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Make a Difference Day headlines a full month of October celebrations
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October celebrations include National Food Bank Week and Red Ribbon Week. The days to celebrate are World Smile, Do Something Nice, Evaluate Your Life, National Candy Corn and, of course, Make A Difference Day. Two of these events are celebrated locally.
Red Ribbon Week, held Oct. 23 to 31, unites the county for drug-free communities through educational programming. Display your red ribbon in support.
Make A Difference Day is a signature event in Schuylkill County. Last year, 1,719 individuals and 82 groups registered to help a reported 4,510 individuals, 54 organizations, 36 families, four towns, two foreign countries and a countless number of furry friends. Those are huge numbers. Still, many acts of kindness weren’t able to be recorded and tracked.
This office is the official Make A Difference Day Coordinating Center. As such, it tracks the numbers of participants and beneficiaries. This may not seem important, but it is. These numbers are used for the annual awards reception, when reporting to dignitaries and when applying for a regional or national award. You may not be aware, but the residents of Schuylkill County received state, national and Encore awards in the past.
Statistics are also used to track trends, such as how the national climate influences the kind of projects created. With this information, we can guide groups or the business community looking for a meaningful project to a worthy, but lesser-known organization that may not have benefited from the event in the past.
Some groups don’t register because they participate strictly for humanitarian reasons and don’t want to be considered for one of the annual awards through this office. If that’s the case, check off that box on the form and we’ll respect your wishes. But please register your project.
There are only three weeks until Make A Difference Day. Now is the time to register your project. It’s easy. One-page registrations forms are available online for your convenience at www.republicanherald.com or through this office. The completed form can be mailed, e-mailed or faxed. If you can’t come up with an idea for that special project, we can provide you with a list of easy and fun projects. But don’t delay; time is slipping away.
The following is a list of received registrations as of Sept. 26. (If you registered and your group isn’t listed, contact me. It may have gotten waylaid by the fax fairies):
American Legion Auxiliary Unit 398 of Frackville; Child Development Inc.; Community Support Program; Concept Medical; Frackville Senior Citizens; Friends of Gilberton; Girardville Senior Citizens; Haven Helpers of Schuylkill Haven; Health Service Committee of Episcopal Churches in Schuylkill County; Herring Family of Auburn; Home Instructed Students of Pine Grove; Life Skills Support Class 2 of IU No. 29; Lepera and Emerich of Pottsville; Ms Jarrard and Mrs. Lindner’s English Classes of Mahanoy Area Middle School; Success for Learning Center of Mahanoy Area School District; Mrs. T’s; North Schuylkill Elementary with Ashland Rotary; Pine Grove Area High School and Hug-A-Bear Friends; Providence Place; RSVP of Schuylkill County; Service Access Management; Schuylkill County Government Employees; Schuylkill County Quilters Guild; Schuylkill Regional Resource Center; Simpson United Methodist Church of Gordon; Susquehanna Bank of Orwigsburg; Tamaqua Area Middle School Student Council; Tamaqua Lions Club; The Eighth Notes; TOPS of Gratz and Churches; Tremont Community Organization; VFW Ladies Auxiliary Post 7654 of Ashland; Wal-Mart DC 7030; and Williams Valley Volunteer Home Care.
Northumberland needs
The American Cancer Society is in need for volunteer drivers to transport local cancer patients to treatment and office volunteers for the ACS Patient Resource Office at Geisinger Medical Center in Danville. Training is provided for both positions. Contact Karen Maurer at 326-4149, extension 3003.
(For information about volunteer opportunities, call Community Volunteers in Action, which is part of Schuylkill Co. Human Services, at 628-1426. E-mail: jjohnston@co.schuylkill.pa.us. Volunteer opportunities can also be found at www.1-800-volunteer.org/1800Vol/communityvolunteersinaction)
Red Ribbon Week, held Oct. 23 to 31, unites the county for drug-free communities through educational programming. Display your red ribbon in support.
Make A Difference Day is a signature event in Schuylkill County. Last year, 1,719 individuals and 82 groups registered to help a reported 4,510 individuals, 54 organizations, 36 families, four towns, two foreign countries and a countless number of furry friends. Those are huge numbers. Still, many acts of kindness weren’t able to be recorded and tracked.
This office is the official Make A Difference Day Coordinating Center. As such, it tracks the numbers of participants and beneficiaries. This may not seem important, but it is. These numbers are used for the annual awards reception, when reporting to dignitaries and when applying for a regional or national award. You may not be aware, but the residents of Schuylkill County received state, national and Encore awards in the past.
Statistics are also used to track trends, such as how the national climate influences the kind of projects created. With this information, we can guide groups or the business community looking for a meaningful project to a worthy, but lesser-known organization that may not have benefited from the event in the past.
Some groups don’t register because they participate strictly for humanitarian reasons and don’t want to be considered for one of the annual awards through this office. If that’s the case, check off that box on the form and we’ll respect your wishes. But please register your project.
There are only three weeks until Make A Difference Day. Now is the time to register your project. It’s easy. One-page registrations forms are available online for your convenience at www.republicanherald.com or through this office. The completed form can be mailed, e-mailed or faxed. If you can’t come up with an idea for that special project, we can provide you with a list of easy and fun projects. But don’t delay; time is slipping away.
The following is a list of received registrations as of Sept. 26. (If you registered and your group isn’t listed, contact me. It may have gotten waylaid by the fax fairies):
American Legion Auxiliary Unit 398 of Frackville; Child Development Inc.; Community Support Program; Concept Medical; Frackville Senior Citizens; Friends of Gilberton; Girardville Senior Citizens; Haven Helpers of Schuylkill Haven; Health Service Committee of Episcopal Churches in Schuylkill County; Herring Family of Auburn; Home Instructed Students of Pine Grove; Life Skills Support Class 2 of IU No. 29; Lepera and Emerich of Pottsville; Ms Jarrard and Mrs. Lindner’s English Classes of Mahanoy Area Middle School; Success for Learning Center of Mahanoy Area School District; Mrs. T’s; North Schuylkill Elementary with Ashland Rotary; Pine Grove Area High School and Hug-A-Bear Friends; Providence Place; RSVP of Schuylkill County; Service Access Management; Schuylkill County Government Employees; Schuylkill County Quilters Guild; Schuylkill Regional Resource Center; Simpson United Methodist Church of Gordon; Susquehanna Bank of Orwigsburg; Tamaqua Area Middle School Student Council; Tamaqua Lions Club; The Eighth Notes; TOPS of Gratz and Churches; Tremont Community Organization; VFW Ladies Auxiliary Post 7654 of Ashland; Wal-Mart DC 7030; and Williams Valley Volunteer Home Care.
Northumberland needs
The American Cancer Society is in need for volunteer drivers to transport local cancer patients to treatment and office volunteers for the ACS Patient Resource Office at Geisinger Medical Center in Danville. Training is provided for both positions. Contact Karen Maurer at 326-4149, extension 3003.
(For information about volunteer opportunities, call Community Volunteers in Action, which is part of Schuylkill Co. Human Services, at 628-1426. E-mail: jjohnston@co.schuylkill.pa.us. Volunteer opportunities can also be found at www.1-800-volunteer.org/1800Vol/communityvolunteersinaction)
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