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National Volunteer Week occurs in mid
April each year and DeLeon Volunteers were out enjoying the beautiful
day and helping others by participating in Make a Difference Day,
Saturday, April 22.
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a wonderful turnout of volunteers to do work for the widows and
handicapped of our community, we organized into four teams to cover
the four quadrants of the city with Archie Frost, Lonnie Richardson,
Carl Strube, Jack Pilcher, Christine Steed, Waymon Johnson, Greg
Cisneroz, Blanton Jones, Jackie Gentry, Dean Nowlin, Donnie Nowlin,
D’Arla Nowlin, John Weaver and Marshal and Linda Valentino (this
couple is new to DeLeon and just wanted to be involved in helping
others.)
The work party this year included three
women, which is the first time we’ve had women volunteers work in the
Make A Difference Day program. Thank you ladies, you showed the men
how to do it.
Work was done from the south on Hwy 16 to
the north side of DeLeon on N. Texas and N. Travis, to the west on
Ayers Street, to the east on Mohon and S. Comanche.
Our workers finished by 2 p.m. and a good
day was had by all. Many blessings were received -- thank you’s, a
cash donation, and one lady on Mohon purchased lunch for her work
crew. We also had one lady call in to offer to donate two air
conditioners for the elderly should anyone need this kind of help.
Work consisted of tree trimmings,
clipping hedges, poison for ants, tearing down a gate, clearing debris
off roofs, removing a door, clearing flower beds, other small
requests, and hauling off the limbs and trimmings.
Thanks to all you volunteers for your
work to help others.
Sometimes we get caught up in living for
the future and we really don’t realize the wonderful blessings we can
experience today just by helping others. We need to remember that the
things we do today can make a difference, and the people we meet today
might be some of the best friends we will ever know. The point of all
this is to say -- enjoy today. Help someone, your blessings are
multiplied. |
