{"id":137124,"date":"2024-03-11T23:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-03-12T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/?p=137124"},"modified":"2024-03-12T19:23:47","modified_gmt":"2024-03-12T19:23:47","slug":"panzer-sac-students-send-valentines-love-to-mailroom-staff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/?p=137124","title":{"rendered":"Panzer SAC students send Valentine’s love to mailroom staff"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\n Tammy Clarke, work lead at USAG Stuttgart’s Panzer Kaserne Community Mail Room (CMR), poses with the bulletin board showcasing handmade hearts and supportive messages from the Panzer School Age Center (SAC) Service Learning Club, Feb. 23.
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STUTTGART, Germany — Valentine\u2019s Day is typically a time celebrated with romantic love, but the kids of the School Aged Center (SAC) on Panzer Kaserne chose to use the holiday as an opportunity to send love to the community. Presented with cookies and heart-shaped crafts from the students \u2013 along with a note reading, \u201cRoses are red, violets are blue, we want you to know how much we appreciate you!\u201d \u2013 the staff of the Panzer Community Mail Room (CMR) were brought to tears by their act of kindness.<\/p>\n

The SAC\u2019s Service Learning Club, led by Child & Youth Program Assistant (CYPA) Shanna Grant-Olshausen, has previously assembled Halloween candy bags for the gate guards and firefighters to celebrate their service. This time, they chose to show appreciation to members of the postal team.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs CYPAs, we work with the kids, come up with different clubs, talk with them and ask them what they\u2019re interested in and what they\u2019re passionate about,\u201d Grant-Olshausen said. \u201cOne of those things is helping the community.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Grant-Olshausen has been working at the SAC for just eight months but has already been able to orchestrate multiple volunteer projects with the children of the center.<\/p>\n

As the Service Learning Club’s facilitator, she sees her role as helping to put her students\u2019 ideas into action. She teaches them how to properly execute their projects in terms of time management and lends a hand in designing and assembling the gifts, with the goal of showing students the positive effects they can have through their work.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think it\u2019s so important that the kids understand that just by doing little things like this, they can make a difference,\u201d she said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Shortly before Valentine\u2019s Day, Grant-Olshausen came into the CMR office and met work lead Tammy Clarke to hand over the bag of handmade hearts and cookies. Clarke was overjoyed by the surprise, later posting on a community Facebook group to show off the gesture. In her thirteen years working in garrison postal across two tours, Clarke had never seen this sort of gift from such a young group.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a quality-of-life service that we provide here, just like when you go to get food or gas, so it\u2019s nice to feel appreciated in that way too,\u201d Clarke said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

While the kids themselves couldn\u2019t come along to drop the goodies off, many of them came around the CMR later to see the impact of their act of kindness on Clarke and her coworkers.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe kids know how to give back; the kids know how to appreciate people in the community, and know they\u2019re appreciated too even though they\u2019re little ones,\u201d Clarke said.<\/p>\n

The cookies disappeared quickly, but the paper hearts with loving messages proudly graced the CMR bulletin board for the rest of the month.<\/p>\n

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Ava Harris is a senior at Stuttgart High School working with the USAG Stuttgart Public Affairs Office as part of DoDEA’s Career Practicum program.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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