The Key Club values helping others and serving the community. A national organization that volunteers around various cities, Key Club is in its first year at BSHS. 

Sophomore Myora Slaughter has been an active participant in Key Club this year. While she acknowledged all the volunteer opportunities NHS provides, she urges students to join Key Club, where there are also numerous amounts of community service hours to be grabbed.

“We are one of the leading groups in this school to promote volunteering and to have that national recognition of being the Blue Springs Key Club,” Slaughter said.

The Key Club has done several enticing projects this year, and Slaughter expressed her excitement for an upcoming volunteering opportunity.

“Our next project is making dog toys that we will then give to the KC Pet Project. It’s just a way of making it known that our school, and our students, care about their community and want what’s best for it,” Slaughter said.

While Key Club’s current focus is on helping the KC Pet Project, they put in quite a  few hours at Harvesters recently. Harvesters, a regional food bank that spans across both Missouri and Kansas, has a mission to feed hungry people, and end widespread hunger now.

“We basically packed up food for two hours, but we got to meet the people we were packing up the food for and they were saying things like they didn’t know what they would do if they couldn’t get this. It is really amazing to see and experience that first hand. And it isn’t just those people either, because it is a community thing. Helping out is just a heart kind of thing,” Slaughter said.

Senior Cameron Eichner, also a contributor, noted that Key Club is important not only to the community, but to BSHS in particular.

“A sense of community service is important to have in any school,” Eichner simply said.

English teacher Jamie Littlepage sponsored Key Club in its inaugural year.

“I think it’s important for the kids to become involved in their community and to be leaders. They have really thought about what different groups in Blue Springs might benefit from their help, they decided what activities they wanted to do, and they made it happen,” Littlepage said.

Much like Slaughter and Eichner, Littlepage believes there are many benefits to joining the Key Club.

“The benefits of joining Key Club is being able to serve where you live, serve those you care about, and become empathetic and retrospective,” Littlepage said.

The first year at Key Club was certainly a success for all students involved, and will hopefully run at BSHS for many years to come.