Thanksgiving for the homeless

My article on the El Camino College Circle K club's Thanksgiving service project had me scrambling to get any quotes I could get.

I was pretty nervous, because the club president didn't respond to the e-mails I sent to her. Thankfully, they read the e-mail before I arrived at the club meeting in the music building.

I had to make sure that I interviewed some of the members before they left the club meeting. Somehow, I just knew that many of them would leave as soon as the meeting was over.

The vice president, Daniel Valdivia, said that I should hold off my interviews until after the meeting. I really didn't know whether I'd get in all the quotes I needed for the story. Fortunately, I interviewed him and two other members before they left the room.

Valdivia had quite a lot to say about the upcoming event. He also told me about the weekend service project, where they would be helping at the Hermosa Beach Kiwanis Charity Tree Lot.

According to Valdivia, the members would mostly help move the trees around to sell them to people. Although the club members didn't have as much to say about the tree lot, I thought it was interesting enough to mention in a brief link.

The main conversation, however, was about their service project at the Los Angeles Regional Foodbank. The club members were going to organize canned holiday food into bags. The food bank workers would then distribute the bags to the homeless people.

It's a worthy cause. The only problem is that the food bank ended the registration period early, so not as many Circle K members were able to sign up. I would have liked to find out how many El Camino members were actually going to the food bank.

Anyhow, I pretty much worked with everything that I had.

Click here to see my full article on the Circle K club.