tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17127336128394128772012-03-09T10:02:57.971-08:00BGCChicopee Torch ClubBGCChicopee Torch Clubhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07102577120251805239noreply@blogger.comBlogger21100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1712733612839412877.post-10273544339867293652012-02-15T14:07:00.000-08:002012-02-16T08:54:39.016-08:00A poem written by one of our talented teens:<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;"><u><span style="font-size: 16pt;">She Never Knew</span></u><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;"></span></u></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">She sits there pondering about life</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">She’s so quiet and stiff like a statue</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">Thinking about all the hardships</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">She wants to know if anything will change</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">Life hasn’t been easy, but she has survived</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">She sits in the dark, quiet, and gloomy room</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">She has never had friends, but likes to be different<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">Blue tears run down her cheeks, she thinks it will never change</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">Always independent and now she wants to be something</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">She now figures life will change to be something</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">Still thinking, finally notices everything will change</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">Now she is smiling and the room has lighten with happiness</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br /></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 14;"> </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 15;"> </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>By: Brooklyn Lanzara</span></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1712733612839412877-1027354433986729365?l=bgcchicopeetorchclub.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>BGCChicopee Torch Clubhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07102577120251805239noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1712733612839412877.post-36447141919755884602012-01-06T13:22:00.000-08:002012-01-06T13:22:25.067-08:00TORCH CLUB HAPPENINGS<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Listen up everyone!!!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Boys & Girls Club of Chicopee has started a Torch Club!!!!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>To participate members need to be turning 11 this year and cannot be older than 13.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We hope to help our Club and community be a better place. To date members have suggested we run a can drive, volunteer at soup kitchens, visit nursing homes, raise money for “wigs for kids” and other fundraisers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Our focus this year will be mostly kids helping kids.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is in-line with the 2011-2012 National Torch Club project called Linking Hearts & Hands which centers on ways for members to help other children.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Our members have been assisting the younger kids at the Club with their homework and other special activities.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Torch Club members will be meeting with all the kids in the after school program to discuss voting for a staff of the month.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The members will also be discussing Torch Club officer’s election.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We will be voting for president, vice president, secretary and treasurer of Torch Club.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The nominees will be giving speeches, making posters, debating etc.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The remainder of the members will be campaigning for whom they would like to see elected and will be making voting booths for Election Day.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Our goal is to make our community and our club an even more positive place for kids.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We are excited about all the beneficial things that we are going to do.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Written by Kiara Gonzalez</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-KwVpbqS7e-E/Twdd8r9GYsI/AAAAAAAAAA8/AwThehkMo7k/s1600/Kiara.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" rea="true" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-KwVpbqS7e-E/Twdd8r9GYsI/AAAAAAAAAA8/AwThehkMo7k/s1600/Kiara.jpg" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="mso-no-proof: yes;"><shapetype coordsize="21600,21600" filled="f" id="_x0000_t75" o:preferrelative="t" o:spt="75" path="m@4@5l@4@11@9@11@9@5xe" stroked="f"><stroke joinstyle="miter"></stroke><formulas><f eqn="if lineDrawn pixelLineWidth 0"></f><f eqn="sum @0 1 0"></f><f eqn="sum 0 0 @1"></f><f eqn="prod @2 1 2"></f><f eqn="prod @3 21600 pixelWidth"></f><f eqn="prod @3 21600 pixelHeight"></f><f eqn="sum @0 0 1"></f><f eqn="prod @6 1 2"></f><f eqn="prod @7 21600 pixelWidth"></f><f eqn="sum @8 21600 0"></f><f eqn="prod @7 21600 pixelHeight"></f><f eqn="sum @10 21600 0"></f></formulas><path gradientshapeok="t" o:connecttype="rect" o:extrusionok="f"></path><lock aspectratio="t" v:ext="edit"></lock></shapetype><shape alt="Description: C:\Users\Cecile\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\Temporary Internet Files\Content.Word\001.jpg" id="Picture_x0020_1" o:spid="_x0000_i1025" style="height: 84pt; mso-wrap-style: square; visibility: visible; width: 63pt;" type="#_x0000_t75"><imagedata o:title="001" src="file:///C:\DOCUME~1\EEC\LOCALS~1\Temp\msohtmlclip1\01\clip_image001.jpg"></imagedata></shape></span><span style="font-size: 20pt;"></span></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1712733612839412877-3644714191975588460?l=bgcchicopeetorchclub.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>BGCChicopee Torch Clubhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07102577120251805239noreply@blogger.com1