Temescal’s Interactive Club serves communities

The students at Temescal Canyon High School are fulfilling the commitment they made when they joined the Interact Club. Interact is Rotary International’s service club for young people ages 14 to 18.

The clubs are sponsored by individual Rotary clubs with support and guidance but they are self-governing and self-supporting.

The Temescal Canyon High School’s Interact Club is 154 strong. Thirty percent of the club’s students reside in Canyon Lake, according to Brittany Driesler, one of the club’s two advisors.

Interact clubs complete at least two community service projects each year, one of which furthers international understanding and goodwill. Temescal’s Interactive Club goes above and beyond that goal by completing at least one community service project per month. Some of the students also earn extra community service hours by serving as volunteers at many events held by Canyon Lake clubs.

Through these efforts, Interactors develop a network of friendships with local and overseas clubs and learn the importance of developing leadership skills and personal integrity, demonstrating helpfulness and respect for others, understanding the value of individual responsibility and hard work and advancing international understanding and goodwill.

Temescal’s recent community projects include cleaning up the levee in Lake Elsinore, filling sandbags for homeowners affected by the Holy fire, drawing murals at Wildomar Elementary School and cleaning up Butterfield Community Center in Wildomar. The club will be cleaning up Lake Elsinore beaches this weekend.

“Our students are ready and willing to help and they always have a great attitude. Often they invite Interactors from other high schools to join them with a project,” said Brittany. “The students enjoy the service and have a lot of fun while helping the community. Some of these students will make great Rotarians when they are adults. Our current Rotary Club President Alex Ela was an Interact student at Lakeside High School.”




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