Oh no! It’s Salley. I am really stressing about this Earth Day Clean Up I have planned. I don’t think it’s going to be nearly as successful as I thought. I really wanted to ask all the businesses for donations of garbage bags and work gloves, but I barely had time to go around to half the businesses in town! And I wanted to gather up a lot more volunteers, but I ran out of time so I only managed to visit a couple of neighborhoods to ask for help. I am going to have to make do with just a few volunteers. Right about now I kind of wish I could be as carefree as the rest of my friends. Today I seemed to see all of them at one point just hanging out around town. Stoogles and Sparky clearly have plenty of free time because I saw both of them going into the Tournament Arena and then the Arcade right afterward. Must be nice! Cowabelle and Roberta were just chatting with people on the corner. They were showing them some piece of paper or something. Who knows what that’s all about? And then Molly and Polly prance out … Read more →

Oh wow. It’s Roberta. Remember back at Christmas when I decided to make all my presents and it got to be a little overwhelming? Well, I stopped by to see Salley today and boy, did I ever recognize that crazed look in her eye! I know she thinks that because she has been president of school council she can handle all this responsibility, but she has just taken on way too much. She wouldn’t let us help her organize her clean up event and now she has got a million things to do and Earth Day is just around the corner! She has been going around the town telling everyone about the event and taking down names of volunteers, she had to meet with the Earth Day committee to coordinate their events, she wants to give an expensive reward to every single volunteer and she has been trying to hit every business in town to ask for donations. Oh, Salley, Salley, Salley.  I wish she would just realize that getting some of us to take some of the duties off of her shoulders doesn’t make her efforts any less valid. I’d better talk to the rest of the ‘Kinz, don’t … Read more →

Salley again. When I told the ‘Kinz about my Earth Day idea to clean up the town, they were all really sweet and offered to help out with organizing all the volunteers and stuff. The thing is – I really just want this to be MY thing. I just know that I will feel better about it if I know that I do this myself. Then I will really know that I am making a big difference. I know it’s going to be a lot of work, but then I will feel all the better about it. You just wait – Earth Day is going to be awesome. Everyone in Kinzville is going to be thanking me for how great the town looks afterward.      

I think all the Earth Day activities planned around Kinzville are really cool events, but I kind of had my own idea and I thought to myself, this is what the school presidency has been preparing me for. I am going to take on my very own Earth Day project. I know that when my friends and I ride our bikes around Kinzville I get really down whenever I see litter lying around, so I am going to organize volunteers to go around Kinzville and pick up trash. I think that’s something that will have real impact. My mom thinks that I am taking on too much and if I want to organize a town-wide clean up I am going to need help, but I really want to plan this myself. Imagine my feeling of accomplishment when I look around the town and know that I am the one responsible for getting all that trash cleaned up.    

I have been thinking a lot about Earth Day and what I can do. There are so many activities going on that day. I know I want to participate, but I just want to make sure that whatever I do really has an impact, you know? There is a 5 mile walk being organized in the Big City (but that is kind of far from here) as well as tree planting in the Caring Valley. The W Shop and Ms. Birdy’s Adoption Center are teaming up to give out cloth diapers to new parents and there is also going to be a recycling event at Kinzville Park. These are all really cool events that will help raise awareness about taking care of our planet. I’m just not sure exactly how I want to contribute. Whatever I do I want it to be really noticeable and make a real difference to Kinzville.      

                    Hi there. It’s me, Salley. I’ve really liked being school council president this year. Even the stuff with Purr-cilla hasn’t been that bad because it feels really good to accomplish something, and sometimes the harder you have to work to do something, the better it feels when it actually gets done. So in a weird kind of way, Purr-cilla has actually helped me feel better about my job as president. The thing is, even though being president of the school council is awesome, I started thinking – there is so much going on in the world.  I just love being able to help out the way I’ve helped make things happen at the school this year. Maybe I could take some of the energy that I put into being president and apply it to some bigger problems. So this year, I am going to see what I can do to get involved in Earth Day. I think that is a really important event and I would really like to try and make a difference. I feel like – if it feels that good getting things done for the students at … Read more →