West Oaks Civitan

02/19/2026

Peg Kulas

12/12/2025

The West Oaks Civitan Club members met to wrap Christmas gifts for four families in need. Members purchased and donated a variety of items for eight children and included gift cards for their parents to make their holidays happy and bright. Our thanks to the Farmington School Community Liaison for giving us those names along with sizes and items hoped for.

10/26/2025

The second part of the "Pop Open A Good Book" project was held on July 8th at Hillside Elementary. A total of 318 students in the CLASS English Language Learner program ranged from pre-kindergarten through 12th grade. Each student received a book of their choice to keep and take home, a scratch and sniff popcorn bookmark, a bag of popcorn, and a designer bag to carry it all. Our thanks to the Farmington/Farmington Hills Foundation for their generous support of this project.

10/26/2025

Our second summer project as part of "Pop Open A Good Book" was held at Hillside Elementary School on July 8th for CLASS English Language Learner students. There were a total of 318 students ranging from pre-kindergarten to 12th grade. Each student choose a book to keep as their own, a bookmark, a bag of pop corn, and a bag to help carry it all home. Our thanks to the Farmington/ Farmington Hills Foundation for their financial support to enhance our Civitan summer reading project.

06/28/2025

The West Oaks Civitan Club is proud to once again provide our "Pop Open A Good Book" project to the students enrolled in the Farmington literacy "Read And Wonder" summer program. One of our members, Kathy Jennens, read a book prior to students choosing a book of their own to keep. A total of 160 students also got a bookmark, a bag of pop corn, and a bag to help carry it all home. Our thanks to the Farmington/ Farmington Hills Foundation for their financial support to enhance our Civitan summer reading project.

03/15/2025

On Friday, March 14th, the West Oaks Civitan members and friends read to students at Beechview Elementary to celebrate "March is Reading Month".

03/11/2025

Civitans enjoyed such a heart warming day celebrating "March is Reading Month" at Gill Elementary. Students loved choosing books and blankets to cuddle up and READ.

12/13/2024

12/11/2024

Our West Oaks Civitan members generously provided gifts for 6 families in need. We shopped, purchased, wrapped and delivered the gifts to Farmington Public Schools Family Support Liaison, Hatty Ligon, for distribution.

08/03/2023

he West Oaks Civitans were so very happy to bring smiles to the faces of so many Farmington summer school students encouraging them to READ, READ, READ! We met the needs of over 350 elementary students in the "CLASS " program, the "READ and Wonder" program and the "Lanigan School" program.

05/11/2023

West Oaks Civitan successfully sponsored their annual literacy tea to raise funds for youth literacy activities in the Farmington Public Schools.

03/19/2023

West Oaks Civitans enjoyed another rewarding week celebrating "March is Reading Month" by visiting both Gill Elementary and Lanigan. Members shared picture books to promote Farmington's "One School, One Book" program featuring Cilla Lee Jenkins Author Extraordinaire at Gill. At Lanigan we were pleased to share blankets provided by students from Madonna University's Future Teachers, Early Childhood Club and Kappa Delta Pi along with books provided by our club.