Elmwood Village Clean-up

Volunteers will meet at the following locations to assist with picking up trash, pushing brooms and scrubbing graffiti in the corresponding areas of the Village. After each cleanup, a one of our local businesses will host a post-clean up happy hour to say thanks to volunteers for their hard work.

- Tuesday, April 26th, 5:30pm-7:30pm - Bryant Street to Allen Street (Meet at Epic Restaurant, 431 Elmwood Ave)
- Wednesday, April 27th, 5:30pm-7:30pm - Bryant Street to Lexington Avenue (Meet at Joe's Deli, 534 Elmwood Ave)
- Thursday, April 28th, 5:30pm-7:30pm - Forest Avenue to West Delavan Ave (Meet at Mr. Goodbar, 1110 Elmwood Ave)
- Saturday, April 30th, 1:30pm-3:30pm - Lexington Avenue to West Delavan Ave (Meet at Lexington Co-Op, 807 Elmwood Ave)

All are welcome to participate. Tools and supplies will be provided, just bring your civic pride and a friend! Please RSVP.

Elephant Run Volunteers Needed - Sunday, May 8th

Now in it's 10th year, the Elephant Run honors the memory of City Honors Alumna Marcena Lozano. Marcena was only 23 years old when she died after having two heart transplants. Volunteers are needed between 8am-12pm to help set up, facilitate activities, cheer on runners, and clean up. The race promotes organ donation and raises money for scholarships for transplant recipients.

Information on volunteering can be found here.

Volunteer familiar with WordPress needed

The King Urban Life Center needs assistance with some enhancements it would like to make to its website. They are looking for one student familiar with WordPress to work on this project. This is CAS-hour eligible.

See Dr. Kresse if you are interested.

Help out at the 15th Annual Party in the Hall

Volunteers are needed for the City Honors/Fosdick-Masten Park Foundation's 15th Annual Party in the Hall. It will take place here at City Honors School the evening of Friday, April 29th. Assisting at this event would be added to the Service to School category for CAS.

Specifically, volunteers are needed to:

- help set up after school that Friday (from 2:45-5:30 pm)
- be servers during the event (5:00-8:30 pm)
- help direct cars where to park (from 5:00-7:15 pm)
- help clean up/break down after the event (8:30-9:30 pm)

You can sign up to help the entire event - or just part of it.

A sign up sheet will be located on the outside of the IB Office door starting on Monday, April 11th.

Volunteers needed at Tri-Main Indoor Street Fair on March 12, 2016

To help celebrate the 25th Anniversary of the Tri-Main Center, an “Indoor Street Fair” will be held on March 12th from 11:00-4:00pm. It will be a family friendly indoor street fair, and is in partnership with Aspire (all proceeds raised will go to Aspire).

Many volunteers are needed - especially to run the games.

For students who need creativity hours, you can design a putt-putt station for the event. Should you need a head start on building materials…. Tri-Main has wooden pallets available.

Also for creativity hours, there is a Face Painting station, Corn Hole Competition (companies/schools can donate a set/decorate it), and Balloon Animals station.

Additionally, there will be a Tricycle Obstacle Course, Hockey Shot Contest, Make & Race Hover Board, “Chalk Alley” (A string of sidewalk chalk portraits…on an entire floor!), and 25th Anniversary Community Mural (paint by numbers)

Students can sign up for a shift or for the entire day:

The shifts are: 11:00am-1:30pm and 1:30-4:00pm

If you would like to volunteer, email Jessica Edwards at: jedwards@trimaincenter.com

City Honors Relay for Life Club

A reminder that the new City Honors Relay for Life Club meets every Thursday after school from 2:45 - 3:15 pm in the LGI room.

Participation in this club would definitely count for Service and possibly Creativity or Action (Activity) depending on what the club is involved in at that time....

Yroswell Street Team - Applications Due December 7, 2015

If you are a social, high-energy individual who is enthusiastic about making a difference in the fight against cancer, you'll be a perfect fit for the Street Team!

Yroswell Street Team Responsibilities

• Educating the public about Yroswell at community events
• Passing out flyers, cancer awareness info, and promotional items at scheduled events
• Performing event set-up, breakdown and associated tasks
• Researching and coordinating community events for the Street Team to attend
• Attending Street Team get-togethers and monthly meetings
• Promoting Yroswell on Facebook and other social networks to help us spread the word
• And, most importantly, striving to create a world without cancer!

For more information, and to apply, go to: http://yroswell.com/street-team