Letter to the editor: Say thanks to a volunteer

We can define a volunteer as someone who offers to undertake a task without being paid. While many sign up, join a board or offer to help, the true volunteer is the person you probably have never seen in print, a photo or on stage.

They are the Johnsons who show up at fires, deliver blood, take meals to strangers stuck in storms on the turnpike or help a neighbor. They are Meals on Wheels volunteers who make and deliver food every week for years. They arrive at events three hours early to set up and stay late to clean up. They are teachers who spend time outside of school talking to students, or find them coats or food to eat on weekends.

A volunteer can work full time and spend spare time as treasurer, raising money and assuring financial integrity for a nonprofit organization. They are firemen and women who respond at all hours, 365 days a year. They coach at local recreation programs, answer hotline calls for help, and pack trucks for food distribution or serve food to the hungry.

I don’t know them all, but you probably know some. Thank them today.

Charlotte Kemerer

Greensburg