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Share the Spirit Hosts HOPE Student’s Christmas Party
Project HOPE students were treated to a Christmas Party at their Lincoln School headquarters this past Thursday, December 10th, complete with a baked ham dinner, presents and holiday decorations, courtesy of the Share the Spirit Foundation and the Yada Yada Sisters Group. Kids lined up in the gym, first to receive tickets corresponding to a […]
Project HOPE Chili Dinner Set for Friday’s Whistle Game
Volunteers and members of Project HOPE made final plans for their annual chili dinner fund-raiser this year. The event will be held on the east end of Savage Stadium from 5pm to 6:30pm this Friday, October 23 for the classic Whistle Game match-up between rivals Lamar and La Junta. This will be the first time […]
‘HOPE’ing for Sod
HOPE Coalition members updated recent activities during their monthly meeting, April 20th. Angel Madrid reported that the Lamar Police Department is working to develop a police cadet organization among interested students. Several officers have met with HOPE staff to see if Saturday sessions would work, along with creating an obstacle course for students to […]
Laureate RHO Sorority Donates to HOPE Center, Shoe Cruizer Distributes Free Shoes
A February 5 bingo night at the Lamar Elks Lodge raised $250 which the local sorority, Laureate RHO, donated to the Project HOPE Center this past Friday, March 20. Members Kay Arends and Judy Turpin said their volunteers had as much fun, if not more, than the people who come out for weekly bingo. […]
Helping Hands Clothing Center Opening This Month
Sherry Becker has been sorting and folding clothes over the past few weeks in anticipation of the February 21st opening of HOPE Center Helping Hands at Lincoln School on North 10th Street. One of the classrooms at the HOPE Center is being donated as a distribution and drop off site for donated clothing […]
HOPE Center Sports a Student-run Bicycle Repair Class
Take four bicycles in various stages of repair, four boys with somewhat greasy fingers, an instructor and a Friday morning at the Project HOPE Center at Lincoln School is underway. For the past four or five weeks, on Friday mornings and Monday evenings, youngsters, mostly middle school age boys, will cover the floor in their […]
Partners for HOPE Discuss El Pomar Contract
Lori Hammer, Executive Director of the Partners for HOPE Center at Lincoln School in Lamar, told Coalition members that the $100,000 check from the El Pomar Foundation has been received. “It is really official now and with the check we’re good to go for another year of operations,” she said during the Coalition’s […]
Teens Leave their Mark at NAPA in Lamar
What was once a bare north wall at NAPA Auto Parts, North Main in Lamar, has been covered with some welcomed graffiti (mural), the handiwork of representatives of #riseaboveColorado. Promoting a drug free, healthy lifestyle for Colorado youngsters, the statewide organization came to Lamar to initiate a project for eleven communities in the state. Two […]
HOPE Center Reviews June Field Trips, Plans for Family Fun Day
“The recent rains have done a world of good for the Center’s garden,” said Project HOPE, executive director, Lori Hammer, during the monthly meeting this past Monday, June 16. Hammer reviewed some of the past highlights with students from the Center, including two field trips which were held earlier in the month. She said […]
HOPE Readies Projects for 2014
“We’re almost ready to gain our non-profit 501C3 status,” according to Project HOPE executive director, Lori Hammer. She briefed HOPE Coalition members during the monthly meeting held at the Lincoln School in Lamar on Tuesday, January 21. Hammer relayed some hopeful news to the members regarding future grant funding, stating that Tony Grampus grant has […]
Lincoln School HOPE Center Meets The Code of the West
The Hope Center meets the Code of the West By Lacey Mann, CSU 4-H Extension Agent, Bent & Prowers Counties Southeast Area—Prowers County 4-H and The Hope Center have partnered to deliver Code of the West Happy Trails curriculum to third, through sixth graders. The first principle the Hope Center youth have […]
Local Philanthropic Organization Gives to Teen Center
The Lamar ladies of the Kappa Master Chapter of Beta Sigma Phi sorority enjoyed an interesting and informative program about the HOPE teen center given by Lori Hammer, after a delicious luncheon at the Rodeway Cow Palace Inn in early April. The HOPE Center located at 210 N. 10th, stands for Health Opportunity Prevention and […]
Summer Activities, Fundraising Planned at Project HOPE
Members of the HOPE Center Coalition in Lamar attended what they thought would be the final monthly meeting before the summer break. However, members agreed that there were too many projects that needed attention connecting the spring to the fall, so the monthly meetings will continue. The Coalition, which serves to benefit the Project HOPE […]
Kids, Cakes and Cord: Friday at the Project HOPE Teen Center
Forty youngsters were busy this past Friday, March 22, at the Lincoln School Teen Center, taking part in various morning projects. Byron Hall was instructing kids on things to do with strings, that for a change, weren’t attached to yo-yo’s. The kids were using three foot lengths of different colored para-cord to weave personalized wristbands for […]
Annual Banquet for Project HOPE this Thursday
Project HOPE Coalition members met to discuss the seasonal finale of the HOPE Center Project set for Thursday, March 14 at 7pm at Lincoln Elementary School. A portion of the evening will be devoted to a presentation of the Lead2Feed project highlighting efforts to curtail world hunger. Lamar High School students, Lauren Tinnes and […]
Lupe & Julie Adame and Hammer and Gearhart Presented Awards at Lamar Chamber Annual Banquet
Lori Hammer was selected as the Lamar Chamber of Commerce Citizen of the Year during the Chamber’s 93rd annual banquet, held at the RodeWay Cow Palace Inn on Thursday, January 24. Hammer is the Executive Director of Project HOPE, the Teen Center, located at the former Lincoln Elementary School in Lamar. The Humanitarian Award, not […]
HOPE Plants a Seed for the Future
The Project HOPE garden at the Lincoln School Teen Center is off to a great start, thanks to students and community volunteers who showed up this past Saturday, November 17, to prepare the site for the next growing season. Almost two acres of land is available for use and expansion, just north and on […]
Get Some Dirt on Your Hands!!
Volunteers are needed for a garden-building project this Saturday, November 17, at the former Lincoln School on North 10th Street in Lamar. The Project HOPE Teen Center is constructing a HOPE Center Garden in a section of the playground and your help would be appreciated. The weatherman is predicting a sunny day with a […]
The Lamar Chamber of Commerce Honkers Visit to the New Partners for HOPE Center
The Lamar Chamber of Commerce Honkers pay a visit to the new Partners for HOPE Center – featured above, are several members of Partners for HOPE Board of Directors, teachers and volunteers and many of their wonderful students. The HOPE Center (formerly the Teen Center) has been providing a safe-haven for hundreds of Lamar students […]
Project HOPE Chili Dinner – Open House a Hit
Click on a picture to open the slide show. You take several dozen youngsters, fill them up on bowls of freshly made chili, grated cheese, crackers, apples and brownies and you have some energetic kids. Happy ones too. That was the scene for about 100 parents and students at the HOPE Center’s Chili Supper and […]