My Project

            For my community service I worked with the Politico’s club helping them in a few different ways. Firstly, I aided them in registering voters for the November 2010 elections. We did this during football games, during lunch at school, and at back to school night. Sometimes we had computers for the people to register online and other times we just had the paper forms, both methods were simple and we stated that when trying to get parents and students to register. Secondly, we informed individuals about the DVDUSD district override. We let them know that passing the override would not result in a tax raise, but that it would keep the funds for the schools that we currently had. It was quite surprising to see how many voters didn’t know about the override at all. Lastly, I helped organize, advertise, and put into action a political panel at Boulder Creek High School. The hardest part was getting the politicians to commit to a date for the panel. In the end we had two actually come and stay for the actual panel. Pat Flickner and Teri Conrad two Democratic choices for State Senate and the State House of Representatives were the two to stay. We also had Lori Klein, the Republican choice for State Senator, come in and leave shortly after, stating that there was a Republican committee meeting that she and the other Republican political party members had to attend. We also created fliers that we passed out during football games, and put on cars in the parking lot to advertise our panel.

            Along with helping the political club at school with the elections, I also went to a homeowners meeting for the people of Anthem. At the meeting they discussed a new project that they wanted to begin. They want to create a main street in Anthem where residents can go to shop and walk all around the old-time feeling area. This would be approximately a quarter mile long and it would be very cozy. It was also very interesting to discover how excited they seemed to have teens at their meeting. One of the leaders was ecstatic to get a younger point of view on the matters. I really liked the ideas but I understand the criticisms that it will cost quite a bit and it will take a very long time before these renovations can occur. I feel I was really able to understand the political community more so after this project.