We've Got The County Covered
We've Got The County Covered
Eleven year old Clara Laird spent time this summer volunteering at the sweet Memorial Nursing Home. Clara mainly worked with Activities during her visits. She said walking with the residents and reading to them were her two favorite things to do and playing Shuffleboard with the residents brought the biggest smiles to their faces and thusly made Clara very happy as well.
Volunteering your time and effort to help others is a fantastic thing to do no matter how old you are but is always refreshing when it is a young person recognizing and wanting to do something to help his or her community.
Chinook sixth grader Clara Laird is one such person. The energetic 11 year old first began thinking about wanting to volunteer somewhere way back in fifth grade as the school year began to wind down. "I just thought that their had to be something that somebody my age could do to help the community," said Clara.
When school got out in late may she asked her parents for permis...
