** JOOI CLUB - Junior Optimists Club**
Next Leadership Meeting: February 12, 2010
Next Club Meeting: February 19, 2010
"JOOI" - We say Junior Optimists but correct title is Junior Optimists Octagon International.
January 29: If you want to help Haiti please contribute to the other drives happening on campus. PE and Builder's Club are both collecting for Haiti. Our next JOOI project is collecting items for the Santa Clarita Winter Shelter. We are collecting the following items until February 19.
coffee, creamer, and sugar
styrofoam cups and bowls
cereal and oatmeal
batteries (AAA and D)
razors and shaving cream
disinfectant
towels (for bathing)
socks (men and women)
deodorant (men and women)
Tylenol, Advil, Pepto Bismol, and cold medicine
Bring your donations to the the library at the beginning of the school day. Come help make posters to promote this drive Monday and Tuesday morning in the library. Be thinking of ideas for the "One for Books" drive. The money we raise will buy books for the library and Scholastic will donate a book to Toys for Tots for every dollar we raise.
December 4: Thank you Caitlin and Courtney for helping decorate the JOOI club tree at the Festival of Trees. The canned food and toy drive will continue through Thursday, December 17. Come to the library at lunch on Monday to help finish signs to adverstise this event. The JOOI club will be sponsoring a fundraiser after break to help raise money to buy books for the library. Come in January to help plan for this event.
November 13: The Holiday Food and Toy Drive will began last week. Thank you to our friends in the Builders Club for helping kick start the food drive. The Festival of Trees will take place on Sunday, December 6. Please let Mrs. G know if your family would like to attend this event.
October 30: Thank you Charlotte, Josh, Marcus, Ali, Courtney, and Caitlin for helping at the Sheriff's Station Halloween Carnival. Our next event is our Anual Holiday Food and Toy Drive. See Annette to sign up to help make signs on Tuesday, November 10 in the library.
October 9: Thank you to all the JOOI club memebers who signed up to help at Lombardi Ranch. If you missed the meeting and would like to sign up to help at the Sheriff's Station Halloween Carnival (Sunday, October 25) come to the library or see Courtney to sign up. We will be meeting at lunch on Wednesday, October 21 to fill candy bags to get ready for this event. See you there!
Officers for the 2009-10 School Year:
President: Charlotte Cocker
Vice President: William Oh
Board Member: Chris Ellithorpe
8th Grade Member at Large: Ali Solemani
7th Grade Member at Large: Robel Eskinder
The JOOI Club meets in the library computer lab every other Friday. To discuss and plan for our upcoming service projects. See you there! |