EVENT: Students from our SALT High School’s Eco-Arts & Creative Writing classes created the “Write Me Up!” shanty for this year’s Art Shanty Projects (ASP) exhibition. It's hard to pass up an ice house with chalkboard exterior or surface covered in magnetic letters without making a contribution! <Read their blog>  The ASP exhibition is part sculpture park & part social experiment inspired by traditional ice fishing houses. The event is located on Medicine Lake in Plymouth, MN. Open weekends 10am-5pm thru February 7. <Learn more about the Art Shanty Projects>

UPDATED PUBLICATION: The Future of Our Service brochure was updated January 2010. The brochure contains a description of our organization, mission, vision, principles and values, long range plans, and a complete list of our programs with brief descriptions. Read/View Publication>

ADOPT A FAMILY 2009 RESULTS: More than 2,500 people were “adopted” this year, up from about 1,900 last year, and included  low-income families, at-risk youth and foster children, isolated older adults, and persons with special needs and disabilities for holiday gift giving. Read More>

NEW PUBLICATION: Take a peek at VOA Perspectives, a quarterly publication written by the level-seven writing students of our Evening Adult High School Diploma Program. The program offers English language learners, age 16 and older, the opportunity to acquire English skills and earn a high school diploma. Students tell personal stories, discuss the health care reform, the recession, and more in this issue. Read/View Perspectives>