Union Pacific Foundation Grant

In the early days when the railroad got to a new town it was a celebration. The town was now connected to all other parts of the country. Supplies, people and livestock could travel easier, safer and faster to their destination.

Today Union Pacific and the Union Pacific Foundation are still hard at work making the communities they serve a better place to live. The Union Pacific Foundation gave a generous grant to Saddle Up Lincoln County to help support the nutritional food value program in Lincoln County. The grant has given a hand to those in need and helped spur on some local business.

L to R: Saddle Up Lincoln County Chairman: Vernon Johnson,
Public Relations for Union Pacific: Dan Harbeke
Shoshone City Mayor: Dave Wendell

Thanks to the Union Pacific Foundations assistance, brings to mind the pioneering spirit of those who carved out an existence in this land before. This revitalized the can do attitude, people can make a difference when working together and make Lincoln County a better place to live for all.

Shoshone Skate Park Grant

In Shoshone there is a new entrance to the skate park, just east of Shoshone on Highway 26. This was made possible thanks to a grant from the Southwestern Region Greatest Need Fund in the Idaho Community Foundation.

The skate park has been in need of repair for a while and still does. As a community organization, Saddle Up Lincoln County proposed a new entryway and the city approved. Saddle Up applied for and received a grant from the Southwestern Region Greatest Need Fund in the Idaho Community Foundation to start the project.

Many organizations pitched in to help with many in-kind hours of volunteer labor. Now, there is a beautiful metal structure covered with P V C lattice to provide a little shade with a place to sit with built- in benches for those who visit the skate park.

Saddle Up would like to thank other partnering organizations and individuals, City of Shoshone, City of Shoshone crew, Big Wood Canal Co. & American Falls Res. Dis. #2, Shoshone School Ag Department, Pacific Steel & Recycling, G & H Ace Hardware, Leland Towne, Payson Reese, Jon Pugh, Aric Johnson and Darrell Johnson for helping make this possible.

In the future, continued community support will be vital to the skate park restoration. In closing this echoes what was spoken decades ago, “Ask not what your community can do for you, but what you can do for your community.”