RIRIE DAYS 2011

Ririe Senior Citizen Luncheon

We are happy to support the Senior Citizen Center in all of their activities.  They consistently support us in all of our events.  This looked like a super fun luncheon!!  Everyone got to dress up while having a great lunch.  Thanks for sharing your event with us!!

RYAC youth leadership retreat 2011

Here are the forms needed for any youth and adults who wish to attend this year's leadership retreat.  Last year we had a great time and we learned a lot.  This year will be just as fun. 

Easter Egg Hunt

We had a great time at the Easter Egg Hunt. We partnered with the Ririe Fire Department to host this great event.  With nearly 3000 eggs filled with candy and prizes, the children had a great time.  We had about 300 people attend this year.

 Lining up

 The Prizes

 Helping out the Library

Putting out the Eggs

Community Dinner

We had a great time at the community dinner! We were able to meet and talk about those things the RCCD needs help with throughout the year. We are hoping that we will be able to continue most of the activities that we have sponsored in the past.

As a board we would like to thank all of you who came, ate, and participated with us to discuss what you would like to see happen in and around Ririe and for those of you who have volunteered to help out with our activities.

We would also like to thank Ririe's One Stop for providing the delicious meal as well as the Senior Citizens for allowing us to meet at and use the Senior Citizen's Center.

If you were unable to come to the dinner and would still like to volunteer please just let a member of the RCCD Board know.

SPRING INTO YOUR COMMUNITY Free Community Dinner

The board of directors:  Annika Davey (Chairperson), Whitney Summers (Secretary), Eric Bennion (Treasurer), Mandy Simmons (Media), Shari Sellers (Member), Jason Averill (Member), Kathleen Berrett (Member) are seeking help for the events that go on throughout the year.  We are in desperate need of volunteers. 

Some of the things we need help with are:  Easter Egg Hunt, Ririe Days, Halloween Spooktacular, RYAC (Ririe Youth Advisory Council), Newsletters, Community Beautification, etc.  We are also looking for board members who would like to fill a position and those who would just like to be members.

We hope that at this community dinner we will be able to generate support and volunteers.  If we can't get anyone to step up then all of these will end.

PLEASE help us out!!

Be Your Best Self

This year's Ririe Jr. Miss, Alexis Brown, approached us with a need for help with their "Be Your Best Self" service project.  Every year the program undertakes a service project that supports their be your best self platform.  This year they heard of a family that lost their senior age daughter to a car wreck one morning before school.  The mother, who works at the school, went to look for Alex when she didn't show up for school.  She found her several feet from where her pick up had rolled and thrown her out.  She had tried to answer a text and lost control.  Alex passed away from her injuries.  The family now has a foundation (rememberalexbrownfoundation.org ) that allows them to take her truck, on a trailer, to different schools and teach them about texting and driving and distracted driving.  They have a pledge for drivers to sign to not text and drive.  Along with the pledge they hand out custom thumb bands with the intention that if you go to text and drive and are wearing the band you will remember the pledge and not text.  Because of the popularity of the foundation and thumb bands, the Jr. Miss program was unable to get bands from them.  Alexis came to our group and asked if we would support their project and help them get bands.  We purchased 1000 custom bands.  The Jr. Miss program, through Alexis, has worked with our high school to educate students and teachers. 
Alexis spoke to the drivers education classes and then set up a booth at lunch.  She also encouraged our board to all sign the pledge.  We did and wear our thumb bands proudly.