Wednesday, May 16, 2012

More May Helpers in Busy Final Month of Regular School Year

Notes from Margaret Gorman, Meal Packet Coordinator

The Cadette Girl Scouts of Troop 146 used a recent meeting to assemble 48 meal packets. Their leader is Kathy MacEldowny. Troop 146 uses various locations for their meetings, but their most recent meeting was held at the Thomas Jefferson Memorial Church Unitarian Universalist, where the church children assemble their meal packets. We so appreciate the girls spending some their hard-earned cookie money to buy items for the full-day meal packets and for taking time out of their year-long celebration for the Centennial for Girl Scouting to help out the people at the UVA Hospital.

Happy Anniversary to all the Girl Scouts. We hope you and your fellow Girl Scouts have a great time at the Girl Scout Sing-Along in Washington, DC on June 9th. To learn more about this upcoming celebration, see http://100.gscnc.org/rtm_about.html.

Angela & Julia Shopping
Western Albemarle High School Key Club in Crozet, VA has completed collection of meal packet items. They have scheduled another service project at the school on Thursday, May 17th during the 12:20 PM class period with the objective of assembling 100 full-day meal packets. This is the second time this school year that the Key Club has dedicated a project of meal packet production for the IHS Food Program for the UVA Hospital. The last assembly session at the school was February 16th. Special thanks to Julia Updike, President of the Key Club, and Angela Li, Project Coordinator for this project.
We know that you are all involved with studies for final exams and other end of year activities, and this show of support at this time is very much appreciated. Have a great summer!

Meal Packet Program could use assistance for Summer Months

We fully recognize that these final weeks of May are fully occupied for all school ages, and parents. For those who are still having scout meetings, school club activities, Sunday School classes, or other group activities, please consider a full-day meal packet project during the summer months, or look ahead as you plan service projects from September forward.  

Final Reminder: A group as small as a family unit can make a big impact on this special program for the indigent population who come from hundreds of miles to the UVA Medical Center. If you need an example of a family of four actively helping, and lead by Alex (6) and Kate (4), then scroll back to the April 7th blog and read about the Cheng family of Charlottesville. Over a period of months they produced 30 full-day meal packets. Learn all you need to know by accessing the following link:


for downloading a guide for making a full-day meal packet.


Thanks for your on-going consideration ... T. Wade Clegg III

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