LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT

Volunteer centre
honors students

A GROUP of local students was honored last week for
community contributions they made working for the North
Shore Information and Volunteer Centre.

“Although we have an official
recognition week in the spring, we
would like to acknowledge youth
in a small way now,”’ says centre
board member Irene Duncan. ‘We
feel that often students don't
associate volunteer recognition
week with something they did eight
or nine months previously."’

For Sean Collier, a 13-year-old
Hillside student, volunteering was
just a fun way to spend the sum-
mer.

Collier was looking for a way to
put to work skills he learned in a
leadership development course
when at the beginning of the
summer he saw a poster calling for
volunteers for the Eagle Harbour
Community Centre preschool.

One phone cail led to six weeks
of assisting leaders with field trips,
crafts and organizing special theme
weeks. The best project of the
summer, Collier says, was a
homemade water slide constructed
of plastic, soap and water.

Lisa Reynolds, a 17-year-old
Argyle Secondary graduate. calls
her summer volunteer work ‘‘a
neat experience’’.

Reynolds set a goal to work one
day a week as a volunteer as she

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began her summer job search. A
friend mentioned that the North
Shore Neighborhood House need-
ed volunteers for a children’s day
camp, and Reynolds was on her
way.

Two weeks of voluntecring
brought Reynolds a pleasant sur-
prise. One of the staff counsellors
from the camp had to resign and
Reynolds was offered the position.
“‘T was taken totally by surprise,"’
she said. ‘*! knew the position was
open, but it never entered my mind
that they would ask me.’*

The graduate also recommended
volunteer work to other students
and talked several of her friends
into volunteering for the camp.

Stephanie Pink*s friends, at
first, were not quite as enthusiastic
as Reynolds’ friends. They just
could not understand why she
would want to get up early every
morning for no pay.

Pink had not planned on volun-
teering. She had a full-time job in
a fashion store that was to last the
whole summer, but bankruptcy lefi
her faced with two months with
nothing to do.

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“The changes in my thighs actually changed my wardrobe. | used to wear
baggy clothes for camoutlage. | could never have reshaped my thighs with
diet alone. | used to Muctuate 5 pounds over a weekend and it could never
make this much difference. Now | wear «nit dresses and tailored pants.”

39 ~ Sunday, September 13, 1987 BShore News

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NEWS photo Mike Wakefield

STUDENTS DEREK Pink (left), Stephanie Pink and Sean Collier gave up a portion of their summer vacation
time to volunteer with the North Shore Information and Volunteer Centre. The three, who returned to school

last week, say they will continue to do volunteer work.

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