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Hello Leaflets:
As this quarter and school year comes to the end, I hope you’ll share a reflective essay of your experiences during the LEAF School while answering the questions posted below. While for some of you, this means the end of your three quarter sequence of Human Ecology and you’ll have lots of reflect upon. For others, this may be your first quarter in LEAF but I am sure you have changed a bit since the first day of class. Please share:

What was your most significant learning experience this quarter?

What elements of the class contributed most to that learning experience?

Web link:
Fall LEAF School Reflection.
Winter LEAF School Reflection.

A couple weeks ago Center for Service-Learning celebrated their accomplishments and highlighted service-learning projects for the past school year. It was a night filled with great music by Arlie Neskahi & Eagle’s Jump and organic snacks prepared by the campus’s catering department.

The event started early at 5:30pm with students setting up presentation and posters from Sarah Zale’s English 205 class: War as Myth, Identity, and Wound. The room quickly filled with chatter and laughter as people tapped their toes to the beat of the music and giggled at pictures on the slides. Thomas Murphy, the Master of Ceremonies, greeted guest and expressed his excitement of the tremendous growth for the Center. President Jack Oharah also welcome the guest and went over some of the accomplishments for the year. The program highlights of the year was Profiles in the Art of Living and Voices in Wartime. Both Jennifer Inslee and Michael Wewer’s students reflected on the Profiles in the Art of Living and shared stories on how this service-learning project had changed them. Jennifer Inslee also announced her excitement for the phase two of this project coming in the academic year. The next program highlight was Voices in Wartime presented and reflected by Sarah Zale and Melissa Storm. In between these program highlights were announcements by Hayden Nichols of a new service-learning project in East Africa and by Kerrie Murphy of the chosen web design for EdCC’s Pow Wow website is Ling Chun’s design from Steve Sosa’s VISC120 class.

Listed below are the individuals and groups that received awards and/or recognition:

Service-Learning Student of the Year: Penny Green

Volunteer of the Year: Cari Pendergrass

Students in Service Member of the Year: Sandra Kilian

Service-Learning Faculty of the Year: Marie Johnson

Volunteer Group of the Year: S.A.V.E. the Earth Club

Community Partner of the Year: WSU Extension

Campus Service-Learning Partner of the Year: College Relations

AmeriCorps Retention Project: Jacklin Edwards, Jesus Silva, Penny Green

Students in Service graduates: Corbin Powell, Gerard Ah-Fook, Kristi Gutierrez, John Wennberg, Joseph Contreras, Lisa Quirk, Luke Pirie, Margarita Naumchik, Mary Andrews, Megan Lockhart, Mindi Hart, Nataliya Naumchik, Penny Green, Ryan Gilmore, Sabrina Berthold, Sandra Kilian, Yin Yu

Web links:
Arlie Neskahi & Eagle’s Jump
Campus Catering
Celebration Program

Edmonds could move to be the first city in the state to ban single-use plastic bags at all retail outlets: Plastic Bag Ban.

This post is from Jackie Edwards:
May 15, 2009, TRiO and the Global Volunteers club (ISS) partnered with Clothes For Kids on a service-learning work party.

Clothes For Kids assists families in Snohomish County with clothing needs for children, and adults (young and mature) who are working to obtain or retain employment. The projected commitment, for this past school year, was to provide for 4,000 families. As of today May 29th, 2009 CFK has provided clothing for over 5,100 in our local community. This could not have been possible without the generous donations from the community, of items, money and precious time to sort and prepare clothing for the shopping experience.

Thirteen students and two staff members contributed to the preparation for the once a year Charity Rummage Sale which is open to the public.

Friday, June 16th 10:00AM-4:00PM
Saturday, June 27th 10:00AM-4:00PM
Sunday, June 28th 11:00AM-3:00PM

Over 50 large boxes of gently used and new, donated clothing were sorted, hung on hangers, and on racks to set-up the ‘shopping floor’.

June is Back Pack Recycle Month at Clothes For Kids

16725 52nd Avenue West, Suite B
Lynnwood, Washington 98037
Office: (425) 741-6500
Fax: (425) 741-6511
office@clothesforkids.org

Community Spaghetti Feed and Auction at Trinity Lutheran Church
Fundraiser for Edmonds Community College Student Association Project Home

May 30th, 2009 (Saturday) from 12:00-2:00 with a live Auction and ‘rummage sale items’

Trinity Lutheran Church
6215-196th St. SW
Lynnwood WA 98036

All proceeds benefit the Project Home Association of Edmonds Community College. The goal is to build funds in order to support our homeless students in the areas of transition housing, emergency funds, skill building education around life advancement activities, and food. Tickets are available the day of at the door.

Nicole A Allen
Executive Officer for Diversity
ASEdCC_Diversity@edcc.edu

Volunteers are encourge to post their reflection here.