Moon Valley Tattler November 2016

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November November 2016

www.MoonValleyTattler.com

VOL 36 No. 11

Mountain Sky Teens Wake Up! BY PERRY MASON You might see them in the neighborhood or at a community event working, sweating, but having a good time together performing public service. Their goal is to wake up! Get out! And make a difference in their world. While they have the motivation, the time, and the energy, they surprisingly don’t have the reputation for such work because they are middle schoolers. That’s right! Students at Mountain Sky Junior High have elected to be part of a club focused purely on being good citizens and performing community service through weekly meetings and monthly outings. Paid for by a Moon Valley Neighborhood Alliance approved block watch grant, the Wake Up! Club is run in conjunction with the MVNA block watch, City of Phoenix Police Department, and Mountain Sky Junior High. The intent of such grants is to help students wake up to the world and see the possibilities for helping in the community and learning about being good citizens. Each Wake Up! Club is assigned a City of Phoenix School Resource Officer to deliver law related education (LRE) and provide resources for the club like speakers and opportunities. The Officer assigned to Mountain Sky’s Wake Up! Club is Officer Sara Hall, a veteran to the North Valley who has a heart for helping youth make good decisions in life. The Wake Up! Club will be busy this year. Already the small but mighty 25 BY NOLAN HOIBY teens have worked at St. Mary’s Food Bank giving up their Labor Day weekend and impressing the staff with their speed and efficiency. In Boys team charity (btc) is a volunteer service an hour and a half, the group packaged 17,000 meals organization dedicated to developing an altruistic spirit for the elderly, who depend on those boxes. The group in young men, grades 7-12, through active participation worked so hard and so fast they finished an hour ahead of parents and sons in philanthropic projects in their of schedule. While working, they were even told to shut communities. The boys team charity North Valley League down to take a fifteen-minute break for water because members live throughout the North Central Valley of the staff were worried they were getting overheated. After Phoenix AZ. The focus of our organization is growing, ten minutes, the group was begging to get back to work. learning and giving back to the community together. Sweaty faces and cut hands did not diminish their Currently btc is in the middle of our active year which sense of accomplishment. Dancing to the music while runs May through April. Each year we partner with working and giving each other high fives, the group 20 different philanthropies around the valley donating laughed while making hundreds of boxes, placing over 3000 service hours and 200 personal donations thousands of canned and packaged food into those boxes, to these organizations. We currently have 132 families and breaking down other boxes to be recycled. “I love and 155 boys in our North Valley League. I have had working here together to help other people. There are the privilege of being in the “middle” of btc as I am the people who are starving and need water to stay hydrated. middle brother. My older brother is a senior in high These could be family members or friends, and I want to school active in his sixth year with btc. Each year the help”, said new 7th grade member Jordan. senior class chooses one philanthropy to work with to The week prior to going, the Wake Up! Club spent do a major project. This year’s senior class is working on their weekly meeting learning about St. Mary’s Food Bank redeveloping the playground at St. Vincent de Paul though research. “They were impressed to know that St. Dream Center in south Phoenix. It was great having for h Darcy a dog available Mary’s Food Bank was the first of its ...Continued on page 3 Cade and Nolan Hoiby wit ...Continued on page 3 cue & placement

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