Key Club Blood Drive

Doing the Most Good

By: Alyssa Caruthers

Key Club is a service organization where students donate their time in helping others.  One opportunity for them to donate their time is in one of the three blood drives held every year.  Three opportunities for students that meet the requirements, to help out thousands of people throughout the year.  
        On Wednesday April 12th, Madison Key Club will be hosting their third blood drive of the year.  The drive will go from 8:30 in the morning to 1:45 in the afternoon.  Mrs. Meshginpoosh, the adviser of key club, says that the blood drive is ran by the students for the majority, with some help from her when needed.  
At the blood drive students jobs may vary.  The jobs students have at the blood drive include; checking in the donor's, passing out snacks, running passes to the students, and supporting the students as they are donating.  Key club does these blood drives for a number of reasons.  The most important is that every pint of blood donated helps save three lives!  Another reason is the American Red Cross  donates a scholarship in $250 increments to Key Club! 
Not only does Key Club do the blood drive, but there are also so many other events in the community Key Club participates in.  One of the big events was the Fall Rake & Run, in which students from the middle school student council also helped out.  Students went around the community and helped rake up leaves and put them in brown bags that were donated by the community.  Another one of the biggest events was the Madison High School's Tree of Giving.  Students brought in gifts to help those in need during the holidays.  The families were extremely grateful for all the support.   
Key club holds meeting once a month in the lecture hall before school.  To get involved with Key Club you just have to show up to a meeting to sign up for the events you would like to participate in.  To keep updated with upcoming events and meetings you can listen for announcements and follow Mrs. Mesh on twitter.  Key Club is a great organization that gives you a great chance to give back to our school and the community!