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Northern Miami Valley
Ohio Red Cross Volunteers Honored
Four residents of the Northern Miami Valley were honored at the local
Red Cross Annual Meeting. The meeting was held to review last year’s
accomplishments including: Sound the Alarm efforts, the election of new
officers, and honoring outgoing board members.
The following volunteers were honored for their hard work and
dedication to the Red Cross mission:
Helping Hand Award: The volunteer who is always willing to lend a hand,
no matter who asks or what the job! The winner was Linda Miller from
Springfield, Ohio, who volunteers in the First-Aid Station, in the
Springfield office and is a leadership volunteer in the Veteran
Visitation Program.
Hand in Hand Award: This award went to the PAIR of volunteers who have
found joy in volunteering together. The winners were Tom and Karen
Oliver, of Union City, Indiana and they volunteer all over the country
as deployed disaster volunteers in Logistics and Mass Care.
Round of Applause Award: The volunteer who is everyone's cheerleader,
consistently boosting morale and keeping their fellow volunteers
positive and moving the mission forward. The winner was Myrna Yoder, of
Troy, Ohio, and she volunteers in Disaster Services as a Caseworker and
in Veteran Visitation.
Dirty Hands Award: This volunteer is always doing those jobs that no
one thinks about, or no one else cares to do. The winner was John
Gross, of Troy, Ohio who volunteers in Disaster Services.
Additional awards went out to all volunteers who were currently
certified in CPR and First-Aid, as well as volunteers who also donated
blood during the last year at an American Red Cross Blood Drive. The
National Service to Armed Forces Pin was awarded to volunteers who had
served in Veteran Visitation for the past twelve months, who logged
over 1,300 visits to Veterans in assisted living facilities.
Preparedness volunteers were awarded certificates and pins in the Sound
the Alarm and Home Fire Campaign effort, which installed over 1900
alarms and was credited for saving a young family of three in Piqua,
Ohio. “As a chapter, we had over 200 volunteers donate over 73,000
combined hours worked and on-call serving the communities in which we
live. I’m proud of the efforts made b the willingness of engaged
volunteers to assist whenever a need arises.,” said Terri Flood,
Northern Miami Valley Ohio Board Chair.
Chapter staff were on-hand at the Annual Meeting Volunteer Picnic to
thank not only the volunteers but the numerous partners that make the
work happen. Over twenty-one area businesses were awarded various
certificates, for their role in mission delivery. “Without our
partners, such as Honda, who has an employee volunteer program or the
Springfield Fire Department, who help install alarms, we couldn’t reach
as many people as we do”, quoted Lynne Gump, Executive Director of the
Northern Miami Valley Ohio Chapter. In addition to the above
mentioned, Chapter volunteers responded and gave aid to ninety
disasters, assisting 140 families and educated over 1000 third-fifth
graders in the Pillowcase Program. Volunteer donors gave over
3,200 blood donations, which saves over 9,600 lives.
If you would like to learn more about how you can volunteer with
the American Red Cross, you can apply on-line at redcross.org or simply
call your local office, Springfield, 937.399.3872, Greenville,
937.548.1002 or Troy, 927.332.1414, these three offices serve all six
counties of the NMVO chapter, Clark, Champaign, Darke, Logan, Miami and
Shelby, providing local service with local volunteers and funded by
local donors.
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