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Project Prevent 10/18/08

Tuesday, October 21st, 2008

Project Prevent Health Fair is a fair designed to help Baltimore residents become more concious of their health. I was put in charge of sign-in, so I sat at the front door handing out tickets to people and explaining the process. Each person would take a ticket, and visit five health-awareness stations. What these stations [...]

Johns Hopkins Children’s House 10/12/08

Tuesday, October 14th, 2008

We went to the Johns Hopkins Children’s House, a place built for families of children being treated at the Johns Hopkins Hospital, this past Sunday. There, we held an arts and crafts session for the children staying there.
From 3:30pm-4:30pm, only one child came to do arts and crafts. Last year, there were frequently more, but [...]

Baltimore Book Festival 9/28/08

Friday, October 10th, 2008

Circle K had the wonderful opportunity of volunteering at the Baltimore Book Festival, an annual event that promotes literature and the arts. Our group was in charge of the children’s crafts “corridor”– an army of tents filled with fun stalls for decorating pumpkins, creating books, designing bookmarks, and making paper masks. There was also a [...]

Fort McHenry Field Day 09/27/08

Wednesday, October 8th, 2008

We helped the National Aquarium clean up the Fort McHenry marsh south of the inner harbor.
It was a long day that started off with catching the MTA at 8:30 in the morning. Following our stop at the inner harbor, I had underestimated the distance we were to walk to get to Fort McHenry. It was [...]

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