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Student Leo Club kicks off service year
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Neighbors | Emily Gianetti.Maggie Sturm (left), Jessica Tseng, Kaitlyn Dastoli and Nick Tocicki (right) posed with the canned goods donated at the Leo Club bonfire.
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The Canfield Leo Club has nearly 100 members this year and many came to the recent kickoff event.
By EMILY GIANETTI
Canfield High School’s Leo Club hosted a kickoff bonfire at dusk on Oct. 8 at the home of one of its members with nearly 30 people attending to meet their fellow Leos, play games and cook food over the fire.
Since the Leo club is a service organization, members made the event a charitable one. All who attended were asked to bring cans to donate to Second Harvest Food Bank and a total of 73 cans were collected.
“They had a kickoff party last year,” said president Jess Tseng of the drive. “We wanted to do something like that but also make it meaningful.”
Her fellow officers this year include vice president Spencer Saylor, secretary Maggie Sturm, treasurer Annie McGlone and public relations officer Kaitlyn Dastoli.
The Leo Club is comprised of 90 members from all four grades. It is a nonprofit volunteer organization sponsored by the Canfield Lions Club, a service organization as well.
Over the course of the 2011-2012 school year, projects will include Soles 4 Souls, an October shoe drive that will send shoes to children overseas. The club will help with a Lions Club food drive in November. Operation Christmas Child, a project in which Leo members fill shoeboxes with toiletries and send them to children across the world, is also set for November.
For Tseng, it is the joy of helping others that keeps her coming back to the club.
“I’ve been in Leo Club for six years and every time I come back because I love helping my community. I want to give back.”