PICAYUNE —
Pearl River County high school and junior high young women have much to offer their community with abilities, service and enthusiasm. A group of them have decided to use these assets and reinitiate the Picayune Service Club, the junior club of the Civic Woman’s Club of Picayune.
The group is based on the same core concepts as the CWC and has the same committee structure with the major differences being the membership age and focus of initiatives.
The group’s first project was to write and perform a drug prevention skit for the Picayune Police Summer Camp on last Friday. The skit demonstrated one scenario ending two different ways after a “yes” answer to try the drugs and a “no” answer, The group worked closely with their advisor and also collaborated with the former director of the YMCA, Dawn Bechtel.
Not all members of the Picayune Service League were able to work on this project but the ones who did gave up end of school parties and other functions to be part of the effort.
Skit writers were: Summer King, Malarie Torres, Gerline and Gelsey Guerra, Taletha Odom, Taylor Stuart, Kimi Herring, Jordan Thomas, Alexis Hawkins and Alyssa Hill. Member Paige Jackson was unable to attend the writing sessions but was there in spirit. Performers were Kimi Herring, Taletha Odom, Alexis Hawkins, Malarie Torres and Taylor Stuart.
The group felt strongly about presenting the message of making good choices and immediately following their performance, they had a camper volunteer be the center of a web (of black yarn) which was woven by making one bad choice at a time. With each uninformed decision and bad choice, the group showed how the camper became entangled and soon felt the weight of the yarn he was entwined in.
At the end of the demonstration, the group spoke about peer pressure and the perception of being cool. They encouraged the campers to shine through their abilities and to define their own version of cool, instead of letting others dictate to them how they should be.
At the end of the presentation, 60 campers pledged to stay away from drugs, consider where their choices could lead and to be their own kind of cool, instead of someone else’s version.
Future projects the group will be addressing are: Bullying, domestic violence, child safety, immunizations, Veteran care programs and others.
CWC Past State President Carolyn Huey, said of the group, “I am thrilled that our junior service club has started back up again, because I am very aware that they are the future of not only our club, but our nation. Community activism and leadership is to be commended and to grasp it at such a young age is of great importance.”
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Above: Police Summer Campers pledged to be cool through their own abilities rather than conforming to actions dictated by others. They also pledged not to take drugs. Right: Picayune Service Club members use black yarn to demonstrate the web that can engulf individuals through a series of uninformed and bad choices with the help of a camper. photos submitted
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