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Pine School lower campus embraces Family
Volunteering Day PRESS RELEASE DATE: NOVEMBER 20, 2008
The entire Pine
School lower campus will participate in
Family Volunteering Day Nov. 22.
Students will
decorate 2,000 brown paper lunch bags to be
filled with stocking stuffers for the White
Doves Holiday Project, a Martin Volunteers
program of United Way of Martin County.
This annual day
of service, presented by HandsOn Network,
generated by Points of Light Institute and
The Walt Disney Company, takes place the
Saturday before Thanksgiving and is designed
to demonstrate the power of families who
choose to volunteer together to support the
communities in which they live and serve.
Family Volunteer
Day’s call to action is, “Be an Incredible
Family – Volunteer! The Incredibles, can
teach families something about
volunteering.”
Visit the Family
Volunteer Day Web site,
www.familyvolunteerday.org, to read how the
individual talents of the Incredible family
work together and highlight the power of
family volunteering.
“We sincerely
appreciate the Pine School students’
involvement in this project,” Martin
Volunteers volunteer coordinator Carlene
Stangle said. “This is a great opportunity
for them to experience what it is like to
help those less fortunate.”
Anyone wishing
to make a monetary donation can also send it
to White Doves Holiday Project, PO Box 362,
Stuart, FL 34995. ABOUT WHITE
DOVES The annual White
Doves Holiday Project serves as a central
clearinghouse for donated food and toys at
holiday time. The massive undertaking is a
project of Martin Volunteers, a program of
United Way of Martin County, and pools the
resources of dozens of volunteers, community
groups, agencies, families, businesses and
faith-based and civic organizations.
More information
is available at
www.martinvolunteers.org/whitedoves or
by calling (772) 220-4472. |
