001e e e we don't have a forum board members tonight so we can't do any official so out of here um at we wanted to feature the Junior optim for the March Bo meeting this is a club that is available Toth graders only kind of like that the whole idea behind Junior Optimus is service and so the children that were interested in giving back to theol to um beautifying the building working some of our school functions and most importantly um service projects in the community to spread kindness and just good cheer um in the community and they're going to highlight some of the things that they've done they meet um once or twice a month depending and during those meetings they schedule these kindness projects and they also take field trips to to areas in
002the community um so I just want to take a minute I'm going turn it over to them but the sponsors are Miss alen and Mrs STS um they have done this for the past four years um so and and they do such a great job and we wanted to bring um some of the kiddos that actually go out and do these things so they can talk to you about how it makes them feel and and the things that they liked the most we have suly Hendrix Presley mil Liza leis and Carolyn Meritt okay okay um okay like Mrs counselor said we're just I'm just going to reintroduce um our four kiddos so we have Eliza Lewis with us Presley NM suy Hendrick and Harolyn Meritt so they're going to talk about some of our service
003projects that we've done and these are just four of our 20 or 20 kiddos here this club but we just brought four with us this evening we didn't want to overpopulate you so in September we we pulled weeds from the garden at OV di we also made a rock snake and everyone at to school decorated rocks and also juned and set it up in the garden we also started a hygiene closet with with everything that kids would need if they needed anything so the rock snake we actually did during our grandparent breakfast every every family had a rock and they um created something on their Rock and then Mrs Miss Allen sprays them and we just have them not on display in our flower bed so every family has a rock and this hygiene closet
004is available to any van Bine student or family who needs hygiene supplies as you see in the picture we have blankets there are socks gloves toothpaste um Combs brushes um really anything that any child or um ba might need to kind of help make end me in October we did our reading vend we sorted and hung Cuts we set up chairs and we learn all about theend we shared our club and what we did and we helped kids and at the end we had in November we for Veterans Day we passed out Veterans Day programs and we passed out pins to Veterans um and we serve and helped clean out breakfast on Veterans Day we also held a food drive and collected 687 items for kid care and in December we made we made a
005bunch of Christmas cards and we delivered them to the Clinton green Gardens green garden we also went Christmas cing at the Clint Gardens and we sang we went to almost every room and we sang the songs in January we par we and I participated in great canas Challenge and for every day week there was a different dress up day we also collected 759 socks and 490 of underwear to help hricane victims [Music] sorry we also decorated coffee C coffee cup sleeves for the cottage and the cover bridge cage shops in February we made Valentine's we made valtine cards for we may thank you cers for Sr appreciation and we at school um in March we helped our school custodian with trash we went in each classroom and emptied out the trash and recycling we also
006cleaned up the school grounds by picking up branches and trash and we made lucky cards to someone we feel lucky to have for St Patrick's Day for upcoming we will help the the South Vermilion art show also we will do a pet supply drive and we will also do yard work at the school like planting flowers awesome and if anybody ever has any um ideas for us to volunteer to outreach you can always email us and give us some ideas and every year I feel like you do different things I mean the human shelter they did last year and like the kids truly love that um what are some other things that you have done in the past that I'm just not remembering you were going to go through the park but that didn't work
007out so just anything that people need help with that they don't necessarily have time to do and don't have the manpower to do um this group does really cool anybody have any questions for us well thank you to these four kids for up their evening us folks that's all the business we that's not business it's only presentation we have this evening um unfortunately like of having for conduct any school corporation business tonight uh we will reschedule uh the March meeting for Monday March 24th and hope we'll get everybody back in shape by then so thank you for coming out yesterday