Civic Engagement Project

With doing this civic engagement project I have learned so much. For my project KellyJo and I planted flowers outside the school. I feel this was a good project it brought some color to our school. Our original plan was to plant flowers around every other tree at the school, but with the way our economey is it was a problem getting donations of flowers and money. We worked with two great company's that helped us out.True Value donated a flat of flowers and Robertson's construction donated twenty five dollars so that we could go buy some more plants. We did what we could, we planted around 6 of the tree's and it looks better than what it did before. With doing this I think that it would be nice if someone could pick this back up what we did this year for next year. Maybe start early in the year with doing a fundraiser that way they could raise more money so that they could plant even more flowers than we did this year. With doing this project I think that it has opened everyone's eyes to how much our community can use the help.
*Justine

SPCA Fundraiser:Brittany

For my project I decided to help out the local SPCA considering they don't get much help from our community. First of all I set up a day I was able to have the fundraiser which was Saturday May 2nd, and then I made up flyer's promoting the donation day. I then made a spring cleaning basket filled with cleaning supplies and I raffled it off for $1.00 a chance. I also made a donation can up for anyone who just wanted to donate money. The fundraiser seemed to be a success considering I raised $140.00 for the Clearfield County SPCA. I was glad to do this project because it was for such a good cause. Throughout the process of my project I learned that some people are not aware of what the SPCA is. It was after I told them a little more about the organization that they wanted to donate money to the cause. I was very surprised when I got a few responses of " What is the SPCA?". Those people who were not aware of what the organization was are now a little more educated on it and will hopefully be supportive of them. I also learned that people can be rude and not even acknowledge organizations such as the SPCA. Overall I think this project made me realize that doing things and helping out the community isn't so bad after all.I thought this project was a good experience for me and I am glad I spent the time to get more educated on what the SPCA really is. I am also glad I got to learn what they do at the SPCA and most of all learn how I can help them out. Even if its giving so much as a bag of dog food to them they appreciate every bit of it.