Water Lantern Festival

ML, Rosemead, D10S

The month of June means the amazing Water Lantern Festival. Water Lantern Festival happens semi-annually at the Whitter Narrows Recreation Area. We volunteer on June 21st and June 23rd from 3:30 pm to 11:30 pm. This service allowed volunteers to earn a total of 8 service hours per day they volunteered. At the Lantern Festival, people create paper lanterns from kits sold online, and when it turns 8 pm, the event's “letting go” ceremony begins. At the festival, our volunteers were split into different groups to tackle different duties. There was a group of volunteers for checking in the people. There was another group to help pick up trash around the park and lake area. Lastly, there was a group helping maintain the parking lot and ensuring there was no traffic around the area and everyone could park. At the end of the night, our volunteers cleaned out the lake and all the lanterns. We all did a walk around the park to make sure there was no more trash left behind. These two days were very exciting and busy for our Rosemead Key Clubbers.