No matter what project or activity, we are always focused on our core mission of Historic preservation, Patriotism and Education; currently our strategic Initiatives are centered around the following:
EDUCATION
History Books for Teachers
Each year we budget monies for our middle school social studies teachers to help them promote the history of our country. We meet with them and present the gift card and allow them to pick the best books for their students.
Milk Caps for Moola–Longmont Dairy Cap Collection
Carbon Valley Chapter will collect and donate caps to local schools. Bring your caps to meetings. How does the program work? Drink Longmont Dairy Milk (eligible cap products include milk, chocolate milk, strawberry milk, half & half, whipping cream, orange juice, lemonade, raspberry lemonade, classic and cinnamon eggnog). Save the bottle caps. Save as many as you can—from your bottles or collect them from your family and neighbors. Bring your milk caps to school and put them into the collection box in your classroom.
DAR Schools
Kate Duncan Smith (KDS) DAR
American Indian Schools
Chemawa Indian School
Bacone College
DAR Approved Schools
Berry College, Inc.
Hillside School
Hindman Settlement School
Crossnore School and Children’s Home
Outstanding Teacher of American History Contest
The Outstanding Teacher of American History Contest honors notable full-time teachers of history (and related fields such as social studies, government, and citizenship education) in public, private, and parochial schools, grades 5-12. These teachers have demonstrated excellence in:
- Readily sharing an incisive knowledge of American history
- Being committed to their students
- Fostering a spirit of patriotism and loyal support of our country
- Relating history to modern life and events
- Requiring high academic standards at all times from their students Carbon Valley Chapter shall allocate $200 toward this
Woman in American History Award
The emphasis of this award is on the role of women, past and present, in American history. Chapters are encouraged to select a notable woman from their state or community to honor. March is officially “Women’s History Month,” so chapters may wish to use this occasion to acknowledge the outstanding contributions of the woman of their choice.
The DAR Good Citizen Award
Frederick, Mead, and Skyline High School staffs as well as private, charter, or home-school high school staff in Carbon Valley’s designated area may select one senior per year to receive the award for their school based on the criteria required.
DAR Good Citizen Essay Scholarship Contest
Each winning Good Citizen by their school may choose to compete in the Scholarship Essay Contest. Only one student will win first place for his/her essay for Carbon Valley Chapter. The scholarship amount will be $300, plus other awards as designated by the National Society. They also have the chance to move on to state, district, and national to win higher scholarships designated by state, district, and national each year.
Essay Contests
American History Essay Contest
Patriots of the American Revolution High School Essay Contest
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CONSERVATION
Can Recycling
Aluminum cans are collected; the recipient of the funds generated is The Wild Animal Sanctuary.
Pop Tops
C.A.R. state theme is “To Preserve America’s History and Honor Our Patriots.” Their project is to continue to collect pull tabs for the Ronald McDonald House (RMDH), and to collect old bedding and towels for local humane societies. Societies are to donate these items to their local humane societies. Please continue to save your pop tabs for C.A.R.
Trex Community Challenge
Trex plastic film recycling challenge. How does the challenge work? Determine a six-month collection time period. Collect a minimum of 500 lb or 40,500 plastic film and bags. Weigh and record the amount of film recycled each month. Deliver the collected plastic film to a participating retailer for recycling.
Carbon Valley Chapter chose April 1-September 31, 2020, and we exceeded our goal by mid-June. We continued to collect for another six-month period, working with our Longmont Chapter, Longs Peak. We’ve had so much fun doing this, each of us working toward a zero-waste goal! We have been so successful in this activity that through the challenge we were awarded a Trex bench which we dedicated to the Historic Highlandlake Cemetery in June 2021.
By December 1, 2021, we received our second bench and it was placed and dedicated on December 17, 2021, on the Weld County Legacy Trail. As of December 20, 2021, we are working on our third bench and have two locations interested–Weld County Legacy Trail and the High Plains Library in Firestone.
This is a worthwhile project and now we may have assistance from the Longs Peak Sons of the American Revolution Chapter interested in helping obtain plastics for the third and fourth benches. We continue to collect stretchy plastic and hope for another bench to donate soon.
PATRIOTISM
Pocket Stars
Create pocket stars to give to active military and veterans, enabling us to recycle worn out flags. We cut stars off the flag and put them in small clear baggie with the phrase:
“I am part of our American Flag that has flown over the USA. I can no longer fly, The sun and winds caused me to become tattered and torn. Please carry me a reminder that you are not forgotten.”
PAMVETS
Eat Breakfast with Veterans and hand out pocket stars/Christmas cards. Donate $100 to their organization in support of the veterans. Present Vietnam lapel pins to Vietnam veterans.
National Salute to Veteran Patients Program
Travel to Wyoming each year, generally close to Valentines Day, to visit the hospital residents and hand out gifts and donations of items to veterans including large print playing cards, books, DVDs, CDs and puzzles.
Operation Military Care K9
K9 postage and care package items are sent for two care packages to go overseas for military working dogs. Items are collected year-round and shipped when the box is full enough.
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Donations for Flags
Carbon Valley Daughters accept donations for 3 ft x 5 ft durable polyester, made in the USA, American flags. These flags are available for a minimum donation of $30. Your donation supports many of our ongoing programs, such as: history books for schools; Operation Military Care, for which we ship care packages to military dogs and their handlers; National Salute to Veteran Patients, for which we provide gifts for veterans; and much more. For more information about donations click here.
WOMEN’S ISSUES
Free the Girls
This organization exist to help girls rescued from sex trafficking to live a life of true freedom. DAR partners to donate new or slightly used bras. We collect and drop off at Heart of Longmont Church. By donating your slightly used bras you also contribute to our conservation efforts by keeping items out of the landfill.
HISTORIC PRESERVATION
Historic Highlandlake Pioneer Cemetery cleanup
Each year we spend time cleaning up the Historic Pioneer Cemetery in Mead. Through our conservation efforts we were able to dedicate a bench in the historic cemetery.
COMMUNITY EVENTS
- Support of naturalization ceremonies
- VA National Salute to Veterans
- Highland Lake Pioneer Days
- 4th at Firestone
- Mead Community Days and Sugar beet Festival
- Frederick Miner’s Day
- Proud American Military Veterans Breakfast Club (PAMVET) ongoing support
COMMUNITY SERVICE
Community Service Award
The purpose of the Community Service award is to recognize on a chapter or state level unpaid voluntary community service of individuals and organizations.
Recipient qualifications must include:
- Contributing to the community in an outstanding manner through cultural, educational, humanitarian, patriotic, historical, citizenship, or environmental conservation endeavors or by organizing or participating in community activities.
- Efforts must have been in the last five years with no compensation.
- Members of NSDAR are eligible for this award if the service is unrelated to their DAR activities.
- Our chapter presents two awards per year.
2021-2023 Chapter Committees