Community Service
The Club is currently or recently involved with the following Communittee Service Projects. We are always looking for ways to use our resources to benefit the community. If you know of a worthy project for us to get involved with, please Contact Us. |
Festival of Lights went well All went well and we had about 415 ornaments. After filling the tree we had a few left over and donated them to the festival to be sold at the festival Gift shop at the show. As we were decorating several people walked by working on their own trees or members of festival staff. Each one said ours was always their favorite tree. Even someone from the janitorial staff said the same things. Charlene Shellabarger quilted the tree skirt which without a doubt was beautiful. Thanks to all who helped, whether it was making ornaments, preparing them for the tree or working on decorating the tree. (Ed. note: The tree fetched a donation just short of $10,000!) |
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Toys for Kids Project Mel Slaybaugh and Ron Vander Meyden have headed up the Club’s “Toys for Kids” Community Service project. This several year project was wrapped up April 2018. We made simple wooden wheeled push/pull toys and Scroll Saw Cutouts for girls and boys. These were distributed through several local Non-Profit Charity Agencies. These Agencies arrange for toy recipients to participate by painting the toys they received. Through 2018 the Club distributed 9,873 toys. These have put a smile the faces of many kids. |
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Cub Scout Woodworking Event - October 2018 On Saturday October 6th, members Eugene Harms, Frank Waterman and Jamie Spellman traveled to Camp Mitigwa, a Boy Scout camp 40 miles Northwest of Des Moines. There were various activities for Cub Scouts throughout the day. Eugene, Frank and Jamie helped with the woodworking event. Outside a covered tent was set up over 4 picnic tables. The cub scouts with their parents could pick from one of 3 projects to complete. The projects were a bird house, a tool tote and a bird feeder. The projects and tools were supplied by the camp. The event kicked off at 9AM and at 9:10 every available seat at the picnic tables was full and stayed that way until the event ended at 4 pm. Eventually the supplies for the birdhouse and tool tote were exhausted but the supplies for the bird feeders held out. All parts were precut and the Cub Scouts with their parents had to figure out how the parts went together and nail them. At times there were three dozen or so hammers all pounding at the same time. The weather was a cool and a damp 50 degrees, but the Cub Scouts were universally excited about the projects and very patient. Many of them were holding a hammer for the first time. One small girl (Cub Scouts are both boys and girls) after successfully hammering a nail yelled “I LOVE TO BUILD THINGS!” The woodworking members returned safely to Des Moines even though at least one of the members had a thumb that was a little flatter then at the start of the day. ![]() |
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