Capitol Salt Lake

Such a wonderful time .  all except we couldn't find the boy scout!!! :) It's an inside joke!

 Yah! We won 2nd place in the award of Excellence competition!

 At the dance.

 Time to fill eggs for the Easter Hunt...over 10,000 eggs to go.

 Job Shadowing at WSU basketball game. Such a blast!

 USU Leadership Conference

 Good Food... guess what plate is the advisers and which is the YC members? :)

 Concert- Vocalocity

 Breakout Session we taught on Leadership!

Special Needs Dance February

 What a great activity our Youth Council planned!  These kids developed friendship to one of the neatest people!  Thanks for the great night! Suzanne loved the visiting , but hated the screeching balloons!

 We also frosted cookies and took them to our adopted grandparents at the Retirement Home!

Service Projects always on the move

Our Youth Council has been working on cars for children all over the world.  We sand and paint them then send them on to our military who takes them to children who have very little.  The cars are all different. When their little finger is placed through the window they claim ownership. They know it belongs to them!

We are working with the Rotary on the Recycling Bin Project.  We now have a bin at the Clearfield Aquatic Center, Syracuse City Hall, and West Point City Hall.  Clearfield also donated 30 pairs of shorts and 30 jerseys that we took down to the Refugee Center for the youth there.  They will be so excited to have matching teams!  We donated shin guards last spring, so now they're rearin' to go!

Also, we've got a great night for the special needs children and youth.  We are hosting a valentine dance at city hall where the kids can come meet new friends and rock out!  This will be coming soon in February!

Upcoming events

Hey Youth Council Kids...
First off, if you volunteered to make posters for the essay contest to be taken to the schools, don't forget. We're counting on you.  The essay is for all West Point residents "Why I love my City"  Cash Prizes!!! Deadline Feb. 22 and winners announced Mar. 5th.

Congrats to Avin for winning the castle ice sculpturing contest!  Woo Hoo a big winner of $25.00! That was alot of fun!  We had races too and Jared won hands down!

If anyone is coming to Legislator Day meet at my house Jan 30th at 8:00am.  Wear nice cloths like a tie and nice dress slacks or skirt.  We will be touring, sitting in during Bills, and eating at In-N-Out Burger on the way home.

If anyone wants to go to USU Leadership Conference on March 14th-16th the application forms will be available at our next meeting on Jan 16th.  The form must be filled out and brought back by the 23rd to City Hall with the registration fee of $100.00 (I'm pretty sure on fee).  It will be fun, but optional.  All of our retreats are the same type thing, so don't feel bad if you can't get away from school at this time.

 Gotta love the HAIR!

 Retreat service project with Kelly Kendell.

 Veteran Program! Harry Trease came to speak. What a treat!

All other business we'll address at our meeting. See ya there!

Yeah! Our New Council

So tonight was the swearing in ceremony!  What a great bunch of kids. I can't wait for all the fun events and activities!  We're going to have a blast!  The coolest part is... it's all free.  Not only do we get a cool t-shirt, but we get lot's of great character building experiences, and tons of service opportunities! Yippy.  Well, we can't forget Lagoon Day in July, and the awesome food and fun at our Retreats too!  Seriously no cost!  OK Ok.... so if anyone wants to go to the Conference at USU, (which is optional) that costs.  THat's the only thing, and you get the same great experiences and fun at our Retreats!  What a great program!

Summer events

Youth Council comes through again with flying colors.  West Point 4th of July activities of face painting, blow-up toys, and parade were enhanced by the service of you great kids!  Thanks so much.

Our garden flowers are growing great.  In August we plan to deliver them to the Retirement Home Residents.  Those zinnas are beautiful!

Our Lagoon Day was a blast as always!  We love and appreciate all you kids have done for our city.

A New Year!

Time is passing us by as we busily volunteer and build up our community. What better things to be doing with our extra time than this. Since our Veterans Program we have made fleece blankets for the Soldiers, collected signatures on petition forms for our anti-tobacco campaign in regards to the dissolvable nicotine tablets that we don't want brought into our State, and served hot cocoa, performed back-ground music, and entertained for the Lighting Ceremony. Many other wonderful things have taken place, like our debates and Kalebs Terrets presentation at our meetings. A small group of our Youth Council even had a wonderful, educational tour at WSU in regards to scholarships! We look forward to Legislator Day soon! Thank you Youth! YOU MAKE IT HAPPEN!

Success! Well done Youth Council

First thank you all so much for the successful Veteran Program Saturday. It was our most attended progran yet. Good Job. Thanks for everything.

The blanket project is up and running. It was announced at the Northern Wasatch Rotary meeting last night to donate adult blankets and can personalize them with a note to the Soldier (attached). The blankets can be gently used. If any youth council member is interested please bring them to our next meeting or city hall. We will have some fleece to tie at our next meeting. As a council we plan to write notes to soldiers as well.

We plan to place flags on graves Friday after school at the cemetary from approximately 2:30-3:30. The Standard Examiner will probably be there to take pictures and place a story in the newspaper.

Youth Council's project of uniform recycling that we started ion the summer had a successful and happy ending. We just donated 63 shirts, 38 soccer shorts, and soccer socks to Bruce Powell who will take them to Mexico! All the other donations of cleats, and gear will be donated to the Ogden Rec. Center. This is a continueing project, and Bruce plans to take another trip in Febuary to Mexico.

So excited for a new year with all of you!

Swearing in ceremony was awesome! Good Job on the meeting after conducted and taught by the youth volunteers! The week was a busy one with our meeting the next day, Retirement Home visit following. Then Friday our Halloween Carnival for the city. Saturday ended the week with the Retreat. Oh, so awesome to hear from Katja Neil from West Germany and her experiences with growing up by East Germany, communism, watching the Berlin wall come down, loving America for "keeping them alive," and joining the US Army! Then Games, and unity experiences! After, we got to hear from Claire Peterson a refugee volunteer who informed us of their need, and some interesting stories! We planned to set up a soccer game with the refugees in the spring! So fun!

Our meeting November 2nd went well! We are loving our new council. You guys are dedicated with a big group supporting our meeting, and activities. We planned the Veteran Program for Saturday. Be at the cemetary at 9:00 to do flags, then 10:00 for the program! Boys if you want to be in the flag ceremony wear your Boy Scout Shirts! Also, thanks to Chenille and Alli for the city council report Tuesday! Way to go!

Don't forget to friend Westpointyouthcouncil on FB!

WELCOME WELCOME!!!

We are thrilled to have our new council sworn in Tuesday, October 18th. Everyone that applied for Youth Council will be accepted! Woohoo, a council of about 40 kids! We're going to have a blast!

I hope everyone understands that we understand if you can't make it to everything! That's the beauty of this organization. Come when you can... we aren't going to ever change our meeting times. They are always the 1st and 3rd Wednesdays of the month. After the 3rd Wednesday's meeting we always walk over to the Retirement Home and visit! The officers are required to find someone to fill in for them at meetings or other events when they have responsibilities so things run smoothly. If they do a "no show" then it counts for an unexcused absence... get three and the office is given to the next in line. If this happens, we still need you as a part of the council- so please still come when you can! Our council is run by the youth, and we depend on you, as does our city for events to run smoothly!

Meeting Wednesday @ 5:30
Halloween Carnival @ 7:00 (come at 3:00 if you want to decorate the Haunted House)

Please plan on coming to the Retreat on Saturday! This is the time of planning the year, and uniting the council, not to mention having a blast and learning great leadership skills!
It's a busy week so do what you can! See ya there!

What a wonderful tour to Energy Solutions Facility to find out what happens to all the radioactive waste and how it's disposed of. A big thanks to the folks there who provided a Le Bus and awesome lunches for us all. We'll for sure do that again next year. If anyone is interested in majoring in Chemical Engineering they have a great scholorship opportunity!

Our next volunteer opportunity is the black tie Senior Dinner on Aug. 12th. Hope you can all make it.

We donated a big ol' box of produce from the community garden to the Family Connection Center and a box of hygeine needs to the Phillipines this same week. Ahhh, it's good to help where we can! Great job Youth Council!!!

Way to go Michael - Mayor for June!

The 5-K was a great success with about 135 applicants! We appreciate all your support!

Wow! Great job youth at the summer games. West Haven too the Golden Buffalo home with a win and a successful turn-out with over 40 kids attending!

4th of JULY Celebrations!

Hey everyone, You can volunteer on Monday from 10:30-3:00 and from 6:00-8:00 at the Loy Blake Park. Just call me and I'll let you know details. We need all the help we can get so don't hesitate! Also, join us for the parade. Come to the Brown church(2300W. 550N.) for line-up at 7:45am Monday morning and throw some candy with us!!!

5-K/ Summer Games Information

Hey guys... I've recieved good response on this. Alpine, Clinton, and South Weber are planning on joining us at this point. If anyone has the following items, we will need them at the race.

orange vests or flags

5gallon water container

We have all other needed items.

I wanted to appreciate all those who helped with the garden after our first meeting this month. Also, the assembly was a great success. The kids LOVED it and I'm sure the Teachers felt very happy too with their big Fan Club! And last but not least, the painting was a blast. Thanks a million for all who helped. We have the best kids ever!

Great job Bryce...now it's Katelynn Davidson- Mayor for May!

Thanks for an awesome Egg Hunt YC Kids. You guys are so great! Everyone volunteered in such a respectful way! WooHoo! Love you guys-

Kids we've got some fun events up ahead...

Teacher Appreciation Assembly on Thursday May 5th at 1:00-2:00 at Lakeside Elementary. This is a blast as the YC puts on the Academy Awards for the teachers. Red carpet, escorts, camera men, and gold handed out! Please come if you can. Have your parent check you out.

YC Garden is on the corner of 3000W and 550N. We will tend this garden after our 1st meeting of each month until September or harvest time. We will have a pumpkin growing contest. All food will be donated to those in need in our community.

Pride in West Point Day is Saturday. They have us painting the sheds at the cemetary and water tower on Bluff Trail. Wear old clothes... it may turn into a paint fight!

Last of all, We are preparing for our 5-K June 11th. We will hand out fliers at our meeting Wed. with further information.

oh I guess that's not all... LAGOON! That's right. It's going to be a blast. Pay $10.00 to the City Office and you're good to go. We are planning on going July 20th. CPR training in the morning first then off to Lagoon.

May is almost here!

All YC kids... Yipee! We get to go to Lagoon for our next Retreat which happens to be July 20th. Meet at City Hall at 8:30 as we will be instructed and certified in CPR! Each recipient will recieve their certification card! So Woo Hoo - you can go save someone's life.. if they're choking! SO EVERYONE THAT PLANS ON GOING TO LAGOON GO PAY $10.00 TO CITY HALL. MAKE CHECKS OUT TO WEST POINT CITY! This will be a blast. Also, remember our Summer Games 5-K on June 11th! Come to our meetings and help plan and organize. Don't miss out on the fun!

Meeting News

OK kids... we just had our meeting tonight. We decided our Lagoon Day will be Wednesday, July 20th. We'll meet here at City Hall at 8:00 A.M. to learn CPR and then off to Lagoon for an all day Retreat. Yipee! Also, we need kids to volunteer to represent the Youth Council at a Rotary Meeting on April 12th. If anyone is interested in volunteering and getting a candy bar, and feeling like a useful engine please call me...soon!:) I'll give you all the details. FUN FUN Thanks again everyone. You're awesome!

April's Mayor is Bryce Allen! Good job Drake Thompson!

Egg filling with all the youth council, and support from residents in our City! A Big Thank You!

USU Leadership Conference in Logan. 2nd place winner Award of Excellence- Large Council

Division of 20 or more Youth Council Members!

April is here and Spring has Sprung! Woo Hoo

It was such an exciting night at our last meeting that truly has jumped us ahead in our responsibilities with the Easter Egg Hunt. The EGGS are done! Yipee. So now for April we can focus on the actual day of the hunt which is 23rd at 9:00. We need everyone to be there at 8:00 to spread and distribute the eggs. Someone needs to be Peter Cottontail, and two people are needed to take pictures. This will all be discussed at our meeting on the 6th. We'll go over other business as well like... Pride in West Point Day, Project Ryan, Web page, Lagoon Retreat, Rotary Club, and our Summer 5-K! So much to plan, and so much to be a part of! Way to go all Youth Council Kids! You're the best. You're dedicated, and passionate about bettering the world around you... starting right here in your community!