Daniel T. Connor
Superintendent

227 Main Street
Goshen, NY 10924
(845) 615-6720

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View the June letter from the Youth Ending Hunger Club

June 19, 2012 - We would like to take this opportunity to thank all of you for your generosity and benevolence in helping the Youth Ending Hunger Club with our work to end hunger both locally and globally. We appreciate all the food, school supplies, toiletries, holiday gifts, and other items that you sent in over the course of the year.

As you are most likely aware, we served close to 90 local families in need this year and we want you to know that your donations were greatly appreciated. Thanks also for your support of our two Bingo nights, our cookie sale to benefit Habitat for Humanity, the CROP Walk, and Trick-or-Treat for UNICEF.

The children did a great job of decorating cards and envelopes to accompany the food baskets that we sent out. They also helped to pack the baskets, trying to include all the food groups in each one. Special thanks go to the parents who helped to pack and deliver baskets, those who helped out with our cookie project, those who attended and those who sent their children to our meetings and picked them up afterward. We could not have accomplished what we did without your continuing assistance.

The Youth Ending Hunger Club held its annual ice cream social for all members on June 8. The children had the opportunity to honor a volunteer that they admired by interviewing that person and writing an essay to present at the meeting. That was our last meeting of the school year.

We do plan to have two summer meetings to be held at Mrs. Dropkin's house. We will be calling members to notify them of the dates.

Speaking of Mrs. Dropkin, she is retiring from her teaching position at Goshen Intermediate School and we want to thank her for her 10 years of service as teacher advisor to the club. She has assured us, however, that she will continue to help out with the club. In fact, with her new schedule as a retiree, she may be able to devote even more time to the Youth Ending Hunger Club. We wish her the best in her retirement, and we are happy that she will continue with us.

Our next project is our school supplies project. We will be collecting school supplies over the summer and identifying school children in the families we work with, as well as the grade they will be entering in September. If you wish to donate supplies over the summer, you may leave them at GIS in boxes marked for the Youth Ending Hunger Club.

Our procedure is to deliver items to the students a few days before school starts. Also, if you would like to help with the organization of the project, please contact Mrs. Dropkin or one of the other advisors. We will be discussing details at our first summer meeting.

Once again, we thank you for your ongoing support and participation.

Sincerely,
Youth Ending Hunger Club