{"id":282136,"date":"2026-04-23T15:03:55","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T15:03:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/282136\/"},"modified":"2026-04-23T15:03:55","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T15:03:55","slug":"senior-assisteens-celebrated-the-commencement-of-their-years-of-service-at-a-formal-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/282136\/","title":{"rendered":"Senior\u00a0Assisteens\u00a0Celebrated the Commencement of their Years of Service at a Formal Event"},"content":{"rendered":"

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At a formal event on April 10, Fullerton Assisteens honored eighteen of their senior high school members who will soon be headed to college.
Assisteens, an auxiliary volunteer group of the Assistance League of Fullerton,\u00a0was formed\u00a0in 1964 to enable\u00a0teenagers\u00a0to help others\u00a0while learning leadership skills.<\/p>\n

The Assisteens auxiliary is made up of seventh through twelfth graders.\u00a0 The group\u00a0currently\u00a0has 80 members with a waiting list of teens who want to join, and is open to male members, as well.<\/p>\n

Assisteens\u00a0earn volunteer hours working on their community service projects,\u00a0and they support projects of the Assistance\u00a0League of Fullerton,\u00a0 including fundraising activities\u00a0like Taste of the Town\u00a0(coming up\u00a0October 3)\u00a0and the\u00a0nonprofit\u00a0thrift\u00a0shop\u00a0at 233 W. Amerige Avenue. The Assistance League credits thrift shop sales to the Assisteens for the\u00a0hours\u00a0they volunteer as\u00a0sales clerks\u00a0and donation sorters, and these funds form the budget for the Assisteens\u2019\u00a0philanthropic activities. During\u00a0the school year, they volunteer at the thrift shop on Saturdays, and in the\u00a0summer, Assisteens\u00a0help with many thrift shop operational tasks.<\/p>\n

This year,\u00a0eleven\u00a0members earned\u00a0 Bronze, Silver, and Gold\u00a0National Volunteer Service Awards\u00a0for their volunteer service hours. One member earned a\u00a0Young Adult Gold\u00a0award, recognizing\u00a0316 completed service hours.<\/p>\n

This past year,\u00a0the\u00a0Assisteen\u2019s\u00a0community\u00a0projects\u00a0helped\u00a0the Boys and Girls Club\u00a0(they\u00a0filled backpacks with\u00a0school\u00a0supplies), and they held a holiday party for children from the Boys and Girls Club, complete with Santa\u00a0and wrapped gifts\u00a0they shopped for from\u00a0the children\u2019s\u00a0wish lists. They provided Halloween candy for the\u00a0City of Fullerton for\u00a0Octoboofest; they filled\u00a0Hygiene baskets\u00a0for\u00a0Crittenton\u00a0 Children and Families.
At Thanksgiving, they filled food baskets for needy families in the Fullerton School District. They collected and donated clothing for a local homeless shelter; they collected plastic (or paper) bags for the Pathways of Hope food distribution program, and made cold-weather survival kits for Pathways of Hope, specifically for homeless people.<\/p>\n

They earned money\u00a0to provide\u00a0six\u00a0$1,000 scholarships for six\u00a0Fullerton high school\u00a0 seniors; they\u00a0helped at the Day of Authors\u00a0 fundraiser\u00a0for another auxiliary volunteer group, ALPHA (Assistance League Professional Humanitarian Auxiliary). The group made 1,600 bagged rewards for the Fullerton\u00a0 Public Library\u2019s\u00a0Summer Reading Program.<\/p>\n

Their last community event\u00a0this year\u00a0will be\u00a0a\u00a0cleanup of Laguna Lake at the end of April in partnership with OC United\u2019s I Love Fullerton volunteer day.<\/p>\n

To join Assisteens, contact Assisteens@alfullerton.org. For more information: http:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/fullerton\/<\/a><\/p>\n

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