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Community Service , Judith Morgan, Chairperson
Community Service for March will be collecting items
for Akron Children's Hospital.
The most needed items (for infants, children and teens) are: sweat shirts, sweat pants, and pajama bottoms. They will accept
any items but please leave the "material content" label on all stuffed animals. They will also accept cash donations
to purchase items. If you would like to view the donation/wish lists please go to: https://www.akronchildrens.org/cms-wish-list/index.html
PCRTA would like to thank Darlene Fetterhoff and her daughter for helping with this project. Thank you,
Judith Morgan.
Hey! Yoo-Hoo It's Time to Turn in Your Volunteer
Hours for 2013! November-December 2013
Did you know that in Ohio, one hour of volunteer time is valued over $21 an hour!! Add up all the hours our members volunteer and it's phenomenal! We are a powerful economic force in the state!!! Every year ORTA presents a check to our legislators, letting them know about the power of the time volunteered by retired teachers all over the state. One of the reasons we are able to volunteer is because of our defined benefit pensions. We don't have to take second jobs (from younger workers who also need jobs) or worry if our investments will do well (our STRS investors do that for us) and we're retired and bright with lots of skills to share. If you didn't give your hours to Judy as we have gone through the year, take a few minutes to think about where you volunteer and estimate your hours. Check out your own worth at $21 an hour! Then send your hours in to Judy to be tallied with the rest of our members. Estimate your Nov/Dec hours or get them turned in by January 5. SEND YOUR HOURS...MAIL YOUR HOURS...PHONE YOUR HOURS...EMAIL YOUR HOURS Judy Morgan Grams4two@hotmail.com 265 Jade Boulevard 330-653-8174 Streetsboro, OH 44241 PLEEEEEEEZE! It's time! Do it today...don't wait! GED Graduation - June 16, 2013
For a number of years, PCRTA has been helping at the GED Graduation Ceremony at Maplewood by bringing cookies and serving cake and punch provided by the GED Department. This service provides the GED and ABLE staff time to spend with the new graduates and their families. This year Pat Gynn, Kathy Latimer, Georgia Darrah, and Judy Morgan (chair of the Community Services Committee) served at the refreshment table. Why not join us next year? It is always a wonderful evening to see the graduates and their proud families. We tell the students that we represent their former teachers who would have been so proud to know that they had finally made this wonderful achievement. 10-15-12 Hey!
Yoo-Ho! It's time to turn in your volunteer hours for 2012
ORTA proclaimed 2012 "The Year of the Volunteer" and asked us to keep track of our volunteer hours and send them to ORTA. They plan to make a large check to give to the Governor, the House of Representatives, and the Senate to show them the worth of Ohio's retired teachers. Did you know that in Ohio, one hour of volunteer time is valued over $21 an hour! Add up all the hours our members volunteer and it's phenomenal! We are a powerful economic force in the state!!! One of the reasons we are able to volunteer is because of our defined benefit pensions. We don't have to take second jobs (from younger workers who also need jobs) or worry if our investments will do well (STRS investors do that for us) and we're retired and bright with lots of skills to share. If you didn't write down your hours or give them to Judy as we have gone through the year, take a few minutes to think about where you volunteer and estimate your hours. If you serve a church dinner, work at the County Clothing Center, drive a neighbor to her chemo or radiation, help out in your grandchild's school listening to kids read, or whatever you do...add up your hours. Check out your own worth at $21 an hour! Then send your hours in to Judy to be tallied with the rest of our members. Estimate your Nov/Dec hours; or get them in by January 5. YOUR HOURS...MAIL YOUR HOURS...PHONE YOUR HOURS...EMAIL YOUR HOURS Judy Morgan Grams4two@hotmail.com 330-653-8174 265 Jade Boulevard 330-653-8174 Streetsboro, OH 44241 PLEEEEEEEZE! It's time! Do it today...don't wait! 10-12-11 VOLUNTEER ACTIVITIES ABOUND - JUST WAITING FOR YOU!
AARP TAX-AIDE Looking for a rewarding opportunity to make a difference in your community? AARP Foundation Tax- Aide-the nation's largest free tax preparation and assistance service-is now seeking volunteers for the 2012 tax season. You don't have to be an AARP member to volunteer, and you don't have to have any experience doing taxes. You just have to have a desire
to help others. Call Gene Berczik, the district coordinator for AARP Tax-Aide, at 330-562-4320 for more information. There
will be a week-long training program in January. AARP Tax-Aides start doing taxes February 1st. Feel like you are over-paying your taxes? Have trouble working through all the forms? Then look into AARP Foundation Tax-Aide, a free program of qualified tax aides that help senior taxpayers file their taxes. By close of business on Tax Day - Tax-Aide will have helped over 2.5 million taxpayers navigate complicated tax codes, ensure proper credits and deductions and file their returns to the IRS and state and local tax agencies. And they do it for FREE! There are Tax-Aide offices in Kent, Ravenna, Mantua, and Streetsboro. You can schedule a time by calling the Portage County United Way at 330-297-4636 or 1-800-961-0191. Our own PCRTA fellow retired teacher Mary Evelyn Shabino has worked as a Tax-Aide. If you would like more information, give her a call at 330-325-7110. ADOPT-A-SOLDIER PCRTA member Pat Mazzer recently signed up at this website: www.adoptaussoldier.org/ A soldier was assigned to her and they have had a meaningful dialogue over the past weeks. Pat says it is important to support our troops at this perilous time. She thought other retired teachers might like to do this, too. Check it out! NEOMED PROCTORS NEEDED Edith Scott who is in charge of PCRTA's NEOMED Proctoring Program is looking for more members who are willing to proctor tests for the medical and pharmacy students at NEOMED. Proctors work in groups of two or three along with some full-time NEOMED staff to help monitor the students as they take tests. Most of the tests are taken on computers, but you don't have to be computer savvy to proctor. There are NEOMED tech people on hand to assist. You will receive a proctor training session before you begin to proctor. Call Edie Scott for more information at 330-297-1812 or see her at the luncheon meeting. FIRST BOOK-PORTAGE COUNTY First Book-Portage County began distributing books to programs serving low-income children in 2005. Their goal is to distribute 12 books per child each year to children from low-income families. Last year they gave 4038 books, and this year they want to give 8,000. Since they started, they have distributed books to 1,561 children in 20 community programs. On Saturday, November 5, they will hold their third annual Bookcase Auction at McKay Bricker Gallery at 141 E. Main Street in Kent. The event is open to the public. Refreshments will be served. Bookcases decorated by local artists as well as baskets of books will be auctioned . EMPOWER PORTAGE Empower Portage will be holding a Poverty Simulation on November 4, 2011 from 10 am to 12:30 pm at the United Methodist Church of Kent. The simulation will provide a chance to role play a month in the lives of low-income families working to meet their basic needs on a limited budget over a course of four "15-minute weeks." For more information, call 330-297-7027 Ext/ 365. SALVATION ARMY TUTORS NEEDED Helena Parry is the Learning Center Director at the Salvation Army Center in Ravenna. She is looking for someone who still has that "teaching bug" to volunteer a few hours a week to help tutor students after school. If you want to know more about this need, call Helena at 330-673-0577 or 330-351-7084 or email her at helena.parry@use.Salvationarmy.org. June 9th, 2011 PCRTA Members Celebrate the GED Graduation
For several years, PCRTA members have been attending the GED Graduation at Maplewood Career Center to serve refreshments after the ceremony. Our members bake hundreds of homemade cookies; cake and punch are provided by Maplewood. Our members serve the refreshments so the people associated with the GED program have time to talk to the students and their families. At our May luncheon, PCRTA members wrote notes to the students congratulating them on their GED accomplishment. These were presented to graduates as they were waiting for the ceremony. We told them that we represent their own teachers who would have been so happy to know that they had finally finished their program and graduated. This is one of the many community service programs that PCRTA members participate in during the year. Judy Morgan is the chair of this committee and does a terrific job organizing and carrying out the various activities. She reports we sent $257 to Safer Futures along with many bags of requested items in May.
April-May 2011 GED Graduation Coming up Soon! For several years, PCRTA has been celebrating the graduation of those students in the GED program at Maplewood. This year's graduation will be on June 9. Our members bake homemade cookies, attend the graduation, and serve the cake and punch provided by Maplewood for the reception following the GED graduation ceremony. At our May luncheon meeting we will ask our members to write personal notes to the graduates telling how proud we are that they have completed their education. These are passed out to the students and have been very much appreciated by them. We will provide the cards and you provide the sentiments. Want to help make homemade cookies or serve cake and punch? Contact Judy Morgan at home at 330-653-8174 or signup at the May luncheon.
FREEDOM HOUSE: OUR MARCH 2011 SERVICE PROJECT:
Freedom House is a transitional shelter in Kent for 14 single adult males who are veterans and homeless. Opened in 2008, Freedom House provides these veterans with assistance in finding jobs and permanent housing, mental health and substance abuse counseling, involvement in community activities, and an aftercare program of follow-up and support. It is estimated that there are 154,000 homeless veterans on any given night. This represents about a fourth of the adult homeless population. Nearly half of these homeless veterans served during the Vietnam War. Most had an honorable discharge but found themselves alone and homeless though poor choices and unlucky breaks. Bring to the luncheon some of the things that are currently needed by Freedom House to help
our veterans, such as: canned fruit, pancake or waffle mix, pillow cases, plastic containers with lids (shoe box size and
smaller), and money donations to buy meat.
Dec. 2011 PCRTA Members Keep Kids Warm and Comfy
Here JoAnn Stikes and Judy Morgan, chair of the Community Service Committee, are collecting the more than 200 pairs of gloves, mittens, and caps that were donated by our generous PCRTA members. Thanks for keeping Portage County kids toasty warm! PCRTA MEMBERS VOLUNTEERED
IN PORTAGE COUNTY. DID YOU?
Retired teachers are a rich source of talent for volunteer and community service activities in our local communities throughout Portage County. Report your service hours and we will send them to ORTA. They use this information to report to legislators on the valuable work being done by retired teachers. Keep track of the volunteering you do at your church, or at a school, at a hospital, or proctoring at NEOUCOM, on environmental projects, the APL, historical societies, or libraries, plus many more things you do. Did YOU participate in any of these activities? Now think...time spent shopping for hats and mittens or toiletries is volunteer time, too. We know you aren't just sitting around your homes...what have you been doing? Report your volunteer hours to: Judy Morgan by phone at 330-653-8174 or by a note at the luncheon meeting
or send a note to 265 Jane Boulevard Streetsboro, OH 44241 or
Email us at pcrta@pcrta.hostcentric.com FUTURE EDUCATOR CONFERENCE NEEDS JUDGESOhio: Illuminate the heart and mind.
Teach! This is the theme for the 2010 Future Educators' Ohio annual state conference to be held at Kent State
University on Friday, April 23. NEW PROCTOR
ORIENTATION FOR NEOUCOM PROCTORS Wednesday,
March 10 Olson Hall at NEOUCOM/P Campus (Please Use Main Entrance) Call
Edith Scott to sign up at 330-297-1812
MAKE A DIFFERENCE DAY!
Judy Morgan, Terrie Sargi, Dave Gynn, Adele Fussner, and Pat Gynn were some of our members
who collected heaping carts of food for the county food banks on Make-a-Difference Day in October at Kent Acme. GET A DISNEY DAY!
COMMUNITY SERVICE VOLUNTEERS NEEDED TO ASSIST IN RED CROSS DRIVES Members are needed to assist in the Red Cross blood drive at St. Joan of Arc Catholic Church in Streetsboro. Volunteers help by serving snacks to blood donors, and keeping an eye on them while they recover from their donation, and making sure they are strong enough to leave the site. Please contact Judith Morgan, Community Service Chair, at 330-653-8174 if you can help. Judy is a new member of PCRTA who has jumped right in and taken an active role in leadership. Why not ask her if you can help her? RETIRED TEACHERS AT WORK VOLUNTEERING IN THE COUNTY PCRTA Members donated cookies and helped serve cake, cookies, and punch at the Maplewood Career Center for the GED Graduation ceremony on June 11, 2009. Thanks to these ladies who made cookies and/or helped serve: Connie Evans, Jan Fencl, Darlene Fetterhoff, Adele Fussner, Pat Gynn, Rosemary Hostler, Judy Morgan, Evelyn Park, Edith Scott, Ann Spence, Saroj Sutaria, and Ruth Wiegand. As teachers, it is always wonderful to see students of all ages finally graduating and to share in their success and their happiness.
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