as the Administrator. Here is some history from the website:
The idea for the Shepherd’s Home was born in the home and hearts of Bill and Dottie Basye. The Basyes, working closely with the Department of Health and Welfare, sought a way to overcome the lack of adequate foster care available to children in central Idaho. To provide for the many children in crisis who needed a safe and loving home, they created a community initiative which quickly gathered support and momentum. The Shepherd’s Home was incorporated as a nonprofit organization in 1996 and opened its doors, fully operational, in the spring of 1998. During the brief interim between dream and reality, several donations of local money, time, and professional labor made the building of the Home possible. The local Lutheran church donated an acre of land and several large foundation grants were used to build the Home and hire the Home’s first staff. Community members provided enormous support and established fundraising events to support the new Home. Since that time the Shepherd’s Home has grown into a cherished and highly-regarded regional resource, providing not only a loving home for children in crisis but also providing additional programs for its residents and for community members to support the prevention of child abuse.
We should also have some planning discussion about Winter Carnival Activities that is coming up very soon.
Help Needed: Come join us on Saturday, Jan 11th; our Boy Scout Troop 246 is hosting an Ice Fishing day for Boise Troop 1. There should be about 30 boys and 12 leaders fishing between the Downtown Marina and Brown’s Park starting about 11am. We can use some help and instruction from experience fisherman and any ice augers. There will be a lot of holes to drill! Call me if you think you can make it or have an ice auger to loan. Thanks.
Tom Crawford, secretary
Promise Yourself....... To be too large for worry, too noble for anger, too strong for fear, and too happy to permit the presence of trouble.
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