Club Blog
Cheetos Clubs honors teachers during Teacher Appreciation Week May 2-6, 2022
During the week of May 2-6, 2022, the Cheetos Club went into high gear to show teachers at PHS their appreciation for them, during Teacher Appreciation Week! Following is ... Read More
Why Am I Kind, By Selena Conti
Every year the Cheetos Club says goodbye to our seniors by hearing their perspective on a topic related to kindness. This year we have asked them to reflect on ... Read More
Be Kind… Always – Spencer’s mom, Becky Burger
My son, Spencer. He was a beautiful boy from the second he was born until the moment he was called home. September 28, 1997 was just a month shy ... Read More
Teaching kindness: Northern Michigan schools launch kindness initiatives
Jillian Fellows ——- Oct 8, 2020 PETOSKEY -- One of the first things that young students learn — right alongside their 123s and ABCs — is how to be kind ... Read More
Giving back: Petoskey’s Cheetos Club heads school courtyard renovation, dedication
PETOSKEY — Spencer Tibbits’ birthday is Sept. 28. It’s a special, yet emotional day for many past and current Petoskey High School students, as Tibbits passed away on his ... Read More
Dear Cheetos Friends… — Madeline Frey
Dear Cheetos Friends, I’ve written and rewritten this letter three times now, tumbling ideas over and over in my brain, searching for the perfect words to say goodbye, good ... Read More
In the Darkness, Find the Light — By Louise Timm
People said that learning physics would change the way I looked at the world, but I didn’t think it would be like this. Physics class was no joke within ... Read More
School’s Out For Summer (in March) – Nathaniel Wurster
The last day of school came unexpectedly for sure. That Thursday we had finished up a workshop with elementary school students on ways to improve their school environment. We ... Read More

Inspiration
Cheetos Club was inspired by the kindness of Spencer Tibbits. Spencer was a student at Petoskey High School in Northern Michigan who quietly looked for ways to empathize and show kindness to students going through rough times. The extent of his example was not truly realized until his death on his 17th birthday. One story of Spencer’s kindness that has really resonated with students is a time he consoled a struggling student simply by taking a bag of Cheetos from his backpack and telling the student, “Nobody can be sad while eating Cheetos.” The Cheetos Club is a group of students who carry out acts of kindness in his honor by “Planning To Be Kind.”
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