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   Community Service "AnnounceMENTZ"        

For more information contact Paula Potoczak

 

 

 
What is community service?  Let's break it down:

Community: 

  1. "A group of people living in the same locality and under the same government." 
  2. "The district or locality in which such a group lives." 
  3. "A group or class having common interest." 
  4. "Similarity or identity." 
  5. "Society as a whole: the public." 
  6. "Common possession or participation." 

(Definitions from the American Heritage Dictionary.)

Service: 

  • "The occupation or duties of a servant." 
  • "Acts of devotion; witness." 
  • "An act of assistance or benefit to another or others." 

(Definitions from the American Heritage Dictionary.)

So what is community service for members of the VFRW?

How about:  Acts of assistance or benefit to another or others in our district or locality or under the same government?

 
Now that we have a definition, what are we going to do?  Suggestions:
  1. Acts of assistance (volunteer, donate, contribute) to Domestic Violence Shelters in your community.  The cycle of domestic violence can be broken.
  2. Acts of assistance (volunteer, donate, contribute) to homeless shelters in your community.
  3. Acts of assistance (visit on a regular basis, make small gifts, maybe adopt a patient or more) to Veterans Hospitals in your community.  McGuire Hospital gets the brain injured veterans.  Their families need our help.
  4. Acts of assistance at military bases to troops and their families in your community.  Ft. Lee is currently checking with JAG; guidelines can change daily.
  5. Acts of assistance to teach people to read.  "If you think education is expensive, try ignorance."  (Quote by Derek Curtis Bok, President of Harvard University 1971-1990 and July 2006 - present.)
  6. Acts of assistance when natural disasters strike members of your community.
What other ACTS OF ASSISTANCE IN YOUR COMMUNITY can you do? 

Each club has something that stands out as needing the help of Republican Women. Community service is not just for Thanksgiving and Christmas, it's a lifestyle.  Community service chairpersons, please get your committee together and decide what you will do to make a difference in your community.  I await your uplifting reports of the various ways you served your community. 

George H. W. Bush, 41st President of the United States said, "We all have something to give.  so if you know how to read, find someone who can't.  If you've got a hammer, find a nail.  Join the Community of Conscience."

 
 

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