Mentoring at Panera

Mentors from LLU's School of Allied Health Physician's Assistant program tutor neighborhood children and youth at Panera Bread on Hospitality Lane across from Costco every Sunday morning at 9:30 am.

Campfire Breakfast, Sat at 8:30

On Saturday mornings at 8:30 am we have Campfire Breakfast--enjoy bagels from Panera, orange juice, and hot chocolate--and increase our Biblical literacy

Crosswalk Church provided the gifts for nearly 80 children from the "Valley View" neighborhood around the Norton Gardens after-school site. Special thanks to Cheryl and Bill Lake for coordinating the member's purchase of the gifts and helping out at the party!

Starbucks Christmas Party

Children from Norton Gardens enjoyed hot chocolate and a visit from Santa courtesy of Starbucks on Tippecanoe and their generous manager, Amanda Antonacci! They even received $10 gift cards to Target. Thanks again, Amanda and the whole Starbucks team. We're joining Starbuck's "Make Your Mark" program to support our tutoring and mentoring of these children. We'll rename our mentoring program "Star Kids Mentoring" early next year. Now we just need more mentors! Sign up online at www.healthycities.com

Fire Safety Day

Pediatric Resident Dr. Krisha Torgerson taught the children fire safety at the regular Wednesday afternoon Children's Learning Gardens program. Dr. Torgerson's participation is part of her involvement in the LLU School of Medicine's Pediatric Department's "OK Kids" program. The children are students at Cypress Elementary School--the school to which they are bussed from the neighborhood around Norton Gardens. We need volunteers on Wednesdays who can also teach the children gardening.

More mentors needed!

We have mentors for three of these neighborhood youth, but need mentors for three others. You can mentor on Tuesday afternoons at 4:30-6 or 6-7:30, or on Sunday mornings, any 90 minutes between 8:30 and noon.

Jump Rope Mentoring

After studying with their mentors for an hour, middle school students in the Norton Neighborhoods mentoring program jump rope and play basketball outside the classroom at the warehouse.

Kids who came to tutoring get to visit Dr. Ron's pool

Neighborhood kids who attend the weekly mentoring were rewarded with a visit to Dr. Graybill's swimming pool on Sunday.

Peds Residents from OK Kids teach about grapes

Pediatric Residents from OK Kids (their community pediatrics rotation) teach children at Norton Gardens about why grapes are good to eat. Our own grapes were sweet and ripe just in time for the lesson.