Another project that I was asked to help with is the Positive Messaging Campaign. The Whitewater Optimist Club and Whitewater High School teamed up together to create and paint positive messages in the school’s bathrooms. Many students have been bullied, or don’t have a good self-image. Depression and anxiety rates are raising very rapidly in our society. By having these positive messages in the high school, we’re hoping to shed a little light and positivity to the students and remind them that being themselves is all they need to be. The campaign isn’t quite finished yet. We will finish painting on May 3, 2019, and celebrate the grand revealing of…

Every February the Whitewater Optimist Club hosts an annual Trivia Night. Trivia Night serves as a major fund raiser for the Optimist Club, and as with any major event, there is a lot of planning to go into it. My boss, Kim Adams, at the University Center is a member of the Optimist Club and is the lead coordinator for Trivia Night. This year, she asked me to be her “right-hand woman” to help her plan Trivia Night. I assisted with gathering donations, planning the trivia questions and the power point, coordinating the silent auction and the bucket raffle, and serving as a room host during the event. Trivia Night…