Thank you all, so much. Red Cross Club raised over $1200

Title says it all, we raised over $1200. Good job to the Aragon High School American Red Cross Club and best wishes to the people of Japan.

Some ideas to help out

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Why I Help

Anyone in favor of Making Cards?

Hi All,
Would anyone be in favor of putting out paper and pens to allow people to write cards to the people of Japan?

American Red Cross's New Position

"Since early Friday morning, we have been in close contact with our colleagues in the Pacific region to offer our support and learn more about the humanitarian needs. The Japanese Red Cross has indicated that it would accept financial support from the American Red Cross for its role providing first aid, emotional support and relief items to those displaced.
On Sunday, the American Red Cross will deploy a disaster management expert from its Washington, DC headquarters to Japan for a week-long mission. She will serve on a seven-person, international team focused on providing high-level support and advice to the Japanese Red Cross, which continues to lead the local earthquake and tsunami response.
To date, the Red Cross has not received any requests for blood from the Japanese Red Cross, the Japanese government or the United States State Department."

Japanese Earthquake

Hi All,

As most all of you have already found out, Japan experienced a catastrophic earthquake and tsunami on March 10 Pacific Time or March 11 Japanese time.

As the American Red Cross Club, it is our duty to step up and help out those most in need. Therefore, we will be having a lunchtime donation session on March 14, 15, and 16 (so no meeting), where we will be accepting cash donations on the behalf of the American Red Cross and the people of Japan.

02/07/2011 Wrap-Up

Hello,

Today, we had Ms. Lauren Lombardo, an American Red Cross intern came in and present today. She went over briefly the history of Red Cross, and the many options that we can have. This is a brief summary of such ideas:

1. Help host/assist the blood drive at our school. And to donate blood, if possible.

2. Learn, and be certified to teach CPR.

3. Get different types of awareness with newspapers, flyers, and our school's schoolloop.

4. To partake in Disaster Training courses to know what to do in case of an actual disaster.

5. To assign our school to a shelter site as well as how to use it in emergency.

6. Fundraiser with different events for charity and such. Possible ideas are selling pins for the Measles Initative, or selling the silly bands.

7. Volunteering and various seminars.

Please share out your opinions on which ones you think we should try and do. Also, add to the list if I missed anything.

Z, out.

Club T-shirt

Hey guys, should we have our club T-shirts?

Sorry to bother you again, but time to gear up....

Hey guys and gals,

7.2 earthquake today. Let's do what we do best and start the fundraising to save some lives. Currently, situation looks good, but let's keep our fingers crossed and hope.

Here we go, time for some action.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703954004576090331100675282.html

The Little Things That Matter

You must read it to find out, but this truly is one in a million. Let's hope that all people are this kind.
Not only that, no recognition what so ever.

Remember folks, it's the little things that matter.

http://www.elliott.org/blog/southwest-airlines-pilot-holds-plane-for-murder-victims-family/comment-page-4/#comments

Tuesday Aragon Expo

Hi Everyone,

Just want to let all of you know. Tuesday night, we will be having a booth set up. So, anyone with 8th graders or maybe 7th graders tell them to come by.

On another note, anyone who would like to help out let me know.

The True Spirit of A Nation

Sorry to make this a news website, but this 9 year old girl was able to receive quite a lot of cloud support after someone ridiculed her.

This is the spirit of the American Red Cross, helping out those that may be in need even as little as singing along. The Youtube video is attached. Hopefully, it can be a small inspiration to those who are in the worst of times.

How's Everyone?

Hello and Welcome to the Aragon American Red Cross Club. I'm Brandon and I'm looking forward to some great work from all of you this semester! I am sure that we can make a difference no matter how big or small in the community as humanitarians. Thank you for visiting the blog and please feel free to post... just one note... don't go too off topic (like about pints of blood or something). Let's keep this at least remotely related. Thanks.

Basic Info

So basically, we are from Aragon High School in San Mateo, California, and our club is dedicated towards not only helping the Red Cross, but helping people we know.

We meet once a week at lunch to discuss plans to help people.

If you go to Aragon High School, I encourage you to join our club, the more people we have, the bigger impact we will have.
If you don't go to Aragon, you can help too by doing what you can to help those around you. It can be as simple as opening the door for someone, donating money to local charities; the list is endless.

Thank you for reading and hopefully we can all have a positive impact on our community, Wherever we are!

Testing 1 2 3 Testing

Um, since Comrade Jonathan said I could go wild, I might as well...

Reminder: To the Seniors that may be reading this, there will be a NO ditch day tomorrow, please don't, I want the ditch day to be later, 'kay? Any person that does so must donate 53.625 pints of blood to the Vampire Charity and half their brain to the OLD (Organization of the Living Dead).

Anyways, so with the Elementary school thing, we are going to teach kids (k-2) about safety stuff, right? Do the schools know this, or do we inform them and the teachers later? I have dealt with elementary school kids for awhile, will it be okay, or will it be last year's Johnson's AP English debates all over again?

But I digress from the main topic, which is really this:

Great picture, isn't it?

-Spiral King

Meeting Summary: 1/10/11

Hello,

At today's meeting, we decided the two schools that we would make a presentation at: Baywood and West. The topics we will cover include: Emergency Preparedness, Stop, Drop, and Roll, Evacuation Procedures, First Aid, Earthquake, Fires, and possibly lockdown. If anyone has any additional topics they wish to contribute, please post it as a comment.