Nebo School District offers free summer meals for youth
Nebo is partnering with the Utah Food Bank again this year to provide free summer meals in four of Nebo School District communities. Fresh and free summer meals will be offered every Monday through Friday through August 12 for youth up to age 18. In the Springville area from 12:30 to 1:30 p.m. at the […]
Community Action Services offers a helping hand when things get tough
We are fortunate to have a variety of nonprofits doing good in our community: We have United Way of Utah County, with its South Franklin Community Center in Provo, Sub for Santa programs, tax help, Everyday Learners program, and more. There’s the Food & Care Coalition, which serves meals to people in need seven days […]
Costa Vida Spirit Nights in May
We are Costa Vida, we would like to support our community by helping our local high school and elementary school. We want to enrich the lives of students in our community. We invite you to have a fresh coastal Mexican grill at Costa Vida in Payson and be a part of our cause: where 20% […]
Nebo School District’s Dragon Pantry serves community
Landmark High School, with the help of Nebo School District Student Services has been running a community pantry to help people in need since 2013. This being the eighth year, Nebo School District social worker Monica Hullinger, who runs the pantry, said that now, more than ever, they are in need of items to be […]
New food pantry now open in Springville
Prior to COVID, nearly 64,000 people, including almost 23,000 children, were facing hunger in Utah County. With numbers like that, there will always be those who step up to bring the numbers down through service. Brent Haymond and the Kiwanis Club in Springville are no strangers to collecting food and donating to people in need. […]
Hope Recovery and Healing opens in Springville
Hope Recovery and Healing has opened in Springville. To celebrate their new opening a Ribbon Cutting was held at the Chamber Office at Springville City building. Hope Recovery and Healing was founded to address the growing need for quality mental health resources in our community and provides one of the state’s only intensive outpatient programs […]
The Lemonade Code
Community rallies to help boy after his bike is stolen, and he pays it forward Eleven year old River Peacock of Payson woke on April 29 to find that his brand new bike had been stolen. His mother, Carrie Peacock had recently taken pictures of her son’s bike, so she posted those pictures on the “Payson […]
Easter Seals searching for volunteers
The Easter Seals program is looking for senior volunteers to help with some of their partnership organizations. If you and to put a little jazz into your retirement life, and earn a few extra dollars and keep your benefits, volunteer with Easter Seals “Train to Work” and be placed in one of its partnership organizations, […]
Juab County honors volunteers through Big Hearts and Helping Hands program
The previous year was a year of change for many. We discovered that our residents started looking for ways to serve; checking in on neighbors, grocery shopping for the elderly, helping take friends to medical appointments, among others. Because they noticed the positive change happening in their communities, the Juab County Commission decided they wanted […]
Merit Academy fundraiser aims to provide desperately needed resources for students in Kenya
It is Merit Academy’s 10th anniversary helping our sister schools in Kenya, Africa. In 2011, Merit teamed up with Kenya Keys, a nonprofit organization committed to helping educate children in Africa. That year we adopted Mtulu, an elementary school in remote Kenya. In 2012-13 we held 5K races to help build a four stall latrine […]