Yesterday was Keller William's RED DAY. "Giving back where we live". This year we played soccer and BBQ'd, it was great. The kids had to ask us questions about our professional past. Questions like; what was your first job, how much did you get paid and what did you like about it. I ended up talking to some great teenagers who are just now finding out thath there IS a future for them in society.

Below is an email from my team leader at the office. Makes me feel good that little things, go a long way.

Bottom line; play more sports, BBQ often and hang out with people you don't know once in a while.



"I want to thank everyone who participated in Red Day, It was a huge success!

We had a great day with the kids, We had a scavenger hunt with questions that the kids asked us and they got raffle tickets for getting into dialogue, thank you Jeanine for putting that together. We BBQ'd hamburgers and Hot dogs, thank you Jose for staying over the grill and thank you to everyone who provided items and helped prepare. And we had a soccer tournament, thank you Marcos, Wilson, Pat, Kevin and Nivias daughter Arianna for participating in the tournament.

Want to know what you accomplished? As we were in the park with the kids, the principle, councilor and committee members were in a meeting talking about closing the hope academy's sport program. For those of you that were there, they were the professional looking team that showed up in the green van. The sports program is one of the great things that keeps the kids off the street and it was going to be canceled. The kids showed up with their trophy very excited and wanted to share what a great day they had. They were asked several questions about the day and were very excited about their trophy. The committee chair closed her folder and said this discussion is over. You saved their program!

Thank you again. I look forward to working with you to change more lives.

Your Team Leader,

Elaine"