Submitted by Mindy Lyle
Acorn FCCLA hosted five area schools on Nov. 8 for their FCCLA Leadership Blast Off! One hundred fifty FCCLA members and their advisers from Acorn, Caddo Hills, Cossatot River, Mena Middle, Mena High, and Waldron came together to work on the Cakes for CASA community service project.
State FCCLA First Vice President Colten Quebedeaux from Lake Hamilton High School spoke on being a student leader, improving your public speaking skills, and teamwork.
Chapters were challenged to bring items for the community service project, Cakes for CASA. The project was developed by Acorn FCCLA to provide birthday cake kits for children in the local foster care system. Our local CASA (Court Appointed Special Advocates) serves Polk, Sevier, and Montgomery counties. The school that brought the most items for the project was Mena FCCLA. They were awarded the Acorn FCCLA Community Service award. In total, all chapters brought 1,390 items. The chapters worked together to assemble 175 birthday cake kits.
Mena Mayor Seth Smith and CASA representative Amanda Baker were in attendance. Baker spoke to the members about what CASA does for our local children and how these kits will have an impact.
Union Bank of Mena provided a hot dog lunch for all those in attendance.
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