Boise State News January 22, 2021
Boise State’s Onramp team marked the recent Martin Luther King Day by creating ongoing challenges to engage community partners, K-12 educators, and students in meaningful dialogue and service throughout Idaho. It’s all part of a challenge set by Bernice King, daughter of Martin Luther King and CEO of the Martin Luther King Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change.
Onramp is a joint program of several departments at Boise State, other institutions of higher learning, and Apple’s Community Education Initiatives team to teach coding skills to K-12 teachers and library staff so they can share what they learn with their students in economically challenged schools across Southern Idaho.
Land that the fire department wanted to purchase.
Clearmont Town Council met Monday, Dec. 21, at 6 p.m. at Town Hall with all council members present. Two guests, Stephen Dow from The Sheridan Press, and Cynthia Vannoy from Sheridan Media, were present as well.
Mayor Rohrer called the meeting to order and lead the pledge of allegiance. He also thanked town clerk Amy Vineyard for decorating the town hall for Christmas, and provided a Christmas snack supper in lieu of the annual Christmas dinner, which was canceled due to the Covid-19 virus restrictions.
Discussion centered around the possible sale of land to the Clearmont Volunteer Fire Department. The Fire Department wanted to purchase the land, which is the on the corner of New York Ave and Front Street, where the old locker plant building used to stand. According to Amy Vineyard, town clerk, the Fire Department talked of making that land into a parking lot to go with the shop they proposed on th