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News Advertiser
APRIL 22, 2020
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Talk of the Town on Volunteering Rosanne Fortier News Correspondent National Volunteer Week for 2020 is held from April 19-25. This week is meant to show appreciation and celebrate Canada’s 12.7 million volunteers. This year’s theme: ‘It’s time to applaud this country’s volunteers’. The Town of Vegreville has so many volunteers who contribute numerous hours of their skills and talents to ensure Vegreville is one of the best communities to live in. When citizens of Vegreville were asked why volunteers were important, their answers varied, but all held to the same sentiments that life would not be the same without volunteers.
Terry Kubin said she feels volunteering is great because you are active with other people of the same mind. “You are doing something for someone else which always makes you feel good. You are usually in a large group with intelligent people who have wonderful ideas and who spark other ideas,” Terry explained. “Most of all volunteers are important to society because they are free and they don’t mind being free. They can pick and choose their activities with like-minded people. Also, there are many jobs that wouldn’t get done if it wasn’t for volunteers. They do make the world a better place. Just like our little great-grandson said, ‘Nana, I want to make the world a better place.’
Another resident of Vegreville, Ardythe Butler said volunteering shows we are a community that helps each other. “They say it takes a village to raise a child and all the wonderful volunteer programs that took place for my children from soccer, skating, Ukrainian dancing, and all the parents who took part to make that happen, they gave my children a wonderful childhood. Volunteers make the community fun to live in. As well, volunteers are always needed. I think Family and Community Support Services (FCSS) are looking for ways to get volunteers organized to help people who need help during this crisis (COVID-19 pandemic). Then I just
think volunteering makes a community work. I think volunteers just make it a good experience for a refugee family who are quite content to live in Vegreville over a big city because volunteers took the time to spend time with them and help them to learn and grow. So, I think volunteers are super and extremely important,” added
St. Martin`s School - CONTINUED from front page story hit Facebook on Saturday we have sent headbands to St. Joseph’s Hospital, Two Hills Health Centre, local EMS, and have a package going to the Vegreville Care Centre Tuesday morning.`` In terms of production, each ear guard takes an hour to make. As of Noon on April 14, they had produced nearly 70 of them. The ear guards are free, and Sorochan said they have been very much appreciated, especially since many frontline workers are now required to wear their masks during their entire shift.
As far as other requests, Sorochan said, “We have had some of our student’s parents reach out and ask for family and friends who work in the healthcare industry and we have passed on to them as well. Monday evening a nurse from the Border City Clinic in Lloydminster asked for some so we are going to send some there.” The plan is to keep printing the bands while there is a demand for them. Sorochan added that if anyone with a 3D printer wants to contribute, they can go to https://www.thingiverse. com/thing:4249113 for the pattern.
