Eagle’s largest and most popular event during summer is the annual Eagle Fun Days celebration. This celebration can trace its roots to August 2, 1964, when the first Eagle “Fun Fair” began with a parade at 11:30 a.m., followed by day-long events, carnival games, and an auction at the Eagle Grade School. The fair’s fundraising goal was to improve the baseball field at the school, including the installation of new bleachers and a backstop. The theme of the event was “Fun for all and all for fun.” and ended up raising $1,062.13.
    Eagle Fun Days once played host to the “World’s Largest Rocky Mountain Oyster Feed.” Rocky Mountain oysters used to be a well-known novelty dish in the American West. This cowboy dish commonly used to be served at festivals, among ranching families, or at certain specialty bars or restaurants. “The Nut Feed”, another name for this once long-standing Eagle tradition, started in the 1950s when Dr. Ralph Wilder, a local veterinarian and then President of the Alliance Club, began donating them to firemen as a fundraiser to provide children with reading glasses. When the oyster feed was in full swing, the proceeds would have gone to support the Eagle Volunteer Firefighters Association. However, the popularity dwindled through the years, and in 2014 the last Rocky Mountain Oyster Feed took place.
    Eagle has always played host to summer fun for its residents in some fashion or another. Eagle Fun Days has changed throughout the years, but has always brought with it family fun. Please join us here at the Eagle Historical Museum for Eagle Fun Days on July 8th and 9th. Hope to see you here!

Summer’s here, and at the Library that means one thing -- the Library’s Summer Reading Program is in full swing.  It’s a great opportunity to help your school age children maintain or improve their current reading levels and avoid the “summer slide”, the decline of reading skills that occurs during the summer months.  This summer, your elementary school aged children can contract with the Library to read an agreed upon number of books.  If they meet their reading contract, they’ll be invited to a special program in early August to recognize their accomplishment with prizes and treats.  Stop by the Library to register – or visit the Library’s website at eaglepubliclibrary.org – it’s a fun and easy way to maintain your child’s reading level.  For middle schoolers, high schoolers, and adults there’s a separate program Summer Reading Program based on the ever-popular B-I-N-G-O.  Read a book, watch a movie, check-out an ebook, or complete easy library-related task and you’ll B-I-N-G-O.  Submit your B-I-N-G-Os and you’re eligible to win fabulous prizes – the more B-I-N-G-Os you submit, the more likely you are to win. In addition to the reading program, there are many special programs during the summer, including elementary school aged themed programs such as Self-Defense Karate for Kids, Summer Reading Olympics, ninja, pirates, tie-dye fun, Masterpiece for Kids (an art series), sled dogs, and more.  And, for teens, there’s robotics, Instagram art, henna tattooing, screen printing and many, many more special programs.
If there’s a budding programmer in your family who might like to earn badges and prizes, he or she might want to participate in the Khan Academy’s Summer of Scripting.  From June 6 through July 15, the Library is participating in this fun program to increase area student’s coding skills.  Designated programming coaches are available at the Library every Wednesday afternoon from 3:00 pm until 5:00 pm.to help your programmer reach their programming goals.  Register at www.khanacademy.org (use class code JVRNNK). 

*Receiving Donations:  Fridays 4-6pm. A great job for teens (with an adult) needing service hours.
 
*Bread Pick UP from Franz Bakery: Break Pickup is at 8am. Need assistant and need a truck or vehicle that is big enough to transport items.
 
**1st Thursday Distribution Coordinator: 9:00am -12pm Coordinate distribution volunteers
 
​More important Foodbank info:
 
*Distribution Days:  The coordinators for each distribution day manage their own volunteers.  Gloria, the Last Tuesday evening coordinator (email: gloria@gloriacounseling.com) is able to have teens needing service hours at her distribution. Please contact her directly (by email) to arrange a date.  The 1st & 3rd Thursday distribution coordinators occasionally need extra volunteers.  Please contact Susan (email: jeffsusanmadsen@gmail.com) if you would like to be contacted on an AS Needed basis for those distributions.
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The Distribution Day tasks include: preparing to open the EFB by receiving & shelving bread/produce donations, signing clients into the EFB, assisting w/processing through the EFB, carrying food boxes to clients' cars, bringing left over donations to the Eagle Senior Center. 
Times: 1st & 3rd Thursdays, 9:30AM -12noon, Last Tuesdays evenings, 5:45pm-7pm. 
 
 *Sorting/shelving: Can be done any day/time of the week at your (your family's) convenience. 
 
​If you're on Facebook, please like our page!  I will be posting last minute opportunities, etc.  https://www.facebook.com/eaglefoodbank/?fref=ts  It's under the name Eagle Community Foodbank 

    The community of Eagle envisions its future as “HOME,” an acronym for “Healthy, Optimistic, Multi-faceted, and Economically viable,” that can be realized, for example, through goals and objectives related to transportation, economic sustainability and environmental stewardship.
    A Comprehensive Plan Steering Committee has been created to guide and review the efforts of the City staff and consultants to update the comprehensive plan. The steering committee will spend the next 10 months helping the City detail goals and objectives to advance the City toward its future as “HOME.” Minor revisions to the chapters of the plan dealing with property rights, land use, natural resources and hazards, parks, recreation and open space, and special areas will be made. Major revisions to the chapters of the plan dealing with population, schools, services and utilities, economic development, transportation, housing, community design, and implementation will be made.
    During the summer of 2015, a similar group, the Comprehensive Plan Review Committee, reviewed the existing comprehensive plan and solicited and summarized public input. This was the first full review of the plan since 1999. The review committee recommended updating all chapters of the plan, educating and engaging the citizenry on long-range goals and plans, and establishing policies that support both urban and rural development.    
    The comprehensive plan update process is currently in Phase 2, during which the city staff will amend and the steering committee will review the chapters receiving minor revisions. The economic development and transportation chapter updates provided by the consultants and the integrated master plans of various municipal agencies will also be reviewed.
    One of the first tasks for the steering committee is to review and polish a vision statement that clearly states how the City sees itself in the future and articulates it to potential future residents and business owners. The draft vision states:
        “Eagle will continue to grow as the Treasure Valley grows, but Eagle’s growth will be a unique balance of environmentally sensitive urban and rural development with ample areas of open space and recreation. Urban development will be directed to our downtown, central City, and “activity centers” along regionally significant transportation and transit corridors. The City will plan for and preserve a rural planning area in which large-lot residential and agricultural uses continue to be the focus. And, the City will balance development with environmental stewardship along the Boise River and in the Eagle Foothills. Growth within Eagle will enhance our quality of life while welcoming new citizens and businesses who share our vision.”
        “Densities and development will be scaled and strategically located to meet the needs of the community and to protect the places we wish to preserve and enhance, like the Boise River and the Eagle Foothills. Eagle will not be Idaho’s metropolitan center and the City will not provide large-scale regional economic development; to become these things, the City of Eagle would lose its small town friendly character.”
    The “Eagle is HOME” project is scheduled to be completed by late summer 2017. Follow the planning process on Facebook at “Eagle is HOME: Comprehensive Plan Update”. More information is available on the City’s website at www.cityofeagle.org/EagleisHOME or by contacting Nichoel Baird Spencer with the City’s Planning Department at 939-0227.