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| Intern Greg Laudenslager proudly displays the attractive HPFC delivery bags that help bring fresh foods to customers |
Last week, OC Director Darryl Birkenfeld made a
trip to Denver to work with Community Internships and partners in the
region. On July 19th, Darryl and Bob
Mailander, OC Advisory Council member met with Bill Stevenson, Director of
Rocky Mountain Farmers Union—Cooperative Development Center, to work on a
RMFU-OC collaboration to place 5 Community Interns at cooperatives in Colorado,
New Mexico, and Wyoming in 2013. Later
in the afternoon, Bob and Darryl visited the Delivery Day in downtown Denver by
High Plains Food Co-op, where they found OC Community Intern Greg Laudenslager
and many volunteers hard at work. Over
80 orders to HPFC members were filled at the delivery, totaling over $7,000 in
sales by HPFC producers. On July 20th,
Bob and Darryl traveled to Longmont, CO for a meeting with Marsha Whiting,
Senior Program Officer for First Nations Development Institute, a nonprofit
organization dedicated to educating, advocating, and capitalizing Native
American communities, youth, and entrepreneurs.
OC presented its Community Internship Program as a potential tool that
First Nations’ constituents in Great Plains states could utilize. Identifying and engaging partners for
Community Internships is a year-round, ongoing process for Ogallala Commons.
Intern Profile: Kara
Lacey
Hey there! I'm Kara Lacey! I am from Tulia,
Texas, and I am 20 years old. I am a junior at Texas Tech University, and I am
majoring in Agriculture Education, with hopes of being a County Extension Agent
one day soon! I am interning at Texas AgriLife Extension in [Tulia] for
[a] second summer and I am so excited! This summer, I plan on learning more
about Extension, since [that is] the career path I've chosen. But, I also plan
on learning more about my small community, and helping with different things
here! I am helping with the moth research again, I will volunteer a day or so
at our county library, and help with 4-H roundup. Of course, I'll be busy
around Picnic again, but that's the most fun event in the summer! I'm
very pumped up for this summer and working with my supervisors and fellow
interns. I plan to learn a lot of new things!
Intern Profile: Melanie
Jackson
Hello
esteemed readers, I’m Melanie Jackson. I grew up in New Deal, Texas (just
north of the grand metropolis that is Lubbock). I’ve always lived on my
family’s sheep farm and attended New Deal ISD, home of the mighty lions.
Upon graduation, I shipped off to Texas A&M University, where I have just
completed my freshman year as a Landscape Architecture major.
During
my senior year of high school, I was fortunate enough to come into contact with
my now-internship sponsor. He’s the landscape architect behind Prairie
Workshop LLC (a landscape architecture firm in Lubbock), and when the
suggestion of a summer internship came up, I was simply thrilled to have been
presented with a chance to observe firsthand the inner workings of my future
career and to contribute to the creation and completion of design projects...[Through] my
internship, I have the incentive and the capacity to improve not
only myself, but to explore and improve the communities I call home.
Intern Profile: Jake
Johnson
Hello
everyone, my name is Jake Johnson from Whiteface, Texas in Cochran County. I
live on a rather large ranch, (for our area) and with my dad and grandad, we run,
on average, about 1200 cattle in all. I'm looking forward to working in the
community as well as out at the Muleshoe National Wildlife Refuge close to
Muleshoe, TX. This summer, I will be studying any and all kinds of grassland
birds of West Texas. I have the honor to work with some really great folks at
the refuge throughout my internship, as well as in the community of Whiteface.
I believe there is a lot to be done in Whiteface with housing arrangements, and
I look forward to lending a helping hand where ever is necessary.
Intern Profile: Dayna
Larreau
Hello
everyone! My name is Dayna Larreau, and I’m from the tiny village of Arnold,
Nebraska. It has been my home for my entire life, and the community has shaped
me into who I am today. I recently finished my freshman year at the University
of Nebraska at Kearney and I am currently living at home in Arnold again for
the summer. I’m majoring in Economics, which is almost always considered awful
or boring, but after taking a course in it, I found it to be super exciting.
My internship is going to be split between the
Arnold Economic Development Corporation (AEDC) and The Arnold Sentinel, our
local newspaper. [...] For the AEDC I have quite a few projects, but the
largest will be dealing with that interest in genealogy and taking a census of
the Arnold Cemetery and putting the information on a Web site. For
the Sentinel, I will be doing quite a bit of researching and reporting about
the people that have stayed in the area and about how the recently implemented
1% sales tax has affected the community economically.
I am excited to begin
helping out and becoming involved with Arnold over the summer.
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