The Community Service Club has kick-started their year by teaming up with the Leo Program, a community service club located in New Freedom. The Community Service Club hopes to help more people around the community with the help of their new partnership.

Senior Ellie Holloway, the Vice President of the club, enjoys taking part in helpful activities and working with the club’s new partner, the Leo Program.

“We got together with the Leo Program of New Freedom in order to be a part of new projects and to expand,” said Holloway. “[The team-up] has been good so far. One of our officers is going to a Leo Club meeting on November 17.”

Senior Maddy Staub believes the Leo Club will help the Community Service Club immensely in the future.

“[The Leo Program] is a community service organization that’s in New Freedom and participates in service activities in order to give back to the community,” said Staub. “They are actually helping to pay for our club’s services this year since we are partnering up with them.”

Senior Kelly Franz, the Treasurer of the club, believes the Leo Club will help the Community Service Club with providing new ideas.

“The purpose of the Leo Club is to get youth more involved in the community and allow the members to develop leadership skills,” said Franz. “We haven’t communicated with the Leo Club too much up to this point, but we will be going to a Lions Club meeting in December where we hope they will give us ideas on how to get involved in the community.”

Christmas time is said to be rough for a lot of people, especially for the orphanages and the homeless. The Community Service Club wants to help make a change and volunteer at community events that sponsor those people.

The Community Service Club meets once a month. The next meeting for the club will be take place on Friday, December 4.

“[The recent meetings] have been pretty good so far,” said Holloway. “Our President, Abby Ferraro, has had some good ideas on how to get involved [in helping the community].”

Meetings for the Community Service Club are currently taking place once a month, but the club plans to change that.

“This year, [the club] plans to make meetings more frequent,” said Staub. “We also plan on getting more officers to organize future events and activities.”

Some of the activities that helped the Community Service Club get involved included Adopt-A-Family and Canned Food Drive. The club helped set up donations in order to get canned foods out to the homeless.

In the future, the club plans to make new benches for the local park and to help clean up the rail trail in New Freedom and Railroad.

On October Fun Night, the Community Service Club was one of the clubs that took part and handed out candy to kids at Susquehannock.

“[October Fun Night] was really good. I believe that we had the most candy out of all the clubs,” said Holloway.

The Community Service Club currently meets up in the Auditorium at least once a month after school  and continues to come up with new ideas to contribute to the community.