Community Services Volunteers

• Hha Services Volunteers to Green-Up the Detroit Community

DETROIT, June 7, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- HHA Services, a leading provider of healthcare for food and facility management services, and recognized as one of the Top 100 Best Places to Work in Healthcare by Modern Healthcare, teamed up with The Greening of Detroit to plant 212 trees in the neighborhood surrounding Moross Road, near St. John Hospital and Medical Center, in Detroit, Michigan last Saturday. Volunteers included members from the corporate office team, as well as several managers from our partnered facilities in the Metro- Detroit area. HHA Services' owners, Chief Executive Officer, Paul Fayad and President, Dan Bowen, believe in supporting and building an alliance with companies that beautify and develop the community which invest into a better future.

• U.S. Newswire
• June 07, 2011

• More Than 100 ARAMARK Employee Volunteers Refurbish Southeast Community Services, Inc.

Volunteer Project Kicks off New ARAMARK Building Community Partnership; Reinforces Company Commitment to Volunteerism as Part of UNITED WE SERVE IND...

• Business Wire
• August 03, 2009

• Annual Easter Event to Feature Egg Hunt and Rubber Duck Derby

LA MIRADA - City officials say preparations are already under way for its annual Easter Event, a daylong celebration on April 23 that's expected to draw thousands of people to La Mirada Regional Park. Lori Thompson, the city's community services director, said volunteers have been steadily filling thousands of plastic eggs with candy for the city's annual egg hunt, one of several activities on tap for the Easter Event.

• Whittier Daily News
• April 05, 2011

• Volunteers Offer Help During Floods

TO THE EDITORS: The past few days have been traumatic for many people and without our community services volunteers it could have been much worse. A huge thank you to all the volunteers of Lancaster County. Many of these volunteers went 48 hours or more without sleep or a decent meal. Some took vacation days or time off without pay from their jobs to help a community in need.

• Intelligencer Journal Lancaster New Era - Saturday Edition
• September 22, 2011

• Working to Improve Watershed County Stands by Stormwater Rules

--- Kevin Gray, director of Clark County Environmental Services, explains trees being planted by student volunteers at Fairgrounds Community Park will benefit the Whipple Creek watershed.

• The Columbian
• February 04, 2011

• Anissa V. Rivera: Glendorans Honored for Service

It says a lot about Glendora that the city and numerous groups and clubs celebrate service-minded residents and never run out of volunteers to honor. Each year, the Community Services Commission recognizes individual Glendorans for their outstanding volunteer service to the youth and senior citizens of our community. They are the recipients of awards named for individuals who were recognized and remembered for their commitment to community service above self.

• San Gabriel Valley Tribune
• February 04, 2011

• Working to Improve Watershed County Stands by Stormwater Rules

Kevin Gray, director of Clark County Environmental Services, talks about how trees being planted by student volunteers at Fairgrounds Community Park will benefit the Whipple Creek watershed. ---

• The Columbian
• January 25, 2011

• Claremont Group Focusing On Aiding Seniors

CLAREMONT - Sandee Hayden is the director of the RSVP program of volunteers associated with Community Senior Services here. Her job is to help link volunteers with local volunteer opportunities. It's a win-win situation.

• Inland Valley Daily Bulletin
• January 17, 2010

• W.Va. Ranks Near Bottom for College Volunteers: ; Study Shows Nationwide Jump in Students Performing Community Services

Some call them lazy, more interested in partying hard than helping out. But a new study shows college students volunteer at a rate that's grown sharply over the last few years. The number of college students volunteering grew more than 20 percent, from 2.7 million to 3.3 million, between 2002 and 2005, according to a study being released today by the Corporation for National & Community Service, a federal agency. The growth rate for college students is more than double that for all volunteers.

• Charleston Daily Mail
• October 17, 2006

• Students Hear a Special Reading

Northern Shores Elementary School recently celebrated American Education Week with the new superintendent of Suffolk Public Schools, Deran Whitney, who made time to read to Danielle Hare's Early Start class and Traci Ford's first-grade class. The students in both classes enjoyed the story "Doctor De Soto" by William Steig, who also wrote the acclaimed "Shrek." Over at Creekside Elementary, numerous volunteers made a point of offering their services for the Community Reading Day . I caught Carolyn Harris sharing her talents in the Grand Theater with the second-graders and Beth Lyon-Suhring with a special-education class. Oakland Christian Church in Chuckatuck had its annual Fall Fest on Nov. 13. Glorious fall weather was its own blessing for the many volunteers and visitors to the church...

• The Virginian-Pilot and The Ledger-Star, Norfolk, VA
• December 01, 2010