Make A Difference Day was Saturday – Love A Sea Turtle hosted a beautification and garden planting at a Boys & Girls Club with about 100 volunteers! We planted mums, pansies, and vegetables, spread sand in the playground area, trimmed trees and stained new benches for seating. Cooke & Associates donated sand and poured concrete for additional sidewalks to the playground, Harvey Lewis moved the sand, Olive Garden provided lunch, and volunteers from Grady White/ER Lewis and Jarvis Boys & Girls Clubs, Men Enriching the Nation, Women of Many Enriching the Nation, Ladies of Distinction, Oakmont – Operation InAsMuch, ECU Volunteer & Service Learning Center and Love A Sea Turtle made a difference for Boys & Girls Club members.

We got an early start for our Make A Difference Day beautification project at a Boys & Girls Club. Thanks to Cooke & Associates for providing concrete sidewalk connectors to the playground!

3 buses with campers – having a great time at our Upstream Downstream Connection camps!

Love A Sea Turtle hosted MLK Day of Service with over 125 volunteers – 98 were Boys & Girls Club members! Together, we cleared and cleaned trails, removed invasive species, constructed a fossil pit, assembled fishing line recycling containers, and shared a Monday Meal.

Our Turtle Team is always ready to help and have fun! A great day spent with Boys & Girls Club members, families and friends. We provided kayaking, volleyball, badminton, fishing, nature hikes, campfire and s’mores!

ECU Honors College freshmen, Boys & Girls Club members & Love A Sea Turtle had a productive day with multiple service learning projects. 16 students and faculty joined Boys & Girls Club members and myself baking cookies, assembling 200 fishing line recycling containers, and having fun!

The Upstream Downstream Connection is an outdoor, STEM and water focused summer camp program provided free for Boys & Girls Club members. We just completed 8 weeks of camp that included a third year camp, two second year camps, and five first year camps. High school students served as camp counselors and they are an amazing group of volunteers! A celebration recognizing all the campers and counselors will take place on Boys & Girls Club Day for Kids.

The next 5 camp weeks will be first year campers from 5 different Boys & Girls Clubs. Here’s some camp highlights from the week. They were a great group with so much enthusiasm!