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United We Serve Update

We are at the half-way point of this summer's national service initiative, United We Serve. Virginia's response to the effort, aimed at engaging all Americans in service, has been outstanding. Below are just a few highlights.

  • Governor Timothy M. Kaine participated in two United We Serve volunteer projects at the end of July including a clean up project at Pocahontas State Park and weatherization of a home. The projects are highlighted at the Serve.gov blog, which is focusing on energy and environment success stories. Watch the video. See photos.
  • First Lady Anne Holton and Interior Secretary Ken Salazar visited Shenandoah National Park to join volunteers and youth groups, including members of the Youth Conservation Corps and interns from the secretary's own office, to help remove invasive nonnative plants from Big Meadows Swamp. Watch the video. Read more.
  • Anthony Conyers Jr., commissioner of the Virginia Department of Social Services, civic groups, elected leaders and several city and state agencies took part in a Weed and Seed Safe Haven community event in Petersburg. Participants and volunteers read to and encouraged children to read, and passed out brochures about city services throughout the Robert E. Lee neighborhood. See photos.
  • Book on Bases, Smiling Faces - Kids in Distressed Situations, Inc. (K.I.D.S.) and Blue Star Families joined forces to bring the joy of reading to military children by donating new books to military-impacted libraries and schools, and providing individual kids with books of their own. The distribution of donated books took place at Bayside Elementary School in Virginia Beach with local military children and their families and friends participating in reading and craft activities.
  • Volunteers worked in a garden planted specifically to grow food for the Central Virginia Food Bank at Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden in Richmond. See photos.
  • Rooftop of Virginia, a community action agency located in Galax, is sponsoring a United We Service project on Friday, August 14, from 8:00 am until 6:00 pm. Using donated space, staff, volunteers and children from the Head Start program will be participating in a back-to-school health fair.

Have you gotten involved? Are you aware of the variety of ways you can? You can now search for Serve.gov volunteer opportunities at VAservice.org.

Published on Wednesday, August 12, 2009

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