Annual Dues are due in January.
The funding is used for projects and operations. For information on membership:
About JKHF
Avista Power Foundation 2012 Gift:
This very
generous funding amount will go a long way toward improving our area's
economic and cultural vitality. Combined with other donations and
grants it will make the Kendrick Grange building
second floor-designated
museum/meeting “Grand Room” usable as a public space. We look forward
to working with Avista toward making this space as energy efficient as
possible.
J-K Recreation District 2012 Gift:
What can be provided and when
we can begin the J-K Walking Tour project update has become a very soon
to be reality. We are thankful for the huge amount of support this
district has provided toward the overall Walking Tour project to acquire 30
site signs, new tour booklets and a CD production.
Latah County Arts & Culture
Committee Gift:
We are soooooo pleased to
receive partial project support for our J-K Walking Tour booklet and CD productions.
This gift confirms immediate attention to this project.
Latah County Historical Society 2012 Gift:
JKHF has a history
of receiving WONDERFUL help from this historical society whom we
attempt to mirror in so many ways. Their recent gifting of surplus
display panels tremendously expands the exhibit options we now
have. We all will benefit from this contribution because of the
displays that can be created.
Clearwater Power
Company 2012 Gift:
We are very appreciative to the
generous financial contribution recently contributed to JKHF for our
future home. The funding will go toward the Kendrick Fraternal
Temple upper level insulation building needs. Clearwater Power
Company and JKHF share about 2,200 folks in our overlapping service
areas. Vista Power Company provides service to the city residents of Kendrick and Juliaetta.
JKHF "Leland
History" Publication: FINAL DAYS TO CONTRIBUTE DATA TO THIS
BOOK
Leland now
is six miles up a grade from the north-central Idaho valley community of
Kendrick and sits atop Potlatch Ridge. With Leland’s claim today to
six dwellings, one church, and one business, it is nearly a ghost town
resting upon Idaho’s landscape. Juliaetta-Kendrick Heritage Foundation
is preparing their newest publication promoting Leland's past to be
available for purchase in May 2012. Numerous pictures, and
pioneer stories make this publication an interesting read.
Homestead
records indicate 1879 conditions enchanted people to set down roots in
the rich, fertile area that became the community of Leland. Optimistic
settlers opened a post office in 1888 and the town, named for Alonzo
Leland, was born. Dances, roller-skating, saloons, barbershops,
doctors, schools, farm and ranch support businesses, as well as churches
were also a draw to this community’s development. Leland was the site of
Nez Perce County’s first homicide.
Its
heyday, lasting from 1890 to 1930, the town contributed a significant
population base to the county. The Methodist’s established a church in
1890 holding their services in the town’s schoolhouse. Their last
church, built in 1930, is the only church these days that offers
religious services in Leland. The sole business, currently in town,
survives by providing chemicals to the surrounding farmers.
JKHF
WWII Publications:
“Letters From the Front” is publication of the
letters written home by soldiers who called
the area in and around Kendrick and Juliaetta Idaho home. Volume I
includes 1945 WWII communications home with Volume II containing letters
written in the early WWII years.
For additional information:
"Letters From the Front".
The biographical surname index of soldiers listed in Volume I is at
the link:
Vol. I Surname
Index and the soldiers provided in Volume II is listed on
the link: Vol. II Table of
Contents .
A "Letters From
the Front-- Volume II" Reader's Comment:
OH MY GOSH,
The book arrived today, and I can barely put it down. Thank you so much to
you and your committee for putting together this very important piece of our history from
the small town of Kendrick, Idaho and surrounding area that provided so much man/woman
power in World War II. But for the lives of these very very brave people, we would be
speaking Japanese or German, or worse, never have been born.
Thank you for the book and more importantly, thank you to those brave souls
and families for putting their lives on the line that we may live in this great land of
freedom. May it ever be so.
Caroline
Many Thanks to our
2011 Contributors--
Each
have propelled us toward numerous successes!
|
Avista (through
Paul Kimmell) |
JKHF membership
subscribers |
|
Latah County Arts
& Culture Committee |
JKHF general fund
donors |
|
Latah County
Historic Preservation Commission |
JKHF publication
purchasers |
|
Latah County
Historical Society |
Grange 3rd
floor (our future home) gifting |
|
Latah County
Community Foundation |
Arlene & John
Wallace Memorials |
|
Kendrick
Centennial Committee |
Charles Taylor
Memorials |
|
Woodward
Foundation gifting |
JKHF volunteers
and board members |
Every
contribution is enriching. However it is with GREAT joy that we report
recently receiving a recycled computer from Avista.
Paul Kimmell, an Avista employee, went beyond our wildest
dreams to enhance and support our area's preservation abilities!
His kindnesses have touched many. Thank you Paul and Avista.
Other
PROMINENT JKHF PROJECTS:
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