Service Station - Abington School District
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Service Station - Abington School District
April, 2015, has arrived!! Service Station Abington School District Abington, PA Celebrate Trees... Annual Arbor Day Celebrations Saturday, April 25 Noon – 2pm at Grove Park 1383 Easton Road, Roslyn PA 19001 Tree planting workshop Tree City USA award presentation Keep America Beautiful litter cleanup (park and stream) Please join the Abington Shade Tree Commission and the EAC in a celebration of trees and community. For more information, contact the Shade Tree Commission at [email protected]. (14+) Holy Redeemer Pancake Breakfast Saturday, April 12th 7:45 - 2:00 PM. Volunteers will help serve yummy pancakes, sausages, coffee and beverages, clean tables and help clean up. The shifts are as follows: 7:45AM-11:00 AM or 10:45 AM-2:00 PM Breakfast will be held at the Provincialate of the Sisters of the Holy Redeemer, 521 Moredon Road, Huntingdon Valley, PA 19006. Please sign up to participate (14+). The Abington Art Center in Jenkintown is seeking summer camp interns to assist campers and teachers with Summer Art Camp. The kids are ages 4-12. You are responsible for sending your name and a paragraph about yourself to [email protected] if you are interested. (14+) Stephanie Marchak Studio School & Exhibitions Director; 215•887•4882 The Audubon History Project Tuesday and Thursdays Info and Intro: April 16 Meet after school in the Library Classroom You will work with a partner to digitalize records of bird sightings dating back to 1935. This will help scientists learn about migration and climate warming. Everyone is invited to attend the introduction to see if this project is right for you. Service hours are awarded for the time you contribute, which may be after school, during lunch or study halls. Sign up in the Service Office. (14+) SENIOR HIGH ONLY! Tuesday, April 14 5pm – 8:40pm We will be assisting with a variety of tasks to serve the children helped by C2C. Tasks include cleaning toys and counting game pieces, stocking book shelves, sorting clothing donations, and more. Please meet at the flagpole. Permission forms are required. Tuesday, April 21 2:50 – 8:30pm Only Junior High Students who have not participated at MANNA before: Meet in the Main Office. Space is limited to the first six students who return permission forms. We cook. We pack food. Bring $ for a fast food dinner. Wear sturdy, closed-toe shoes. Dress for the weather. Permission form required. (14+) Check out the Service Station Spring Supplement for info on area Walks and Runs. http://www.abington.k12.pa.us/shs/?page=S McKinley Dragon ervice+Stations McKinley Spring Fling Friday, May 1st 3:15-8:15pm 17 Games!! Food! You must sign up to volunteer. (14+) Art Showcase Wednesday, April 22 6:00-10:00pm Sign up required (14+) Willow Hill May Fair May 1st 4:30 – 8:30pm Volunteers will help run the games and clean up. (14+) Spring Fair at Copper Beech Saturday, May 16, 2015 The Spring Fair, one of the most loved events at Copper Beech, is quickly approaching! Interested volunteers must sign up electronically by picking up the information and website form from the Service Learning Office or the Junior High Library Cart, or go to http://www.signupgenius.com/go/ 70a0b4ca8a62ba02-20151 Please look through the numerous volunteer slots and sign up to help make this another successful spring fair! YOU CAN SIGN UP FOR MORE THEN ONE TIME SLOT IF YOU WANT TO MOVE FROM ONE GAME TO ANOTHER AFTER BEING THERE FOR AT LEAST the time LISTED! (14+) Roslyn Elementary (14+) May Fair May 17, 2015 9:30-4:30 11th Annual Philadelphia Tri-State Walkabout & Autoimmune Disease Health Fair At the Philadelphia Zoo! Saturday, May 2, 2015 (This is an SAT test date) Volunteers must arrive by 7:30 AM and you will be free to visit the Zoo exhibits at 11:30 AM. You will receive 6 hours of service learning credit for your work. Duties: Set up, give out T-shirts, direct people, answer questions and/or other, as-needed, functions to be decided as event date approaches. (14+) The Sjogren’s Syndrome Foundation (SSF ), helps people living with this chronic autoimmune disease in which a person’s white blood cells attack their moistureproducing glands. Today, as many as 4 million Americans are living with this disease. http://events.sjogrens.org/site/TR?fr_id=1040&pg=ent ry Overlook Spring Fair Friday, May 8th 4:30 – 8:00pm Sign up on line! (14+) www.SignUpGenius.com/go/20F0B49AEA62 BA3FD0-2015 Montessori Children's House 220 Upland Ave in Horsham 9th Annual International Family Fun Festival Saturday, April 25th 10am – 4pm (Lunch included! Stay later to help clean up if you are able.) This huge family festival celebrates different cultural backgrounds to raise money for our not-for-profit pre-school. We need help with are running simple games (like a bean bag toss), arts and craft stations, ticket booths, etc. The festival draws over 700 attendees and we really need a lot of hands to help with activities. Contact Cassandra Willard at [email protected] if you can help. (14+) Highland Spring Fling! Saturday, April 25th Two Shifts: 9am – 1pm Noon – 4pm Face Painters are encouraged to sign up! (14+) Permission forms are now available, on a first-comefirst-served basis for the following Elementary School Field Days: Copper Beech – May 6 McKinley – May 7 Sign-ups for Service Learning Day begin May 1st. Window of Opportunity: Friday, May 1st – Sunday, May 31st Key Club April Events: 1) Wednesday, April 8th = Board Meeting for all OLD & NEW Board members in room 117 at 2:45pm 2) Wednesday, April 15th = Member Meeting in the Audion at 2:45pm 3) Saturday, April 11th = Special Athletes Tournament at Hatboro-Horsham High School (sign-up outside room 117) 4) Saturday, April 18th = "Bowing for Bear" Bowling Tournament vs. Upper Moreland HS at Thunderbird Lanes from 7:30-9:30pm (cost is $20 for unlimited black-light bowling, shoes, and food) Willow Hill – May 8 Overlook – May 11 Rydal – May 12 Highland – May 15 Roslyn – May 28 (Prom) There is no transportation provided. You may attend only ONE field day event. Field Day activities DO NOT count for Service Learning Day. You must have attended the school where the field day is taking place. Space is limited. Permission form required. PA Department of Conservation and Natural Resources Applications are available online for students interested in ECO Camp, DCNR’s free camp for high school students interested in pursuing a career in recreation, conservation, or natural resources. ECO Camp July 12-17, 2015 Kirby House near Wilkes-Barre, PA Applications due April 15th Download the application and learn more about ECO Camp here: http://www.dcnr.state.pa.us/stateparks/ecocamp/ind ex.htm. Quilts and permission forms are NOW DUE for the trip to St. Christopher’s Hospital on April 15th . You must turn in a completed quilt and permission form in order to participate in the trip. See Mrs. Rodgers or Ms. Anello for details. VFW Post #676 Memorial Day Flag Placement Join members of Post #676 to help honor fallen soldiers by placing more than 5000 new American flags on their graves. Each Saturday and Sunday from May 2nd through May 17th, from 10am – 3pm, you will meet at the VFW on Jenkintown Road in Glenside, and then go to either Holy Sepultures or Hillside Cemetery to lay the flags. Lunch will be provided. You must sign up for this opportunity to work alongside our Veterans. You may participate on one day or more days of service. (14+) Girls on the Run 5K Event With 2,000 runners expected this year, lots of help is needed. Can you help with any of the following events? Thursday, May 7 : 5pm-8pm. Packet Assembly night, Wissahickon High School. 520 Houston Rd. Ambler, PA 19002. 60 volunteers needed. Contact Angela Henry to sign up. [email protected] th Saturday, May 9 : 10:00-4:00 Packet pick-up. 1-2 volunteers needed for 2-3 hour shifts at each running store site to hand out packets to coaches only (16 volunteers total). Contact Angela Henry for Locations. [email protected] th Saturday, May 16 Time TBD. Wissahickon High School, Race day preparation. 20-30 volunteers needed. th Saturday, May 16 1-2 volunteers (16 total) at each running store site for 3 hour shifts to hand out race day packets to community runners/running buddies/parents. th Sunday, May 17 7am-11am: Race day! 100 volunteers needed. th ****Please join us at our monthly meetings to learn how you can be a part of this special day for the girls. 5K preparation meetings are from 78:30pm in our Springhouse office. Dates in 2015 are: 4/9; 4/27; 5/4. Please RSVP to: [email protected] for directions to meeting site. Please contact: [email protected] or: 215-429-4663 for additional information. Be a part of this inspiring day!! 24 Hour Relay Volunteer Positions Saturday, May 16: Food Tent (prepare meals and snacks, serve, clean-up) Lunch: 10am – 2pm or Dinner: 2:30 – 6:30 Sunday, May 16: Breakfast: 6am – 10am May 1st: An important date to remember! Friday, May 1st - This is the day when 10th and 11th graders may begin to sign up for Service Learning Day activities. Service Learning Day will be held on Friday, May 29th. This is also the day that a COPY of your log sheet is due to the Service Learning Office or the Junior High Library, if you have 50 or more hours of service. Include all of your service from last June 1st (2014) to this coming May 31st (2015). All service work you performed last summer counts. If you total fifty or more hours of service, you qualify for a service award. All you have to do is put a COPY (just a copy ) of your log sheet in the box in the Junior High Library or turn it in to the Service Office on, or before May 1st. You may also count your May, 2015, hours by estimating the service hours you will perform that month. (For example, sophomores and juniors will get 5 hours on Service Learning Day….24-Hour Relay = 12 hours, etc. These hours count toward your total.) Don’t forget. A copy of your Log sheets is due by May 1st if you have 50 hours of service or more and would like to receive a service award. LATE LOG SHEETS WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED. Briar Bush Nature Center Schools Out! Get Outside! April 2, 3 & 6 8:30am – 5pm Help BBNC staff work with children in kindergarten through 6th grade. This program features unique activities including hikes, games, live animals, crafts and much more. Sign up for one day or the entire series. Pack a lunch; snack provided. Sign-up required. Abington Junior National Honor Society Members: Remember you need 3 meeting credits. If you participated in the Kindergarten Book trip, you have met this requirement. In April, making a Brady's Smiles Blanket will count as a meeting, whichever you prefer. Please come, sign up in room 112 for a time slot. Our next formal meeting will be April 16th after school in the Little Theater. An admissions representative from the University of Pennsylvania will speak to us. Mt. Airy Day 6400 Germantown Avenue, Philadelphia Saturday May 2. (Rain Date: May 3, 2015) 11AM - 5PM Students can sign-up directly online by: 1) going to http://www.mtairyday.org/volunteerinfo.htm 2) clicking on the link for "students" 3) There they will see the various jobs and times and they can sign up for whatever they want to do. If they sign up to volunteer, they should receive a reminder a couple days before the event. For students who are not able, or do not wish to signup online, they can contact me at [email protected] or 484-868-1737. Abington Free Library Spring Book and Plant Sale and Flea Market Saturday, April 18 9 to 3:30 Contact Linda Connelly at [email protected] if you would like to have a flea market space at the sale. Some volunteers are needed: sign up is required. (14+) Join AB-TAB – Abington Library’s Teen Advisory Board AB-TAB members plan library programs, vote on new library materials, and have fun while earning service hours. Fill out an application at the Information Desk, on our website (abingtonfreelibrary.org/teens) or email Lindsay Cummings, Young Adult Librarian, at [email protected]. Abington Social Club Dance Saturday, April 18th 6:45 – 9:15pm Carmel Presbyterian Church Edge Hill & Mt. Carmel Roads Sign up (14+) SENIORS!! The Susanna DeLaurentis Memorial Scholarships are awarded each year to collegebound high school seniors with superior academic and extracurricular achievements who contend with a chronic disease or other serious challenge to physical or mental health. Honorees are selected by an independent committee of evaluators, and are announced in May. Award: The scholarship is a $1,000 award, paid directly to the honoree’s institution of higher learning. Application: Applications are available in the Service Office and must be received by FRIDAY, APRIL 14, 2014. www.thesusannafoundation.org The Abington EAC needs your help to clean-up and beautify Abington's parks and public spaces. Clean-ups are a great way to make a difference in your neighborhood. We report our results to the Great American Cleanup of PA.* In Pennsylvania last year, volunteers picked up 6.3 million pounds of trash, and planted 31,000 trees. What a difference! The EAC provides free snacks, trash bags, gloves and safety vests. Info at Facebook/AbingtonEAC, www.eac-abington.org. Sign up required (14+) Saturday, April 11 1:00-3:00 Roslyn Ridge (Easton Rd & Susquehanna Rd, diagonally across from Roslyn train station) Sunday, April 12 10am – 1pm, Roychester Park, meet near Community House Saturday, April 18 9:00-Noon; Sandy Run at Roberta Ave and Cleveland Ave (behind Overlook Elem) Saturday, April 25 9:00-Noon Keswick Ave Train Underpass Garden (Keswick Ave & Mt. Carmel Ave) CONTACT: Robin Irizarry [email protected]/215.744.1853 Registration Now Open: Students $10 Ages 12 & under - Free Walkers - Free REGISTRATION IS NOW OPEN FOR SPARK THE WAVE WEEK 2015 Wave Week is one of the premier serviceleadership training programs in the United States – and will be one of the best weeks of your life. Through our intensive 6-day program of leadership development, community service, team building activities and summer fun you will learn how to plan and execute better service projects while building stronger teams. Wave Week welcomes students who completed 6th grade through 11th grade during the school year preceding Wave Week. Delegates are divided into two tracks based upon their age (6-8th grade & 9th-11th grade). Each track meets separately for most activities and for dorm assignments. Meals, social events, and large group activities and service projects incorporate both tracks. We hold two sessions of Wave Week, and would love to see you at both weeks! Wave Week @ Villanova: July 12 – 17 Wave Week @ Georgetown: July 26 – 31 Please go to http://www.sparkthewave.org/waveweek/ for more information. H2O for Life Presents SuperSmash Bros Tournament Friday, May 1 2:45 – 5pm $7 per person. Sign up required. More info soon. Everyone is welcome to join H2O for Life as we learn about global careers in Public Health. Dr. Christiaan Morssink (biography below) will speak to all who are interested about global labor, population issues and medical careers which all tie into majors in Public Health. If you are interested in a future career where you can help people and have a desire to focus on international opportunities, then please join us on Friday, April 17th at 2:45 in the Audion. Dr. Morssink is Adjunct Professor of Public Heath and Global Population at the University of Pennsylvania. He holds degrees in cultural anthropology and nonWestern sociology from the University of Amsterdam in the Netherlands, a MPH from Johns Hopkins, and a Ph.D. in Health Policy and Administration from the University of Illinois at Chicago School of Public Health. Dr. Morssink has 30+ years of practice and teaching experience in public health and related fields in the Netherlands as well as in the Republic of Suriname, where he was head of the Department of Planning and Project Management in the Ministry of Health, and in the US. Dr. Morssink is President of both the United Nations Association of Greater Philadelphia and the Global Water Alliance. He sits on the board of the Project for Nuclear Awareness and on the advisory board of the Fairmount Water Works. His interests are many and flow from the understanding of public health is an action oriented domain of the world’s political economy; they include the effects of the built environment on health, elimination of health disparities, hunger and urban farming, and the campaign to ban and clear landmines and cluster bombs in communities around the world. (14+) Hey Rockledge Kids! Wednesday, April 22 3:30 – 5: 30 The Tookany/Tacony/ Frankford Partnership (TTF) needs your help to mark storm drains in Rockledge during Earth Week. Marked storm drains help stop litter from washing into our creeks! Storm water runoff carries trash, car oil, and other pollutants directly to the creeks in our community, harming water quality and wildlife. Be part of a neighborhood effort to protect the Tookany Creek by working with the TTF to mark storm drains with educational markers and by providing information to residents. Meet at the playground at Jarrett and Abington Avenues. Wear old clothes and shoes that might get dirty. Sign up is required. (14+) For more info, email [email protected]