The volunteer group, based at the Loose Senior Center in Linden, began with 3 members and has grown to 85.
“By helping others, we enrich our own lives.” This is the belief behind the Loose Senior Center’s Community Angels volunteer group, said Sandra Davies, who leads it. The group was founded by Loose member Terry Thomas in February 2008. There were three Community Angels in the beginning. That number has grown to 85, Davies said. Davies began leading the charge in 2009. Community Angels appreciate what the community does for them, and the Angel program is one way they express their thanks, she said. They’ve pitched in to help at Mom to Mom sales, rolled up their sleeves to assist with fundraisers for Adopt-A-Pet, lent a hand with the Back to the Bricks car shows in Linden and Fenton, and stuffed Easter eggs with candy for the annual Easter …
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Late social worker, Nancy Stockham, of Fenton, began the program for families in need. The community gathered at Fenton United Methodist Church Tuesday.
Many hands made 95 Thanksgiving baskets fill quickly at the Fenton United Methodist Church’s Family Life Center on Tuesday. Volunteers from the Fenton High School National Honor Society, Fenton Educational Support Personnel, City of Fenton Fire Department, Fenton United Methodist Church, Loose Senior Center Community Angels and the community helped unload food and other necessities and fill boxes for people in need. Later in the day, families visited to collect their baskets, which contained a turkey, potatoes, milk, stuffing, fruit and other trimmings for Thanksgiving dinner, as well as other food and necessities for them. A Fenton Area Public Schools bus drove up to the church, carrying a full load of donated items for the baskets. …
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Volunteers help fill Thanksgiving baskets for families who need them. The families picked up their baskets on Tuesday.
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8:11 am on Wednesday, November 21, 2012
Nancy would be proud as well as happy to know this program is still being carried on. What a wonderful legacy, more enduring than a plaque or proclamation, those helped will carry her kindness as well as the kindness of thee volunteers in their hearts always. more ›