Anaconda, Montana

The Horizons program and MSU Extension Office are offering a free personality traits course ‘Real Colors’ on Friday, April 3, 10 am till noon, at the Community Service Center, 118 E. 7th Street. The Real Colors program is grounded in personality theory of Carl Jung and validated through research of Myers-Briggs and Keirsey-Bates. It’s an easy to understand method of identifying ‘temperaments’ that leads to understanding how to work and communicate with others along with understanding your own basic temperament. To register for the free course, call the MSU Extension Office: 563-4035.

The Horizons program and the MSU Extension Service will be offering a free Grant Writing Workshop “Elements of Successful Grant Writing” on Friday, April 17, 10 am – 4 pm at the Community Service Center, 3rd floor conference room, 118 E. 7th Street. Dr. Mike Vogel from MSU will present the workshop. Mike has successfully brought large grants for his housing programs and has a near perfect success rate on all his grants. To sign up for the course call the MSU Deer Lodge County Extension Office at 563-4035. Lunch will be provided for those who register by April 6.

The Horizons Survey found our Senior Citizens are deeply concerned about their health and ability to stay in their homes. The MSU-Extension Office put one article in the Leader and Standard asking women who were interested in a strength training Tufts University Strong Women program for older women to call their office. Over 40 women called thus two classes were launched in February and will continue through May. The office already has a list of interested women for the fall 2009 Strong Women class. To sign-up or find out more, contact Barbara Andreozzi, 563-4035.

In response to the #6 identified issue from our Horizons Survey and #8 from the Horizons Study Circles, the MSU Extension Office teamed up with Community Hospital of Anaconda to offer monthly prevention and wellness presentations. The sevenths presentation in the series, Healthy Heart, was held Friday, February 20, with a Zumba workout ending. On March 10, 2:00 pm the Wellness Series will offer ‘Cancer Prevention Basics’ which will also end with a brief exercise break. The programs are open to the public and are held in the Anaconda-Deer Lodge County Courtroom, 3rd floor. For more information contact Barbara Andreozzi, MSU-Deer Lodge County Extension Agent, 563-4035.

the Anaconda area an opportunity to apply for three mini-grants to be awarded this Spring. Each of the three grants is worth up to $5000 with a total of $15,000 to be awarded. The grants should address the areas of community improvement, education, and/or health and human service. More information and grant applications are available at the Community Foundation office at 117 East Seventh Street on the third floor or by calling 563-5259.

On February 25th, the Anaconda Community Hospital working in partnership with the Horizons Project will offer the first class for those interested in attaining certification as nurses assistants. The CNA Training Program is designed to offer local residents an opportunity to receive the training necessary to complete the certification requirements for employment with the Hospital and other health care services agencies in the area. The hope is that this class will be the model for future CNA training opportunities which in turn will serve to fill an contining demand for trained staff in this area of the state. Call 563-9178 or the Community Hospital if you have questions or need more information about this opportunity.

On Wednesday and Thursday, February 11 and 12, the Anaconda Horizons Project kicked off a new round of computer training classes; one entitled, “An Introduction to Computer-based Office Applications-Microsoft Office 2007″, and a second class entitled “An Introduction to QuickBooks”. Nearly thirty local residents have enrolled in the two classes designed to improve the computer skills of those seeking employment and for those already employed. These two classes represent the fourth set of training opportunities offered to area residents by the Horizons Project and its partners; Anaconda High School, the Deer Lodge County Superintendent of Schools, and Anaconda Local Development.