We've Got The County Covered
We've Got The County Covered
Brent Schellin, right in photo, goes through the lunch line at Sweet Nursing Home during a luncheon for volunteers that serve the care facility. Activities Manager Jeanne Buffington said there was no way the nursing home could maintain its level of activities without the help of so many volunteers. The special lunch was for volunteers during celebration of National Volunteer Week.
National Volunteer Week, always in April, is a time that many charitable groups and organizations recognize and thank their volunteers. Sweet Nursing Home and the Chinook Senior Center thanked their volunteers with special complimentary lunches and kind words of thanks.
Without putting too fine a point on how these calculations were made, the Bureau of Labor Statistics, and other national groups have compiled some impressive statistics about the number of volunteers in the country and their economic impact on non-profit institutions. Estimates are that nearly 30% of Americans volunteer in some...
