Over 40 student members of the Fremont Elementary School K-Kids Club gathered recently in their school auditorium for the final meeting of the year. The group has been busy with service and outreach this year, doing monthly cleanups in the blocks surrounding the school, pulling weeds and gardening around the school campus, packing food with the Children’s Hunger Fund, volunteering time to work on the La Cañada Rose Parade float, and sending letters to Operation Gratitude to share with the overseas troops. They also organized the school’s lost and found closet on a bimonthly basis and collected food during the fall food drive. This busy group extended its outreach to Manhattan Beach where the members recently collected 15 pounds of trash from the beach.

The Fremont K-Kids Club is a service club sponsored by the Kiwanis Club of Glendale. The group helped with Glendale Kiwanis’ Incredible Duck Splash earlier this month by running a game booth, retrieving the rubber ducks from the lake and selling ducks for their own Duck Buddy team. At the year-end meeting on Tuesday, Glendale Kiwanis President-elect Carl Povilaitis and Kiwanis K-Kids Advisor Cathy Keen presented K-Kids president Francesca Daza with a check for $965.50 for their many hours of work with the duck race. These funds will help the K-Kids continue service in the community next year. Future projects include funding a bear statue that will be part of the school Foundation’s beautification project and painting a kindness mural on the four handball walls on the playground.

To wrap up the celebration of a successful year of service, Povilaitis and Keen served root beer floats to the group. Faculty co-advisors Tara Patton and Christina Martin and principal Vickie Atikian were on hand to join in the festivities.

Submitted by Cathy KEEN