New Service Learning Club Selling Treat Bags, Making a Difference



More than 20 EVVMS students are working hard in a new club, EV Squared Cares. It focuses on service projects that teach the students about their communities as well as having fun learning ways that they can help others in need.

Treat bags to be sold Friday after school,

featuring popcorn and candy.

This Friday, the club will sell colorful treat bags with popcorn and holiday candy after school. Parents are urged to send cash with their students to buy the bags at $1, $2 or $3. They make great last-minute gifts, so buy several! Proceeds will be split among the Nebraska Humane Society, a local Elkhorn family that the club wishes to bless, and also as seed money for the club's new initiative starting in January -- BOOK BUDDIES -- a reading program in which the students will travel to preschools and after-schools to read with children.

Club members also are going caroling on Dec. 19 at a local nursing home and one other site.

The students sold cookies after the November chorus concerts and raised $300 for Womenade, which has fielded increased requests for coats, toys, gas, food and other needs for Elkhorn families during the holidays. EVVMS parent Robin Heller, a Womenade member, spoke to the EV Squared Cares students about the types of crises that create needs that can easily be met, if more people were like the EV Squared Cares students. Club members also participated in Womenade's mitten drive, producing wrapped gifts for children and families that Womenade identified.

Mrs. Heller . . . teaching student volunteers

about family crises, and how they can help.

EVVMS counselor Theresa Schaefer is the staff leader for this new club.