Heather King inspires and leads: Day 43: Leaders Inspire and lead by example

My daughter and 39 other youth from all around BC attended a Get Outside BC Youth Leadership Program in July. The kids all left the program with a task: create a community event that will inspire others to "get outside".
 http://www.delta-optimist.com/Local+teen+organizes+Boundary+beach+clean+Friday/5235750/story.html
Get Outside BC also provided a financial donation to help them with their events.

My daughter's event was going to be pretty low key - just a handful of kids pitching-in to clean-up the beach. Low key, until she talked to Heather, that is!

The two of them are very similar: they both love art, nature, sports, and volunteering - actually both of them are "compulsive volunteers", in a good way, of course. So my daughter asked Heather, if she would like to attend.

Heather's enthusiastic reply, "Great idea! I would love too help! What can I do?", fueled my daughter's imagination and ambition!

Truly, I shouldn't be surprised, that's what leaders do: leaders inspire and lead by example!

The gals showing their pre-beach clean-up haul!

Looks like the gals got the memo: wear shorts and pinky-coloured hoodie

Partaaay and get community hours for graduation, food and prizes!

A few weeks later and lots of planning, The International Youth Day Boundary Bay Beach Clean-up Partaaay, has been officially launched on Facebook, Twitter, South Delta Leader and in the Delta Optimist.
http://www.bclocalnews.com/richmond_southdelta/southdeltaleader/community/127316923.html


Wow, it went from a low key event to a full fledged partaaay -- but of course, it's International Youth Day, we should be celebrating, after all, we were all young once! (I overheard on of the sign makers say, "Partaaay has to have at least three "a"s in it to be "sic'", oh, I am soooo old!)

Here is the partaaay break-down:

• Over 100 participants are expected,
• Face Painting by Heather and two other volunteers,
• every participant will receive a certificate documenting their community hours (important because 30 hours of volunteer hours are needed to graduate) 
• PRIZES
• The first 100 people will receive a gift bag with a chocolate bar, pen and coupons for pizza, a cone, and a Delta Recreation pass. (Curtsey of: Shoppers, Rona, Freshslice, McDonalds, and Delta Parks & Rec.)
• Major prizes curtsey of : Albany Books, Centre Stage, Lucky Surf & Skate Company and Rogers Video
• FOOD
• Tsawwassen Boundary Bay Lions Club will be flipping the burgers and hotdogs
• Safeway will supply a big cake.
• Save-on Foods will supply  fruit platters,
• Thrifty Foods will supply the veggie trays

Friday, August 12 noon - 2 PM

Pacific Advertising will print the community volunteer certificates for the students who participate in the clean-up and Home Hardware Building Centre will supply the garbage bags for the clean-up.

 Boundary Bay -- look for the blue tent in front of the pond

So come, bring your family, and celebrate International Youth Day at Boundary Bay from noon - 2 on Friday.

 To find Heather, look for the blue tent in front of the pond and the Tsawwassen Boundary Bay Lions Club cooking hotdogs.

It might not be the best time to tell her your concerns, but you can always contact her before or after her face painting gig -- Her  information is at the top of the page.

                                                                                                                

Tell the KING!