Active Kids, Good Hearts

I was at one of our Key Clubs today. It was a great meeting, just the officers but a great meeting nonetheless. Both of our Key Clubs do good things for the community but one has really coalesced into a smooth running and productive club. At the district convention at the end of the year they brought home three awards. A nice way to end the year. This club is already working on their calendar for next year and wants to work with the other club. This would be great because maybe some of the good habits will be adopted by the other.

The club that is excelling has a little more in its favor. It is a smaller school with fewer activities to interfere with Key Club meetings. The other club comes from a huge school where the are many other clubs with mandatory meetings, so the Key Club loses out. All of the different Honor Societies have mandatory meetings.

They are both great clubs and it is an honor to work with them. It is good to see kids involved in the community and helping others. They make and send Holiday cards to the troops overseas. They hold many different fundraisers to support their causes and to donate to charity. Both clubs took a big trip to Boston to see the Kiwanis Pediatric Trauma Institute so they could see first hand where some of their money goes to, and see some of the young patients in their care. We hold bike rodeos for area children where we provide helmets at no charge and the Key Clubs always help with that.

Being at the smaller school was especially exciting seeing all that they have planned for next year. They already have most of their calendar done. They are in contact with the District Lt. Governor to see what district projects there are that they can participate in. And to start the new year they are going to have a bonding meeting at an apple orchard or the area ball field where they will stay for about two hours, do some work and then have a picnic.

I am going to bring some of their ideas to the larger club, with their blessing of course, to see if they can get some momentum going. The larger club has expressed an interest in joining forces but it has never happened, too much going on. I am looking forward to the coming year for our Key Clubs. Two remarkable groups of kids that are working for a common good. I am sure that they will work out kinks that multiple clubs cause. It is a new year and all new officers taking the reins and I know that nothing but good will come in the new school year. Nice Guys all.