Help Wanted: The Port O’Connor Community Service Club has immediate opening for hard working, fun loving volunteers able to laugh and have fun while serving the community in a variety of roles. You may be asked to work with great people, try new things, support your neighbors or do something that makes a difference. Open hearts and willing hands required. Training provided. For more information or to apply please contact Marie Hawes at 361-920-2322 or apply in person at the club meetings on the 1st and 3rd Thursdays of each month, 10:00 a.m. at the POC Community Center. Compensation will be determined by your investment in the position.
The POC Community Service Club is back at work after a short holiday break. Spring Garage Sale, Warriors Weekend, Crawfish Festival, the next edition of the Club Cookbook and Summer fun is all coming up quickly now and POC Service Club has a full calendar with lots of work to do. More recipes are needed for our cookbook, so if you have any to share please let us know. We still need your donations of clothing and quality home goods for the April Garage Sale and pick up is available if needed. We are preparing now to accept scholarship applications from POC Elementary Alumni who will graduate and pursue college or career training this year. Contact your school counselor or one of our club members for more information.
A quick update on the 2015 Toy Run success: it is the 11th year for the toy run project and the 20th for Angel Tree, 2,916 children were blessed by donations in 2015 including children from 10 auxiliary organizations including Foster Care, Adoption Projects, Calhoun County Sheriff’s Brown Santa, Port Lavaca Police Blue Santa, the Harbor, Kid’s Connection, several smaller school districts and others. Forty-six angels were adopted and gifted locally in POC. And thankfully, Toy Run will return next year. What a perfect picture of holiday spirit and generosity! Thanks to all who helped, donated, sorted, shopped, adopted or otherwise participated. Without you all there would be no reach to our run.
Stay tuned for news of happenings in Service Club and in our community. Things like the POC Warriors Weekend Muster, Victoria Muster, Sweetheart Banquet and other great events will be here before you know it. So keep connected, you won’t want to miss a thing.
So, until next time, be safe, live simply, love openly, forgive generously and remember what great writer and inspirer William Arthur Ward said ‘Three keys to more abundant living: caring about others, daring for others, sharing with others.’ Do you need a key to open some new doors in the New Year? We can help.
