Kiva Loan

The Leadership Team voted to make another loan to KIVA.

KIVA is a micro-finance organization which makes loans to entrepreneurs around the globe. More information about KIVA is found here:
http://www.kiva.org/about

For more information about our last loan: http://www.kiva.org/lend/190641

WHAT GROUP MEMBERS NEED TO DO: 

Earn one $1 and bring it to the Jan business meeting- Jan 13th. Our Service Project Coordinator will bring profiles to the meeting for us to vote on to support.

Salvation Army Bell RInging

We will be ringing bells for for the Salvation Army Red Kettle Campaign. 
We will be ringing at Price Chopper on December 20th from 10am - 2pm.

Please sign up for a time slot at a December meetings or email Melissa. You can come for an hour or stay the whole time. We will be ringing at both doors from 10-12 and then just the 'left" side from 12-2.

Feel free to bring some instruments and singing voices.

The money raised by the Salvation Army during this season is used to fund the soup kitchen and their public assitance programs for the year.

December 16 Class: Items to Bring

For Grades K and 1: 
Please bring in pictures (either drawn, colored or cut out) of the food your child ate for one whole day for the DECEMBER 16 Nutrition Class.


For Grades 6-9: 
Please bring your hydroponics design.

Christmas Craft Day

Christmas Craft Day is Dec 2, 2010. We will be meeting from 1-3. All families who have been in the group for more than 1 year are asked to bring a project. Please include instructions for your craft and the age rage it is for (ALL, K-9 PK-1, K-5, 6-9). For planning purposes: there are 30 members and 8 younger siblings.

Please bring any tins cans you may have in your recycling bins.

*IMPORTANT------ Please bring something to transport your treasures home. 

Holiday Service Project #2

Help make a child's wish come true through the Make-A-Wish Foundation.

We are collecting letters to "Santa" that will be sent to Justice White who received her wish a 5 years ago. She wants other kids to get their wishes. She learned that Macy's is willing to donate $1 to the Make-A-Wish Foundation for every letter to Santa they receive. She wants to take the letters to Macy's in December. She hopes to receive a 50,000 letters this year.

What do you do??--write a letter to Santa and bring it in to the group meeting on Nov. 18 or Dec. 2. If you do not acknowledge/"celebrate" the Santa aspect of Christmas, the 4Her could simply write a letter to Saint Nicholas- a real, historical figure and talk about needs in the world. Kids are welcome to write letters for their younger siblings and ask their friends for letters.

http://capitalregion.ynn.com/content/523076/granting-wishes--one-letter-at-a-time/

Sheep Pointed Event

Sunday November 14: 2-3:30pm 

Join the Clinton County Sheep Group at the White Stone Farm in Chateguay, NY. (Address: 880 County Route 35) where we will learn about Cotswold, Wenslydale, Coopsworth and Dorset Sheep. We will be introduced to the art of spinning and will learn to drop-spin with a top spindle. More information about the farm can be found on their website: http://www.whitestonefarmny.com

Operation Christmas Child

Shoeboxes for Operation Christmas Child are due Nov 18th.

Families can prepare as many shoeboxes as you wish. You can choose to do one for the entire family. Select items that fit for either a girl or boy in one of the age ranges listed: ages 2-4, ages 5-9, ages 10-14.

Suggested items to fill the boxes:
personal hygiene: toothpaste and brushes, soap, washclothes, hand sanitizers, hair supplies- combs, barrettes, etc.
school supplies: pens, pencils, pencil sharpeners, crayons, markers, paper, solar calculators, stamps and ink pads, etc.
toys and games: puzzles, jump ropes, balls, jack sets, dolls, stuff animals, toy cars, items needing batteries- please include extra batteries
older kids: consider sewing kits, tools,
clothes: t-shirts, socks, ball caps, hats, sunglasses

other: hard candy and lollipops (please double bag all candy), mints, gum,  watches, flashlights (with extra batteries) 

Consider adding a letter and/or picture from your child or family.

The boxes can be wrapped BUT the top must be separate. The top will be secured to the box with a rubber band.

Each box you prepare is requested to be accompanied by $7. (If you can't afford the amount- you can pay what you can OR just simply donate the box). You can either place a check in the box, place one check for multiple boxes in one box OR pre-pay on line. If you chose pre-pay on-line you will get a label to print out and attach to your box. You can actually track the country your box is delivered to.

To make your donation on line and track you box;
https://www.samaritanspurse.org/index.php/Giving/EZGive/?keepThis=true&TB_iframe=true&height=510&width=567


NOTE: DO NOT INCLUDE:
Used or damaged items; war-related items such as toy guns, knives or military figures; chocolate or food; out-of-date candy; liquids or lotions; medications or vitamins; breakable items such as snow-globes or glass containers; aerosol cans