Key Club is a community service club where we do a variety of activities from cleaning up Mineral Street to packaging food to walking dogs. It is a great way to get involed and help out the community. We meet every Monday after school in room C16. All Arapahoe students are welcome! Feel free to join at any time and new members are always welcome.
As always, we welcome your ideas for new and unique service projects.
Upcomming Key Club Events:
Mineral Street Clean-Up- Saturday, September 19th, Meet at Powell Middle School at 10:00am. Bring gloves if you want them and trash bags. Join us at Dairy Queen for free ice cream afterward. THANKS TO EVERYONE FOR DOING SUCH A GREAT JOB!
Walking dogs and petting cats at Colorado Humane Society- Saturday, September 26th. We are going to meet in the West parking lot at 12 pm to carpool over to the shelter. The address is 2760 South Platte River Drive, Englewood, CO 80110. Important Note! You must be 16 in order to participate. This was not mentioned at the meeting so please help us spread the word! We are sorry about the late notice.
St. Josephs Soup Kitchen- Thursday, October 22nd. If you signed up at the meeting, meet at 3:45 in the Bubble to carpool down to the Soup Kitchen. We will be getting back at about 8 pm.
Trick-or-Treat Street- Saturday, October 31st. Please arrive at 9 am ready to decorate the rooms. The kids will be arriving at 10 am. Begin thinking of ideas for room themes. If you don't want to be in a room, you may bring face-paint, or help the kids with activities such as coloring. Also, save your recepits for any purchases because Kiwanis will reimburse your costs.
Food Packaging- Sunday, November 1st, 9am to 12 pm. Plan to meet at the storage facility at 9:00 am, although you may come at 10 if that is what you signed up for. Wear warm clothes! You may call Kari at 303-886-8406 with question! Once again, we will be working with Kids Against Hunger in order to package food for hungry people around the globe. We had a blast with this last year and hope to have a lot of people participate! If you did not sign up at the meeting, please let us know if you wish to attend. The address of the facility is 12386 Dumont, Unit 200. Directions: take C-470 to Santa Fe Drive, south on Santa Fe to Dumont Way, right on Dumont. We will probably meet at the school and carpool over.
Writing Letters To Soldiers - Monday, November 15th, at the weekly meeting. Please bring encouraging or "thinking of you" cards that we can write a short message in to send off to the soldiers.
Toys For Tots Wrapping Party - December 7th, after school in the cafeteria.
St. Joseph's Soup Kitchen (Round 2) - Thursday, December 10th. Please meet Devon in the Bubble at 3:45 to carpool down to the Soup Kitchen. There are a limited number of spots available so please sign up at one of the meetings!
Angel Tree Project - We are sponsoring a few children whose parents are in jail. If you didn't sign up at the meeting, contact Sarah Mac at sabby244@juno.com. We will be getting together after school to wrap the gifts (room TBA) on Thursday, December 10th and we are planning on personally delivering them to the family on Saturday, December 19th. More information will be available as the date gets closer.
Kids Against Hunger (Round 2) - Saturday, February 13th, 9 am to 5 pm. We are meeting at the facility (address above) at 9 am and will stay until 12 pm, although you can drop in at whatever time works for you. We will be making another trip to the Kids Against Hunger Warehouse in order to aid the relief efforts in Haiti. There are morning and afternoon shifts available, and please sign up at the meeting or contact an officer if you would like to participate.
Twain Spaghetti Dinner - Saturday, February 27th, 3 pm to 8 pm. We will be helping Mark Twain Elementary host the spaghetti dinner at which they hope to raise the funds for a literacy specialist, which is a position likely to be cut because of district budget cuts. 15 volunteers are needed between Key Club and NHS so let us know immediately if you would like to help! If you plan on attending, please meet us at Twain at 3 dressed in black pants, a white shirt and a white apron if you have one.
Easter Egg Hunt - Saturday, April 3rd. We will be teaming up with the Mile High Downs Syndrome Association once again to host an Easter Egg Hunt. Please show up at 9 am so we can fill about 500 eggs before the kids arrive at 10 am.
Soup Kitchen - Our next and last trip to the soup kitchen will be Thursday, March 15th. Contact the officers if you plan on attending.
Walking Dogs (Round 2) - Saturday, April 17th, time to be announced. We will be walking dogs at the Humane Society of the South Platte (formerly the Colorado Humane Society). This event is open to the entire club, but anyone under 18 needs to get the waiver signed by a parent or guardian.
Officer Elections for Next Year - At the meeting on Monday, April 26th. All of the positions will be open next year because all of the officers are graduating, so if you plan on running, prepare a short (30 second) speech. The positions are President, Vice President, Secretary, Treasurer, and Publicity Officer.
Mineral Street Clean Up - Saturday, May 1st. Time TBA. We will meet at Powell Middle School, pick up trash along the street, then make a trip to Dairy Queen for free ice cream. We will also have a meeting for new officers afterwards.
Also, Devon Smith is selling reversable, fabric bags as a fundraiser for the American Cancer Society. Prices vary between $20 and $30. Direct questions to greengrass13@mac.com.
Contact Information
The officers can be contacted by email at: arapahoekeyclub@gmail.com or kari.baker2010@gmail.com.
