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Water Festivals in Canadian, TX
By Janet Guthrie What motivated you to partner with OC to create the annual Water Festival in Canadian back in 2011? If memory serves me correctly,

A Wide Community
The Community of Garden City has carried history and culture within, and accepted the cultures as they joined. I’ve mentioned the History of the town

Blog 5: Final remarks and overview-
So since this is my final blog, I would like to say that this was a blast of a time over the summer. Learning new

Blog 4: Community Service
I was given an opportunity to spend my community service helping Silverton with the maintenance of some of the people in the town. It started

My Experiences and Outcomes
Throughout this internship, I’ve learned a lot from my workplace and from the Ogallala Commons resources such as the cohort calls. I thought that it

Community Service
For my community service, I was given the opportunity to volunteer at the Swisher County Picnic Celebration in Tulia, Texas and help with the new

Common Wealth Mapping
Up until I started my internship with Ogallala Commons, I would have not been able to put a name to all the assets of a

My internship
My internship is located at West Texas A&M, where I work with AmeriCorps on campus. One of my main jobs to work on a math

The Ludicrously Late Return
Why hello and good day to you all. I would like to give you all the deepest of apologize for this untimely blog, but I

Something about me – Blog 1
My name is Alyxzandrya Perez, I go by Lexie, I grew up in the big-time city of Kress TX, smack dab in the middle of

Internship Update Blog 2
This internship I decided to take on this summer went a little differently than I thought. I work 4 days a week for sixish hours.

Giving Back to my Community!
A central point of being an Ogallala Common intern is community service. All OC interns are required to complete 10 hours of community service but

Garden City As a Community
I’ve gone over the Garden City Commonwealth twice before, but this community is larger than just a few blogs, and it grows faster by the