Wendell Foster’s Aktion Club creates and completes a community service project each month, and this month, club member Sam Rutland proposed that the group make winter scarves as their project.
Wendell Foster, a local agency that serves people with disabilities, and the Owensboro Kiwanis Club sponsor the Aktion Club, which is the only service club for adults with disabilities. The local chapter was chartered almost a year ago on Dec. 12.
John Gleason and Cindy Huston are the club facilitators. Gleason said both try to stay in the background when the club is brainstorming service projects.
“Our goal is to empower the club members,” Gleason said. “So the scarves were something the club came up with themselves.”
Gleason said that Rutland and his mother are both “crafty” with fabrics, so once they had the material, the members went to work cutting the fringed edges, rolling the scarves and then tying them with a card on each.
“We wanted to help other people with the colorful scarves,” Rutland said. “I got to help lead the Aktion Club with making the scarves.”
The 15-member club made over 100 scarves in two hours, all of which were donated to Christmas Wish, a local nonprofit.
“The club knew that the store would get them to those in need,” Gleason said.
Each month the members have a meeting where they decide their next service project. So far they have helped local nursing homes, local homeless shelters, worked with the Owensboro Kiwanis Club placing American Flags around the courthouse and helped with the Kentucky Remembers concert for veterans.
