November Kindness Day
TOMORROW – Thursday, November 17th, 2016
Theme: “Give those special people in your life a PAT ON THE BACK”.
Let those special people know how THANKFUL you are to have them in your life.
Photo of Washington Elementary in Pocatello Idaho.
I apologize for the November Kindness Newsletter delay. My family and I have been busy relocating to Boise this last month. We arrived last weekend and are finally getting settled in. I want to personally thank everyone in our Pocatello/Chubbuck Community that helped the CKM make all this possible for so many schools and students. I will forever be grateful for your kindness. My hope is that each school that was funded Kindness T-shirts and given our Kindness Begins with Me Program, will continue to join us and make it their own.
The CKM desires to continue to help implement our program in more schools throughout the State of Idaho.
We have a WONDERFUL ANNOUNCEMENT coming very soon!
I am thankful for so many wonderful individuals who influence and teach our children every day. Your KINDNESS and POSITIVE EXAMPLE makes a huge difference in the lives of each one of our kids. Please encourage all your students to wear their Kindness T-Shirts tomorrow and to encourage them to reach out to those special people in their life and tell them why they are THANKFUL for them. Enjoy another wonderful day in spreading KINDNESS!
NOVEMBER KINDNESS DAY ACTIVITY
THANK YOU 2016-2017 SPONSORS!
Your kindness will come around full circle this year with providing 3000+ students with Kindness T-Shirts to go along with our
“Kindness Begins With Me!” Bullying Prevention Program.
2016 Kindness T-Shirt Printing
Thank you to New Day Products for adding extra shifts to print all of our Kindness T-Shirts for Kindness Week. The schools should be receiving their Kindness T-Shirts by the end of the week for distribution on Monday, the FIRST DAY OF KINDNESS WEEK!
Join us this Saturday, July 30th, for a KINDNESS NIGHT with our winning Gate City Gray’s Baseball Team!
Games start at 5:30pm and 7:30pm
Admission is $5 per Adult. Kids under 8 are free with a parent.
Wear your Kindness T-Shirts and come out and enjoy a fundraising night to help fund Kindness T-Shirts for our local students!
NEW 2016-17 KINDNESS T-SHIRTS and HATS will be available to order, a drawing for PRIZES, and MORE!
Bring your family and friends and enjoy a fun night in spreading KINDNESS at the ballpark!
The COMMUNITY KINDNESS MOVEMENT has something BIG to SMILE about!
Just as children must be taught to read and write, solve math problems, and understand science concepts and events in history, so must they be guided in developing the qualities of character that are valued by their families and by the communities in which they live.
POCATELLO/CHUBBUCK SCHOOL DISTRICT #25 2015-2016 REPORT
The CKM Committee recently met with Lori Craney of the Pocatello/Chubbuck School District #25, on April 5th. During the meeting, Craney reported that the District has had signficatly fewer incidents of misbehavior reported throughout their Elementary Schools for 2015-2016 school year. This is wonderful news and we have many wonderful Adminstrators, Teachers, School Councilors, PTA/PTO Parent Volunteers, and more that we should thank for this.
Every child has the power to succeed in school and in life. It just takes someone who believes in them. Thank you, to each one of you for making the CKM Proposal a reality. The CKM Committee hopes that we have gained your support for this next coming year. Each Kindness T-Shirt gave a child the feeling that someone believed in them. Having the opportunity to experience entire student bodies in Kindness T-Shirts, was a remarkable sight. The most important thing that will be remembered is how it all made us all feel. The students radiate a natural glow in their demeanor each time we visit our local schools for Kindness Day and/or for a Kindness Assembly. They love them! The Kindness T-Shirt gave them something that each of them long for: TO BELONG, TO FEEL INCLUDED, TO FEEL LOVED, and TO KNOW THAT THEY ARE SOMEBODY! With such encouraging results for the first year, we are excited to make our next announcement for the next year.
Drum Roll Please………..
Dave Bagley has a Masters Degree, in tax law from the University of Florida—recognized nationally as one of the top five tax programs in the country—has made numerous presentations related to estate planning and probate issues, and teaches in the Accounting Department at Idaho State University. After hearing about the CKM from a colleague at Racine Olson Law Firm, Dave invited Melissa Nelson to the ISU College of Business Building to present a CKM Presentation to his Accounting students. After the presentation that included the viewing of the locally produced Kindness video, Dave Bagley offered his professional services and to use his student’s classroom learning time as a project in establishing the Community Kindness Movement as their own Non-Profit Corporation status. Melissa is overjoyed by their generosity and excited about the CKM’s future in continuing on.
“It’s been amazing to see all the wonderful “Models of Kindness” this past year! So many have contributed their talents, time, services, and generous donations in supporting the CKM to help our children. Kindness continues to spread. Dave Bagley and the ISU Accounting students are contributing a futuristic path for the CKM to empower our youth and to help in building better and safer communities across our state. – Thank you!”
The CKM Committee
Community Kindness Award for April 2016: Dave Bagley LL.M.
Student Kindness Award for April 2016: Tara Justensen, Morgan Van Levite, Tim Roth, Andrea Lynn, and Riggan Angell.
Mt. Harrison High School Kindness Assembly – April 21st, 2016
Thank you, Angie Wojick for having my family and I visit Mt. Harrison High School to do a Kindness Assembly. We had a great time interacting with the students. Angie mentioned she read my story in the Pocatello Magazine last year and it inspired her to start the CKM in their High School. Angie raised funds from family members to help fund Kindness T-Shirts. She used the to t-shirts to award students for being Kindness Ambassadors in their school. Angie was very deserving of a Kindness Award. We greatly appreciate her efforts in making a difference in the lives of students. Angie also shared with me how she implemented some of the Acts of Kindness themes to certain days of the week, throughout the entire school year. Such a wonderful idea! Keep up the great work Angie!
From her caring efforts, I was happy to award four Student Kindness Awards to very deserving students at Mt. Harrison High School! It wonderful to hear how they are making a difference in their school and community.
APRIL brought many SMILES, MAY we continue to see Kindness spread!
Mt. Harrison High School Celebrating April’s Kindness Day
Melanie Mortensen – Helping Hands Outstanding Individual Volunteer
Congratulations to Senior Licensing Analyst, Melanie Mortensen who has been recognized as the
2015 Northwest Region Helping Hands Outstanding Individual Volunteer.
The Helping Hands Awards program honors employees who serve as the good hands in their communities. The program recognizes volunteers in three categories: outstanding individual volunteer, outstanding skills-based volunteer and outstanding team volunteer. Among a pool of 300-plus nominations, 23 individuals and teams were recognized for the work they do in their communities.
Melanie was among the select 23 that received top honors for their superior service and volunteerism throughout the Allstate enterprise. Additional excitement comes with Melanie’s 2015 recognition, marking the consecutive year a team member from the ID CCC receives this Northwest Region recognition. Last year, it was awarded to Nancy Crawford for her outstanding service.
This year, Melanie and her mighty helping hands gave much vitality and attention to the Community Kindness Movement in Southeastern Idaho. What began by Mrs. Pocatello 2015 after her child was being bullied at school, became a district-sponsored school program designed to stop bullying at local schools. The collaborative efforts and workings of Melanie and other Kindness Committee members incited a local kindness phenomenon felt across the community. Melanie devoted countless hours of service, fundraising, skill with marketing and social media to platform acts of kindness, school assemblies and city-wide events with one goal in mind. To show kids the power of kindness.
Melanie will receive a $1000 grant from Allstate for her commitment to service. She is planning to award that grant to the Community Kindness Movement to further their endeavors. The campaign is showing “kind” signs of expansion in other regions. Melanie will also receive an Allstate Outstanding Individual Volunteer plaque.
Congratulations Melanie on your well-deserved award! The Idaho CCC is thankful, grateful and proud of your contributions! Let’s applaud this Huge Helping Hand Honor by giving a shout out to Melanie!
The Community Kindness Movement funds Pocatello Community Charter School, the 16th Elementary School in our community, with the yellow “Kindness begin with ME!” t-shirts. The PCCS Adminstration and PCCS Parents helped fund 125 t-shirts, while Melissa Nelson, Mrs. Pocatello 2015 and the Community Kindness Movement Committee funded 230 t-shirts for the rest of the school. Thank you, to the community for supporting the “Buy 1, Give 1” fundraising efforts!
SPONSORS:
PCCS Parents/Administration
Community Kindness Movement / Melissa Nelson – Mrs. Pocatello 2015
New Day Products and Resources
Idaho Region 5 PTA
Parents:
I am excited for all your children to ride in the ISU Homecoming Parade. I need to give you all the information that is needed for the BIG DAY coming in just a few days.
ISU Homecoming Parade Information – CLICK ON THIS LINK
When: Saturday, October 17th 2015
Time: Please park and walk your kids into the parade line-up. We won’t know where we will be placed, you will have to find us. The Parade starts at 9:30, please have your child there by no later than 9:00 am if their faces are already painted with a Bengal face. If your child needs their face painted, please bring them between 8:30-9:00 am.
Uniform: Kindness T-shirt – if it’s cold that morning, have them where a black or white long sleeve shirt or jacket underneath their Kindness T-shirt. We need the t-shirts on top! If you don’t have white and black or orange, whatever you have will work.
Faces: We are painting Bengal Faces on the kids. If you can paint your own child’s it would help us out, but if you can’t, WE CAN! Bring them no matter what!
Parade Time: 9:30 am
End of the Parade Pickup: Please pick up for kids at Reed’s Gym Parking Lot. We will be there waiting.
Parents are welcome to walk to the parade with us behind the float handing out “Kindness” Buttons. If you need a Kindness T-shirt, they’re available at The Orange and Black Store for $7. You can wear them every Thursday like we all do and especially on every 3rd Thursday for Kindness Day!
Please Contact me if you have ANY Questions!!!
FACE PAINTING IDEAS