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Outstanding volunteers
NEWS-TIMES
Four county residents — Marie Infinito, Susan Thompson Davis, Carol Smith and Hal Taylor — were presented with North Carolina Awards for Outstanding Volunteer Service. Given Dec. 15, at Coastal Community Action, a federally funded private corporation, in Newport, the awards were made in the name of Gov. Mike Easley.
The N.C. Commission on Volunteerism and Community Service evaluates award nominees, with five nominees allowed per county. Since 1979, more than 15,800 North Carolina volunteers have received the annual awards.
“Volunteers are at the heart of the long standing tradition of community service in our state,” said Gov. Easley, noting the work of these positive role models enriches and improves the lives of others everyday in countless ways and makes a difference in the lives of others.
Ms. Infinito, a volunteer at Morehead City Middle School, started a pen pal exchange between seventh grade students at Morehead City Middle School and students at a school in Bungoma, Kenya. She had planned to deliver the letters to the Kenyan students and take part in the dedication of a well students had been digging for their school, but post election riots in Kenya engulfed the country, disrupting that. But the letters were sent, and the Rev. Jared Olaka, Anglican priest from Kenya, came to Morehead Middle and spoke to the students about Kenya and the uprising.
Ms. Davis, president of Woodman of the World Family Education Center, orders flags for flag presentations and works with fire departments to promote the Homeland Hero’s Program. She also helps coordinate the Carteret County Chamber of Commerce Military Affairs luncheons and the chamber’s Ambassadors Club, visits and conducts parties at 12 different nursing homes each month and serves meals to college students who are helping to build houses for Crystal Coast Habitat for Humanity.
Ms. Smith is volunteer educator and children’s program director at the History Place in Morehead City. She wrote a grant for the “Save Our History” History Channel national grant that the History Place received, and coordinated efforts between Morehead City Elementary at Camp Glenn, forming a partnership between the school and the History Place. She also organized students and taught them techniques on how to properly interview adults for the World War II oral history program at the museum.
Hal Taylor has worked with the Seniors’ Health Insurance Information Program (SHIIP) for years, answering questions and counseling Medicare beneficiaries. He has helped hundreds of people with prescription plans, supplements plans and questions about Medicare Part D Plan. The service coordinator at the 106-resident Ekklesia Retirement Complex in Morehead City said he has been an asset to residents, making himself available for one-on-one counseling or counseling with a group.
We salute these volunteers for their selfless giving that improves the lives of others.
The N.C. Commission on Volunteerism and Community Service evaluates award nominees, with five nominees allowed per county. Since 1979, more than 15,800 North Carolina volunteers have received the annual awards.
“Volunteers are at the heart of the long standing tradition of community service in our state,” said Gov. Easley, noting the work of these positive role models enriches and improves the lives of others everyday in countless ways and makes a difference in the lives of others.
Ms. Infinito, a volunteer at Morehead City Middle School, started a pen pal exchange between seventh grade students at Morehead City Middle School and students at a school in Bungoma, Kenya. She had planned to deliver the letters to the Kenyan students and take part in the dedication of a well students had been digging for their school, but post election riots in Kenya engulfed the country, disrupting that. But the letters were sent, and the Rev. Jared Olaka, Anglican priest from Kenya, came to Morehead Middle and spoke to the students about Kenya and the uprising.
Ms. Davis, president of Woodman of the World Family Education Center, orders flags for flag presentations and works with fire departments to promote the Homeland Hero’s Program. She also helps coordinate the Carteret County Chamber of Commerce Military Affairs luncheons and the chamber’s Ambassadors Club, visits and conducts parties at 12 different nursing homes each month and serves meals to college students who are helping to build houses for Crystal Coast Habitat for Humanity.
Ms. Smith is volunteer educator and children’s program director at the History Place in Morehead City. She wrote a grant for the “Save Our History” History Channel national grant that the History Place received, and coordinated efforts between Morehead City Elementary at Camp Glenn, forming a partnership between the school and the History Place. She also organized students and taught them techniques on how to properly interview adults for the World War II oral history program at the museum.
Hal Taylor has worked with the Seniors’ Health Insurance Information Program (SHIIP) for years, answering questions and counseling Medicare beneficiaries. He has helped hundreds of people with prescription plans, supplements plans and questions about Medicare Part D Plan. The service coordinator at the 106-resident Ekklesia Retirement Complex in Morehead City said he has been an asset to residents, making himself available for one-on-one counseling or counseling with a group.
We salute these volunteers for their selfless giving that improves the lives of others.
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