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!