Martin Luther King, Jr. Day of Service 2008

At the Montgomery County Volunteer Center's Day of Service, community member participated in the Polar Fleece Comfort Shawl & Scarf Project. Young volunteers created fleece shawls and scarves to be given to hospice patients and family members, to wrap them in the comfort hospice can provide.

Read about the event and see another picture of youth volunteers in the Gazette.

Excerpt from Isiah Leggett Reports: January 2008 "A DAY ON, NOT A DAY OFF": I stopped by the Conference Center where our Volunteer Center hosted a very successful volunteer event that was designed to give residents of all ages an opportunity to observe a day "on," not a day "off." I was extremely gratified to see so many of you turn out - about 900 in all - to participate in a variety of activities that benefitted those less fortunate within our community. Some assembled bag lunches for area homeless shelters and created polar fleece scarves for Montgomery Hospice patients and families, while others made holiday gifts for young patients at Children's Inn at NIH, and assembled "snow day" boxes for local Meals on Wheels programs.