Weiser

One of the reasons we had to sandwich in two trips to help our daughter is because we live in Weiser. Years ago when we first moved here, we thought we might stay two years before we moved on to some place bigger and better. Well, we quickly learned that there are bigger places, but there couldn't possibly be any place better. For a town of a little over 5000, we put on the National Old Time Fiddle Contest every year, have 4 theater type stages in town, with two of them home to professional quality theater groups, have an event center that is new, super well equiped and wonderful, feature one of the most active Chambers in the region, have many still active service groups, and the best fly fishing club in the area (according to the fly shop owners) They are fund raising to build a community pond on the old sale lot grounds. Our hospital is in good economic shape and provides awesome service. Our library is wonderful, we have an active recreation department, many churches who work together to provide for the community and we hosted the Japanese delegation during the recent Special Olympics. ANYWAY, we've found that to continue to have such a wonderful place to live, we need to be involved in keeping it vital. Therefore, we first were working on the recent little theater production--me as a board member and my husband as one of the fly fishing club members who built the set and hosted dessert night(see picture)--then we "had" to be here for several other meetings and the annual chamber crab feed. We also had a committment to attend one of the fund raisers for the local domestic violene shelter. We visit often with several couples who have moved here fairly recently and one of the aspects of Weiser they like is that they are accepted quickly. If they want to be involved in the community, they are welcomed with open arms. Weiser is also a pretty diverse community. When we first moved here, I was interested in learning about other cultures. I got to know Jewish, Greek, Russian, Mexican, Japanese, Chinese and Basque heritage families. Our local high school has had student body presidents who were Japanese-American, African-American, Gay, Mexican-American and Native-American. Thogh there are some who are intolerant, we've shown ourselves to do pretty well as a group. Not every small town is like that. It's fun for us to live "where everyone knows your name". (although it does take quite a while to get through the grocery store)