1. By Kevin O’Brien

2. What is Community Service? A service performed to benefit the public. I really enjoyed community service because it made me feel like I was benefiting a lot of people. I did eighteen hours of community service this semester I did a total of seven services for the community just this semester

3. Easter Egg Hunt My fraternity, Sigma Alpha Epsilon, and a local sorority, Chi Omega decided that we would put on an Easter Egg hunt for little kids around the Valdosta area. We bought over four- hundred plastic Easter eggs and five pounds of candy to fill the Easter Eggs with We hid all four hundred eggs and then let the kids go and find all of them!

4. Relay for life Relay for life was a great experience It was the third time I have participated in it and it is great to see everyone out there supporting the cause against cancer Two of my brother’s have beaten cancer. It was great to walk with them for the cause that they overcame!

5. Luminaries Everyone could by luminaries and dedicate them I bought a luminary for my best friend’s mom who had breast cancer It was great to see how the walkway was lined with so many luminaries

6. Camping for Cancer Every year my fraternity does an event called camping for cancer. We have to active brother’s who both had cancer so it is a very meaningful event we do. We all camp out in our front yard with our tents and sit around a fire and collect empty cans to donate

7. Valdosta Water Plant Valdosta got an incredible amount of rain early in April My fraternity was just hanging out when we got a phone call saying that the power plant needed volunteers to build a dam to protect the plant My entire fraternity went out there and built the dam to prevent the plant from damage We used large amounts of dirt to create the dam and sand bags!

8. Blood Drive I had never donated blood before and my fraternity brother, Lawrence Claggett, told me I should go and donate blood with him I went and donated one pint of blood, it was a very weird feeling I got my blood donors card in the mail and I was an A positive I was told my blood saved three lives!

9. Donated Clothes Normally every winter my family and I gather clothes and donate them directly to the homeless in downtown Atlanta, this winter I was not able to do so I went through my closet at school and pulled out clothes that I had that I very wear such as Lacoste shirts and shorts and Polo shirts I donated them to the Good Will bin over near Hollywood Videos.

10. Paul Burnette Scholarship A brother of the Georgia Sigma chapter of Sigma Alpha Epsilon died in a car accident in 1990. In his memory a scholarship soccer tournament was started. I donated $50 dollars to this scholarship The soccer tournament will be held May 2 nd, 2009.

11. Conclusion In conclusion I took part in a lot of community service activities. I felt very good knowing I was benifiting the community by giving back. It got stressful balancing all of my schoolwork and extra curricular activities with my community service I learned that I want to continue giving back further on after this class.