Sat Nov 21 2009
VAN WERT -- The 11th annual Van Wert County United Way Day of Caring was held Sept. 25 with more than 120 Vantage Career Center pitching in to help make a difference by volunteering.
The senior medical office management students and their teacher, Linda Bales, purchased groceries for a Vantage food drive from money collected from the high school programs. In all, $1,275 was collected. Vantage students and staff contributed more than 3,000 non-perishable food items to the Salvation Army this year.
Junior and senior industrial mechanics classes and senior early childhood education, along with their teachers, Mike Klutka, Kevin Van Oss and Marcia Osega, volunteered their lab time to work at the Salvation Army Food Drive to sort, count, box and store donated food items from around the county.
Shirley Jarvis and her senior health careers students worked at the bloodmobile held at Trinity Friends Church Family Life Center. Using what they've learned from class and their practical experiences, they performed duties on the bloodmobile floor and in the kitchen and canteen to assist the American Red Cross. The culinary arts class prepared vegetable and chicken noodle soup to feed volunteers at the bloodmobile.
Vantage student ambassadors also participated by working on two Day of Caring projects -- Habitat for Humanity and Van Wert YMCA.
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