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12 | March 7, 2019 | The highland park landmark news
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Celebrating 150 Years
City plans to achieve 150 service projects in 2019
Submitted by the City of
Highland Park
The City of Highland
Park’s HP150 Service
Committee needs your
help achieving 150 service
projects to commemorate
the 150th anniversary of
the City’s founding in
1869.
If you or your organization,
school, club, place of
worship, or business is coordinating
a service project
or volunteer initiative,
please contact Marietta
Stevens at the Volunteer
Pool of Highland Park at
info@volunteerpoolhp.
org or call (847) 433-2190
with a short description
of the service project, its
impact, and a photograph
after the project has been
completed. HP150 Service
Projects can be as simple
as volunteering at your
local animal shelter or
picking up trash at a park.
2019 Service Projects
1. The HP Community
Foundation’s project at
Martin Luther King Day
of Service was to make
150 “grab and Go bags”
for the police, firefighters,
snow plow drivers, and
other first responders.
2. The Rotary Club
of Highland Park made
500 food bags and wrote
empowering notes for
WINGS, an organization
which helps adults and
children escaping from domestic
violence and abuse.
3. The American Legion
of Highland Park helped
participants at Martin Luther
King Day of Service
write letters to hospitalized
Veterans at James Lovell
Federal Healthcare Center.
The Legion delivers letters
and coordinates activities
such as Bingo.
4. SCOPE (Summer
Camp Opportunities Promote
Education) volunteers
wrote letters to
children in summer camp
wishing them a wonderful
experience. SCOPE raises
money for low- income
families to send kids to
Camp Greenwood. The
nonprofit, national organization
has sent over 2,000
kids to camp and believes
summer camp encourages
learning and enhances
overall academic learning.
5. Edgewood’s Girl
Up Club completed a toiletries/sanitary
product
The Board of Directors for the Volunteer Pool of Highland
Park baked cookie bags that were distributed to
the senior housing buildings in Highland Park. Photos
submitted
drive for P.A.D.S of Lake
County, delivering several
boxes of these items to the
shelter. The club is an affiliate
of the United Nations
and focuses on advocacy
and fundraising efforts in
the areas of female education,
health, safety, leadership,
and documentation.
The group fundraises to
support SchoolCycle,
which aims to help eliminate
one of the biggest obstacles
keeping girls out of
school.
6. Earlier this year
the Girl Up Club raised
enough money to send 20
girls in Uganda to school
for an entire year.
7. The Board of Directors
for the Volunteer Pool
of Highland Park baked
150 valentines cookie
bags that were distributed
to two of the senior
housing buildings in
Highland Park in honor of
the City’s sesquicentennial.
We think everyone
deserves a Valentine treat
and we value all the residents
in the Highland Park
Housing Buildings.
Celebrating 150 Years is a
bi-weekly column submitted
by the City of Highland Park,
in which they outline the
progress of the 150 service
projects the City plans to
achieve in honor of Highland
Park’s 150th anniversary.
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