HUGE SUCCESS - BMS's Supplies - COC's NEW Program
Coronado Optimist Club's beginning early this year. Starting in July, COC's yellow donation boxes will be placed at the Bernalillo and Placitas Post Offices to collect school supplies for Bernalillo Middle School. CLICK on the button above to get the scoop!
Scouts Help
Between finding school supplies for our middle schoolers, attending Boy Scout day camps, and learning skills for a lifetime, the Cub Scouts of Pack 708 march in and for our communities.
Photo: Leland Bowen
Coronado Optimists Keep Winning
Our Scholarship Contest Winners!
• Left - Ansel Bejos, Bernalillo High School junior, received Coronado OC's 2015-2016 Essay Contest Award.
• Right - Abdullah Shah, Rio Rancho Cyber Academy senior, received Coronado OC's 2015-2016 Award for our Communication Contest for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing (CCDHH) AND . . . the NM-WT District Award which includes a $2500 scholarship. Pictured are Abdullah with his father and grandfather as he receives the award from District CCDHH Chair Lynne Martin.
Keep UP the Good Work - Together
• Left - Izzy Juarez "Keep Up the Good Work" Award winners receive awards at banquet: Luis Teran-Rascon, 8th Grade, and Shyann Alarid, 6th Grade.
• Right - Our 2015-2016 Friend of Youth Award winners are the Staffs at our Bernalillo and Placitas Post Offices, and from Bernalillo Middle School Principal Jacque Mangham, Teachers Vera Pape and Michael Riemen, and Social Worker Michelle Bane.
How we help
• Left - Pack 708's Blue and Gold Banquet flank those of their annual Pinewood Derby.
• Right - Everyone wins at our Bike Safety Rodeo!
Coronado Optimist Club Cares for Our Youth, Families and Communities
The Coronado Optimist Club serves the young people, families, and communities of southeastern Sandoval County. From Rio Rancho to Placitas with Bernalillo in between. We're a busy group.
As a group of volunteers, we "do" community service projects that help our communities.
A cornerstone of those activities is sponsoring and helping our Cub Scout Pack 708 in Bernalillo and Placitas. And we do lots of other community projects:
• Support our students in attending our New Mexico HOBY Leadership Seminar,
• Help our youngsters with our Bike Safety Rodeo,
• Recognize our teaching and safety communities and their efforts at the Friend of Youth Awards,
• Celebrate our outstanding elementary school students at our Izzy Juarez Keep Up the Good Work Awards,
• Conduct club-level contests so our New Mexico students may qualify for the NM-West Texas District's annual $10,000 scholarship
awards from the Optimist International Foundation.
Let us know what you need, and we'll help. We usually meet at 6 PM, on the SECOND Tuesday of each month at the Range Cafe and tip our hat to member Matt DiGregory, co-owner of the Range.
For further information, please call 505-242-6962.
The Optimist Creed
Promise yourself to be so strong that nothing can disturb your peace of mind.
To talk health, happiness and prosperity to every person you meet.
To make all your friends feel that there is something in them.
To look at the sunny side of everything and make your optimism come true.
To think only of the best, to work only for the best, and to expect only the best.
To be just as enthusiastic about the success of others as you are about your own.
To forget the mistakes of the past and press on to the greater achievements of the future.
To wear a cheerful countenance at all times and give every living creature you meet a smile.
To give so much time to the improvement of yourself that you have no time to criticize others.
To be too large for worry, too noble for anger, too strong for fear,
and too happy to permit the presence of trouble.