IT is exactly the same today as it was in your day. Get the reports in, regardless of what is REALLY happening SAY they are going well! A volunteer could literally do NOTHING every day if that is what he or she chose, just send in a GOOD REPORT and on time!
We were fortunate....we had a great crew of 12. Want to hear another little ditty about San Juan County? We were selected through the White Mesa Ute Board, a non-profit run by a certain individual. He was the head of the other 6 non-profits in that part of the county. He literally ran the whole thing. He was an LDS member. The charter said that 12 VISTA volunteers were to work on White Mesa and develop sustainable programs that, if successful, would expand to the rest of the county. In truth, I was the only VISTA on White Mesa. The REST worked to support the local college and schools in the county, freeing up paid employees from secretarial work, putting together educational testing and doing grunt work. In this way, San Juan County got the lions share of the resources the VISTA program intended for the Native Americans. On 6/27/06, steven linnabary <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "John Stroebel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED] <john.stroebel%40gmail.com> > > > > > That is part of what is being done there now. Oh, no, I finished a > second > > year and moved on to teach on the Wind RIver Reservation in Wyoming. > > This article began with a post I was sharing...showing a business > success > on > > this reservation. I showed an article on how VISTAS found a way to > assist > > the Ute and Navajo children in San Juan County with sales of home made > candy > > over the Internet. The success was so surprising that the parents are > now > > involved. > > > > I was a part of VISTA back in '82-'83. I did not have the good VISTA > experience you did, though my project was gratifying. My problem was that > VISTA required written reports, and that VISTA really did not seem to care > whether the project was successful or not. As far as VISTA was concerned, > as long as the weekly reports were timely, the project was successful. As > far as I was concerned, the reports were far too time consuming unless I > what I wrote was vague and contained a lot of obtuse verbiage. > > Accurate reports were impossible because I was in charge of a "Gleaning > Program" for local farms at the local food bank. Of course this was > neccessarily seasonal, and I found that there is actually very little food > (commercially) grown in Ohio for human consumption. The rest of the time I > was helping out around the food bank, which actually took up nearly all my > time. The food bank was something that I believed in, afterall, it wasn't > government funded. > > One good experience was at the beginning of my service, I was required to > sign a proclamation to defend America from all enemies, foriegn and > domestic. I scratched out America, US and other government references and > replaced them with "people of the world" or some such. I found out several > years later that the local director of VISTA always showed this signed > statement (sans my signature, I hope) to new recruits during orientation > as > to what they were allowed to do if they had a problem with the oath. > > > > That is what we do there...we need to first begin with education. A > person > > who can not read or spell can not access the Internet, and this is one > major > > way to find a market for their products. I set up a business council to > help > > Ute adults with assistance with business decisions. > > > > Here again, I found that the welfare mentality caused people to not care > or > work toward their own welfare. This was the era of free government cheese > handouts. People would stand in line for several hours for a 5 pound block > of cheese (or fight to get to the front of the line (police were > omnipresent > during these handouts). Sad, really. > > And the volunteers I managed to find for the project never came from the > local food pantries, but from church groups and other civic organizations. > > PEACE > Steven R. Linnabary, Treasurer > Franklin County Libertarian Party > (614) 891-8841 > P.O.Box#115; Blacklick, OH 43004-0115 > > "When you make peaceful revolution impossible, you make violent revolution > inevitable" John F. 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