The Warriors Ignite
members at both Van Buren Middle School and High School have been very busy
this spring. The middle school students
started off by having a “Backpack Awareness Week”. During the week members hung posters about
the dangers of backpacks being too heavy and held a backpack weigh-in where
students put their backpacks on the scale to see if they were in the too heavy or
just right range. More than 95% of the
backpacks were in the too heavy range! The
youth plan to continue to help their peers understand the importance of
carrying backpacks that are not too heavy.
March 15th
was National Kick Butts Day! This is a
day to empower student advocates to lead the efforts to stop youth tobacco
use. The Warrior Ignite members planned
several activities around Kick Butts Day throughout the month of March. The high school members created a “Crime
Scene” outside of the high school/middle
school building. The crime scene had body outlines and tobacco facts. One high school group presented tobacco facts
and activities to the Harmony 6th grade class. Two of the middle school groups presented tobacco
facts and activities to the Van Buren 5th & 6th grade
classes.
Still to come this
spring members are planning a cigarette butt clean up on main street in Keosauqua, a 5k Color Run/Walk with a Health Fair on May 31st at the
Roberts Memorial Center and Fairgrounds, Cups in the fence at a track meet and
a few other activities. Please keep an
eye open for the work our youth are doing to make Van Buren County a great
place to live.
For more information on
the Van Buren County Warriors Ignite youth coalition please contact Melissa
Daugherty at 319-293-8727 or melissa.daugherty@vbch.org.
You can also learn more by going onto the SAFE Coalition's website www.vbsafecaolition.com
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| Crime Scene: Rose Rankin and Sydney Goemaat |
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| Peer Teaching at Van Buren Community Elementary School 5th Grade Classes: Hailey Brown, Christina Leppert and Kylie Peck |
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