CommUNITY Cleanup hailed as a success by organizers
NeighborWorks Great Falls
and last updated 2021-05-12 12:45:27-04
GREAT FALLS â Last week, NeighborWorks Great Falls hosted its annual CommUNITY Cleanup, starting with a free community shred day sponsored by Montana Credit Union. More than 16,000 pounds of personal information was shredded and properly disposed.
NeighborWorks Great Falls said in a news release that 24 sites around Great Falls were cleaned up by 15 teams of volunteers, with the Malmstrom Air Force Base Dirt Boyz picking up rubbish along 56 miles of roads.
Vanessa Hayden of Vision Net said, âWe care about the communities we live and work in so weâre always looking for opportunities to make our community better.â Vision Netâs team of volunteers spent several hours on Friday picking up debris along the Riverâs Edge Trail.
GREAT FALLS, Mont â A Downtown Great Falls coffee shop is hosting free hands-on culinary classes to âAlliance for Youthâ students.Â
Local chef Nick Stogsdill, a CMR and Culinary Institute of America graduate who works at his familyâs Electric City Coffee shop, is serving up his skills and teaching students culinary lessons to carry them through life by showing them how to take care of themselves in the future.
Everyday Electric City Coffee donates their unsold items to the youth program. Stogsdill decided to take things a step further to meet the students and host some classes. It was kind of a happy accidentâ¦bringing the arts and teaching to the plate is kind of revolutionary,â Stogsdill said.
Great Falls Public Schools team up with Secret Santa to spread holiday cheer
and last updated 2020-12-14 20:14:12-05
GREAT FALLS â It may be the most wonderful time of the year, but for many families, itâs also one of the toughest times of the year. Factor a pandemic into that equation, and things get even more complicated.
Roosevelt Elementary School in Great Falls was the site of overflowing traffic and holiday cheer on Monday morning, as the school held a drive-thru Christmas Village and gave out Christmas food baskets.
The drive-thru village is not the first event of its kind since the pandemic began. For teachers who have only been able to interact with their students through a computer screen over much of the past few weeks, it brought a welcome sight.