One of Stockton University’s clubs, Circle K, held their first meeting on Wednesday, September 16th in room F111 of Stockton’s academic wing. The meeting began with the introduction of the officers and a description of the club. They said that Circle K is a worldwide club for college aged students who are passionate about community service and leadership. Then they welcomed all new members and got into the heart of the meeting, which was talking about the service opportunities for this semester.

They explained that Project Linus is an opportunity for students to make teddy bears and pillowcases for sick children in local hospitals. Next, they talked about Atlantic City Rescue Mission. This service project allows students the ability to help prepare and serve dinner to the homeless people of Atlantic City. A third service project that was mentioned is serving with the Salvation Army. This entails helping younger kids with their homework and playing games with them at an after school program. Another project for this semester is the opportunity to travel to Spring Village, a retirement home, and play Blackjack with the elderly residence. This is a way to give older members of our community some fun and allows the students to interact with the residents as well. Another service project that was mentioned is with Campus Kitchen. During this project, Stockton students partner with students from Atlantic City High School to make meals for the homeless. The last off-campus service project that was talked about during this meeting was horse rescue. This allows students to be able to assist in the feeding and grooming of rescued horses.

The final service project, which takes place on campus, gives students who do not have time to leave campus an opportunity to help the community with different service projects each week. For convenience, this project takes place right before the Circle K meetings every Wednesday night. Overall this meeting was very informative and gave a lot of good information about service opportunities around the area. Circle K seems like a great club to have on campus because they are so focused on helping others.