summer service showdown

This summer, we challenged our members to get creative with how they serve their communities during the COVID-19 pandemic. Thus, the CKI Summer Service Showdown was created. Members entered their socially distanced projects for a chance to win a special prize. This year’s winner is Amelia Glas with her kitten fostering project!

Amelia Glas Kitten Fostering

Winner!

I fostered 4 kittens over the summer. I took care of them until they were 2lbs. and able to get spayed/neutered and then adopted.

Summer is known as “kitten season”. Peggy Adams, the animal rescue shelter we fostered through, had too many kittens and needed foster families to help them care for the kittens. Fostering also helps socialize the kittens and makes them more adoptable.

honorable mention Patrick Rougraff (and Billy & Vincent) Naples Creative Cleanup Project

A couple weeks ago I went to Freedom Park where I noticed there was trash below the boardwalks. There is no way to get below the boardwalks and no one is currently working at the park so we had to think of a way to pick up the trash. Billy, Vincent, and I figured out if we used pool nets we could reach far enough to pick up the littered bottles. We went around the boardwalk area picking up bottles and then walked around the sidewalks picking up any other garbage we could find. The whole adventure took about 2.5 hours.

A lot of parks are open but do not have anyone working at them due to COVID. This causes trash to be left out and no one is there to clean it up.