Pack the Pantry Food Drive at the YMCA

Bring the Y any non-perishable food item to Pack the Pantry. All food will be donated to local food pantries.

              With every 2 items you bring in, you get 1 Raffle Ticket

              This raffle ticket will give you the chance to Pie a community leader

              100 Pies will be raffled off

              Choose from: Lorin Affield, Stacie Appel, Anne Schafer, Kelsey Wolfe, DJ Bruce, Trey Cocking, Dan Raplinger, Chris Taylor, Shelly Nelson, Brian Clark, Joe Butner, Adam Burns, Lisa Howard, Middle School Principals: Mr Hansen & Mr Builderback and many more

Pies will start hitting faces on Nov 20^th at 6:00pm. 

Class Project Idea-Tourism Video

After watching some pretty amazing tourism videos I thought we could do the same. We talk about all the amazing things Atchison has to offer but there is not one video that says it all.


http://skift.com/2013/03/11/the-best-tourism-marketing-videos-of-2013/ (Best Tourism Videos of 2013)
http://www.youtube.com/user/TravelKS (Kansas Tourism Board)
http://vimeo.com/tag:tourism (Milwaukee videos)

Social Network-Lisa, Katie, Dom and Andrew

The Social Network- Tony, Ashley, Dominesha, Larissa

The Social Network--Zach, Josh, Holly, and Jen

Chamber Events

http://www.atchisonkansas.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/enews-10-22-13.pdf

Community Project Idea

If it does no already exist in Atchison already, I think a "Newcomers" group would be a great project, which would help new families that move into town get aquatinted.

Community News and Events

Here is the Chamber of Commerce new letter. Anyone can be on the mailing list for it, but here is a link so you can check out what's happening in Atchison.

http://www.atchisonkansas.net/index.php/the-chamber/e-newsletter/?utm_source=eNews+10%2F15%2F13&utm_campaign=eNews+10-15-13&utm_medium=email

ON THE COMMONS

Our latest issue of Commons Magazine is out!

Discover current news examined through a commons lens today:http://bit.ly/19MMGnI

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Atchison Historical Society Annual Meeting

To Atchison County Historical Society email list

You're invited to Atchison County Historical Society Annual Meeting -Monday, Oct. 21st - Social Hour beginning at 6 p.m.
& meeting/program beginning at 7 p.m.

Program by local author Robert D. Caplinger to feature 1922 story of Maurice P. O’Keefe – attorney who cleaned up Atchison County government as featured in Caplinger's book "A Wild Irish Rose"

The story of the young idealistic attorney who cleaned up the most corrupt county in Kansas (Atchison County in 1922) will be the focus of the annual meeting of the Atchison County Historical Society. Local author Robert D. Caplinger will share the story he found and pieced together about this dark chapter in Atchison County history.

The Atchison County Historical Society Annual Meeting evening on Monday, Oct. 21st will begin at 6 p.m. with a Social Hour in the Museum to include entertainment & heavy refreshments and beverages. Musical entertainment will be provided by Jim & Lynn Dixon and Lois Reid playing a variety of folk and popular music from the 1920s -1930s era to set the mood for the evening program. At 7 p.m. the Historical Society Annual Meeting will begin – including election of board and officers followed immediately by the Robert Caplinger’s “A Wild Irish Rose” program. 
The full evening of events is free and open to the public.

Visit the Historical Society website for full details
www.atchisonhistory.org

For additional information email Chris W. Taylor at the Atchison County Historical Society Museum:<GoWest@atchisonhistory.org>

An important part of being a leader

I have been living in the my house for about four months now, and I have a next door neighbor that I have only seen a few times so far. Every time I would see him it would only be for a split second because we were both rushing off to do whatever we had that day. Finally, this weekend I was able to officially meet my neighbor and learn his name and a little about him. To be a leader in a community I think it is important to get to know the people in the community, and there is no excuse for not knowing those closest to you, such as a next door neighbor.

Recap of last class

Last class we did the team building exercise with using pieces of spaghetti, some tape, string, and 1 marshmallow. Each team tried to build the tallest tower that could hold the marshmallow on top for more than 5 seconds. The first time we did it we were limited to 18 minutes. I feel that each team really had to think of a strategy for how they were going to make the base of the tower. At the end of the first time marshmallows were falling everywhere and only one tower stayed up. That tower was only 22 inches high. The second time we did it we only had 12 minutes but I feel that each team had a better understanding of how to actually work with the resources that we were given. Two of the three towers stayed up and the tallest reached about 29 inches. All in all I feel that this exercise was fun and it helped each one of us see how to work with people that were randomly picked before the exercise.