Spotlight of the Month

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PROJECT 29:11

In the past month, our club hosted an event called Project 29:11 Food Drive in which members would compile a kit filled with prepackaged, non-perishable food. The kits would then be donated to a nonprofit local food bank called Project 29:11 whose vision is for “every individual [to] experience dignity, hope and empowerment to improve their quality of life.” Some items that were included in the kits were cereal, snacks, crackers, dried foods, nuts, dried goods, canned foods and peanut butter but were not limited to those items. Members had the choice of having an officer pick up and drop off their packages for them or drop off their packages themselves at the food bank. Our club coordinated a designated time with the food bank for dropping off all the packages on July 21st at 9am. In total Walnut Key Club donated 19 kits to Project 29:11.

-Joy Wang , Walnut Tech Editor

dog 08 MAKING TOY

On the 26th of July, Rowland Key Club had their service week from July 26th to August 1st. Members attended the zoom on the 26th to learn how to make dog toys from T-shirts. Majority of the shirt would be utilized, only leaving the sleeves and collar left. These dog toys would be mailed to the VIDA Animal Shelter where dogs can have newer toys to play with. At the end, we played icebreakers which consisted of “Name the Pet” and “Would you Rather?” questions. A member, Anna Morrisseau, states “Since we couldn’t volunteer at the animal shelter, it was a fun event to use up old shirts to create toys that will make dogs very happy.” The dogs would be delighted to be able to get more handmade toys that were made with care in the members mind!

-Li Min Lin, Rowland Editor

MAKING face shield

This month, Northview key Club held a face shield service event. During these difficult times, many convalescent homes are having a shortage of medical supplies due to COVID, because residents are at higher risk and it’s important to have the right medical equipment to protect them. Our goal this month was to build and donate face shields to local convalescent homes. Members who participated received a bag full of supplies, the bags consisted of plastic hanger straps, zip ties, rubber bands, and plastic covers. These items were used to build face shield and were later picked up and taken to Atria Covina Senior Living and other local homes.

-Dayana Pamplona, Northview Historian

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This month our club hosted a cranes for kids events that allowed key clubbers to fold swans and donate them to those at Pomona Valley Hospital. Learning and folding cranes during our zoom call, as well as out of the zoom call. Although the process was slow at first everyone in the call towards the end figured the folding out, and mailed to Pomona Valley Hospital. Michele Lam, South Hills President stated, “I want to thank everyone for coming to our Cranes for kid event, it went great thanks to our officers as well as Mr. Olsen There was much confusion with the folding at first but we figured it out towards the end!”

-Matthew Zhong , South Hills Editor

After our first service week, we had lots of positive feedback on how fun and simple it was and hoped to have that again! Before the first week of August, we held our second service week with Rice Race and Cranes4Cancer. On the mobile app Rice Race, members would help a penguin on a balloon collect rice, which would then be donated. As for the Cranes4Cancer website, members could create digital origami cranes with a kind message attached which would be shared to cancer patients. Members had the choice of participating in one or both options. Looking over the Google form submissions, I am super proud of every single member who helped with over ten hours of donating rice and sharing origami crane creations!

-Sarah Phan, Covina Editor

On July 26th, IPoly’s Key Club participated in creating digital cranes for cancer patients at the Primary Children’s Hospital. Members were able to decorate the origami cranes online and type up meaningful messages to encourage the patients. President Daniella Laher commented, “As we are entering the digital age, cranes4cancer.org allows us to support and inspire cancer patients right at the touch of our fingertips. Knowing that I had brightened someone’s day really brings me joy!” Officers also appreciated being able to interact with new members during the activity and hope to keep attracting more members for future events.

-Arianna Morales, iPOLY Editor