Meeting November 14th

Hello! This is what we discussed at the meeting yesterday:

We have decided that we wanted to do at least 2 volunteer ideas before winter break. The 2 ideas we decide on are:

• Soup Kitchen (research to be found out by Jamie)
• Giving Tree (research to be found out by Maddie)

The other volunteer ideas we decide on along with the people who volunteered to do research on it are:

• C.A.S.A. (Cole)
• S.O.L.V. (Vanessa)
• Save the Music (Sammie)
• Spread the Word to End the Word (Spencer)
• Adopting a street and picking up trash from it (Grace)
• Caring Closet (Emma)
• Habitat for Humanities (Caylee)

We also decided that we were going to participate on the December 6th Holiday Mixer (which is during access time) (research being done by our advisor, aka the wonderful Bowman). Not much information has been given, but it has been confirmed that the G.S.A. (Gay Straight Alliance) and S.T.O.P. club will also participate.

An awareness we talked about yesterday was about palm oil. It is about (please correct me if I'm wrong):

• Found in candy and food
• Grown by the palm plants (not really sure)
• Usually grown in tropical areas (such as the rainforest)
• Grown on plantations that require random holes in the middle of the forest to be made
• Curious (?) orangatans* try to go around the holes
• No animal is known to eat the plant
• Plantation owners think they are
• The plantation owners shoot them and kill them
• Population is going down
• DON'T EAT FOODS WITH BAD PALM OIL.

We also mentioned about Invisible Children, but more information will come soon about that later. Have a great week and Thanksgiving school free week!

-Grace :]]