Each November we select several youth from Portland that have managed to change their lives around, and are now contributing back to their community. Far to often we are quick to chastise our youth when they get into trouble and short of praise when the do good.  Youth Appreciation is meant to offer praise for a job well done.

We realize that there are many organizations that give baskets to needy families at Christmas time, so we have adopted families who have children that have cancer.   Often times these families are left broke from medical bills, and have no avenue of help.  We supply them with gift certificates to buy Christmas presents and on Christmas Eve, we deliver a complete ready to eat Christmas meal

Winter and spring finds us holding our annual Essay Contest in January.  Winners can go on to win a $ 5,000.00 scholarship.  By spring we are holding our annual Oratorical Contest. Winners in this contest can win a $ 1,500.00 scholarship.

Each club has their ideas about how to have Respect for Law.  The NE Portland Club has dedicated a plaque in honor of the memories of two fallen Portland Police.  Each year an officer is selected to receive the Colleen Wibel, and     award.  The award consist of a name plate added to the plaque that hangs on a wall in the NE Precinct, and they receive a smaller plaque to for the home.

Is our signature fund raiser.  Each year we adopt a an organization such as the Candlelighters to raise funds for.  We sell all day ride bracelets to Oaks Park in Portland, which admits one person on to each ride for the day, and we supply them with lunch.  All of  the proceeds go to the Candlelighters.  

Each summer we try to round up a group of kids and take them out to a trout farm where they can fish.  The idea here is that if you give a person a fish, they eat for a day, but if you teach them to fish, they eat for life.  Our fishing derby day gives a needy child a chance to feed his/her family.  A invaluable lesson.

The Tri Star Sports program allows underprivileged children the opportunity to compete for 1st, 2nd and 3rd place with in a certain age group. Many of these children never compete in such things, our hopes are that win or lose they will learn a valuable lesson that trying is better than not trying at all.