Community Service

Snowflakes melt alone – but together they can be traffic stoppers!
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2011

Corbett Cares 4-H club is dedicated to community service. Each member is responsible for their own community service idea and then we, as a club, help make that project a reality. Some of our projects are listed below. Thanks for your interest in Corbett Cares 4H Club!

Operation Bottle Cap Collection

We have learned about the different types of plastics now. ( You can too by selecting here! ) We decided that there are far too many plastics ending up in our landfills, waterways and oceans. To try and do something about this, we are launching “Operation Bottle Cap Collection” this project included our kids creating collection boxes for their school classrooms, coming up with information to share with kids and teachers about how and why we were doing this, and then ultimately collecting the caps and taking them to a special collection center so these caps could be diverted from our landfills ( where they don’t ever break down ) and can be recycled and used in something else, like maybe playground equipment! Read more here!

2010

Corbett Cares 4-H club is dedicated to community service. Each member is responsible for their own community service idea and then we, as a club, help make that project a reality. See some of these projects below that Corbett Cares completed in 2010!

TRASH PICK UP IN CORBETT  [ JAN  2010 ]
Our first community service goal was to pick up trash and adopt a road in Corbett. Unfortunately, because our club members are a few years shy of 13,  we couldn’t officially adopt a road yet. We still did a fine job collecting trash on Lucas Road on MLK’s National Day of service in January 2010. The kids worked really hard and even with the bad weather we all filled our bags! ( We all agreed that picking up trash for an hour or so on a day with some wind was nothing compared to the work others, like Martin Luther King Jr. have done over the course of their lifetimes! ) * More pictures available from our Facebook page!

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ANIMAL SHELTER BLANKET DRIVE  [ FEB-MAR 2010 ]
This community service project collected blankets for the Multnomah County animal shelter. With the help of parents and students at the Corbett Grade School we collected a lot of blankets and delivered them to the shelter and also had a tour of the shelter thanks to John Rowton. More pictures available from our Facebook page!

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HARD TO RECYCLE ITEM DRIVE  [ APR-MAY  2010 ]
Spring clean. Our club is collecting hard to recycle items like rigid plastic and block styrofoam in April to take to the City of Gresham Earth Day Celebration and Recycling Event on April 24th, 2010. We will then be working on a collection bin for these items to be stationed at the Springdale School Community Center. Check back for more details! * More pictures available from our Facebook page!

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ROAD CLEAN-UP IN CORBETT  [ OCT  2010 ]
The kids picked up trash on Lucas road and we started brainstorming our next ‘big idea’! This will be a collection in the CSD lobby for hard to recycle plastic lids. * More pictures available from our Facebook page!

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YARD DEBRIS CLEAN UP  [ NOV  2010 ]
Yard work ( leaf raking, gutter cleaning, etc. ) for a community member living on her own in Corbett Oregon. * More pictures available from our Facebook page!

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” No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted. ”
–Aesop

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” How can we expect our children to know and experience the joy of giving unless we teach them that the greater pleasure in life lies in the art of giving rather than receiving. ”
–James Cash Penny

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” It is one of the most beautiful compensations of this life that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself. “
–Ralph Waldo Emerson

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” I don’t know what your destiny will be, but the one thing I know; the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve. “
–Albert Schweitzer

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” No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it for someone else. ”
–Benjamin Franklin

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” Everybody can be great because anybody can serve. You don’t have to have a college degree to serve. You don’t have to make your subject and your verb agree to serve. You only need a heart full of grace, a soul generated by love. ” –Martin Luther King Jr.

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” The miracle is this – the more we share, the more we have. ”
–Leonard Nimoy

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” We make a living by what we do, but we make a life by what we give.”
–Winston Churchill

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“Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare.”
– Japanese Proverb