METRO CONNECTION Your monthly Chamber update.
MAY 2018
A publication of the Boise Metro Chamber | Vol. 70 No. 5
IN THIS ISSUE OF THE BOISE METRO CHAMBER’S METRO CONNECTION
LEADERSHIP BOISE SERVICE PROJECT AT GLOBAL GARDENS
2018 SMALL BUSINESS AWARDS ARE JUST AROUND THE CORNER
MEMBER CORNER: MEET CONNIE MILLER OF ICON CREDIT UNION
LEADERSHIP BOISE SERVICE PROJECT
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Down and dirty at Global Gardens' Pond Street Farm
n Saturday April 14, members of the
a joint lunch among the Leadership Boise class,
establish their goal of an ‘edible food forest,’
Leadership Boise Class of 2019 and the
the Leadership Boise Academy class, and staff
build several picnic tables for their facilities, and
and participants of Global Gardens.
provide general site maintenance.”
Gardens. Approximately 70 Leadership Boise
“The annual service project is an important
Global Gardens is a program of the Idaho
members planted trees, shrubs, and seeds,
component of the Leadership Boise program,”
Office for Refugees. The program works with
built picnic tables, dug flower beds, as well as
said Meredith Stead of Ballet Idaho, who is
diverse families in promoting healthy lifestyles
installed a French drain at Global Gardens’
co-chairing the service project with Finia Dinh of
and providing entrepreneurial training through
Pond Street Farm. The improvement projects
the Idaho STEM Action Center. “We are excited
took place in the morning and were followed by
to come together with Global Gardens to help
Leadership Boise Academy Class of 2018 participated in a service project to benefit Global
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