Desert Vista’s Key Club is a club that offers opportunities for students to gain service hours. The club meets Wednesday mornings at 7:45 in the auditorium. The Key Club sponsor is John Olson and the president is Kat Niemeyer. They have weekly agenda’s that explain the upcoming projects. The students involved in the club have to have at least fifty service hours signed off by April. The club is coming to a close as the school year ends, but it will start back up in the beginning of next year. Key Club is a student run club; this means that participants can interview for officer positions. The available student positions are president, vice president, secretary, treasurer as well as historian.

Every year Key Club organizes a Club Wide service Project. This year’s project is to tie fleece blankets. Volunteers can bring in unused, cut blankets in order to receive hours as well; they get one hour for every blanket up to five hours. These blankets have to be cut before they are brought in to receive hours for them. In order to help tie the blankets the volunteers must donate at least one pre-cut blanket. The event was originally scheduled for February 25 but has since been postponed until further notice.

The club offers multiple outside service opportunities in addition to the club project. Key Club looks for projects that need volunteers, then they relay that information to the club members through the weekly agenda. The next project coming up is the Lantern Fest which is a carnival type environment with face painting and disney princesses. Held on April 4, the festival is looking for volunteers that are at least 16 years old to help run the festival.

“Helping others makes me feel important and helpful” said freshman Clare Kulaga.