Troy nonprofit seeks two board members, holds first fundraiser on Saturday

A Troy-area nonprofit is looking for two more board members as its first fundraiser approaches.

SPUD — Social Progress for Under-Developed Communities — was recently established at the State Line House near the Montana-Idaho border. It’s holding a fundraiser from 5 p.m. to 10 p.m. at its Highway 2 location.

“There will be locally made food, music, a raffle and a silent auction,” board member Heidi Junkersfeld said via email. “All proceeds for this fundraiser will go toward improvements on our community kitchen.”

The kitchen, Junkersfeld wrote, will give “members of Lincoln, Boundary and other counties the opportunity to create and legally sell delicious culinary products, such as salsa, kombucha, pickled eggs, fresh bread (and) ethnic dinners.”

There’s more than the kitchen in store for SPUD, she wrote, including collaborating on healthy eating programs for children and adults, “offering classes that retain ancestral knowledge in homesteading skills, herbal remedies, food preparation, etc.,” and operating a small “building supply restore” stocked with tax-deductible donations of building materials to be salvaged and sold inexpensively to local builders for use in chicken coops, green houses, sheds” and the like.

To round out its board — Junkersfeld, Brooke Harris, Marcela Hilliard, Dave Barr, Yvonne Hampton and Monica Clearwater — SPUD seeks two people “who are committed, honest, kind, fun and intelligent and who wish to improve our region’s local economy in a healthy, sustainable fashion,” Junkersfeld wrote. “We appreciate diversity in age, gender, race and spiritual affiliation.”

Junkersfeld invites interested people to call her at 406-295-4609.

She also asks anyone who would like to donate items for the raffle or auction — “including baked goods, hunting rifles, art, etc.” — to contact board member Harris at spudstateline@gmail.com.