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In recognition that more support was needed for victims of crime in Laconia, New Hampshire, The Victim Services Unit of the Laconia…
Over the last twenty years, Stanley Michael Latta [Stan] has focused a vast majority of his time, energy, finances, and prayers to…
Chris Reed has been a volunteer with the Utah County Search and Rescue team for over 25 years. In addition to that,…
Beta Club members accumulated more than 2550 service hours in the 2003-2004 school year. New service projects were developed as well as…
Cathy Perfecta Walters has been a Cahves County RSVP volunteer since April, 1998. She has accrued over 5600 hours of service to…
Joe Lewright is a man with a generous heart, an indomitable spirit and a love for his community. Two years ago he…
In the fall of 1996 the Police Department had just graduated from its first Citizen Police academy with fifteen graduates; the Department…
Veronica Osorio is a leader and role model for the All Stars Project, Inc. in Newark, NJ. A junior at Montclair State…
In 2003, Jean Sacatsh was honored for her exemplary volunteer service with the Retired and Senior and Senior Volunteers Program’s Outstanding Quality…
Clifford J. Benfield is the contributing resource behind many successful historic educational efforts in Southold Town. As Southold was founded in 1640,…
The tradition of service to the community can be traced to the example of our Founding Fathers; some of whom were Stafford…
Ritha May is the original chair of the Northern Utah Division of Friends for Sight (formerly Prevent Blindness Utah). She established the…
In the spring of 2003, Hope Bertelsen, a seventh grader, was diagnosed with neuroblastoma – a rare cancer that usually strikes very…
The SUPPORT Hotline provides telephone crisis intervention and is a program of Portage Path Behavioral Health, an adult community mental health center…
There is a couple in the Harrodsburg community that continuously volunteer and sacrifice their own time and finances to help others. This…
Judy Jacobsen selflessly donates not only to the Community Service Council organization, but to the many other volunteer activities she performs elsewhere,…