❝It was so satisfying and heart-warming to see the progress the children made when they felt safe and were given some education and support.❞
Meri Spurlock, 2021 YWCA Volunteer of the Year
❝It’s a volunteer position, but we need them, we desperately need them. We need a diversity of volunteers. We need them in Kingfisher and Blaine and Woodward and Grant. All the counties are needing representation.❞
Fourth Judicial District CASA Volunteer Coordinator Alyson Burrow
❝They know it’s our battle, and we can’t give up the fight. We have to find a way to keep them coming and have a collaborated effort to keep them coming.❞
— Clifford Porter, Booker T. Washington Center’s executive director
❝Hopefully, if our numbers continue to increase, we’d like to do some things like a Bingo night or expand to have a Buncko group. We get calls all the time of, ❛Is there anything I can come to.❜❞
RSVP Senior Center Director Kim Blankenship
❝I love teaching art to adults and children. I will always have a love for art and especially watercolors.❞
Tom Boepple, local artist
❝A lot of people think that Rotary is a checkbook club or a knife and fork lunch club, but to me our club is really about community and really trying to understand what is happening in our community so we can better respond to it.❞
Rotary Club President President Dan Schiedel
❝I just want to make sure that we have great leaders like yourself in the next generation that is going to take over, and you know where we’re coming from and where we’re at.❞
United Way of Northwest Oklahoma executive director and CEO Dan Schiedel
❝If we can make the community a better place — I think that's everybody's purpose. We call it paying our ❛civic rent.❜❞
Hazel Kampschroeder, Enid AM Too board member
The report, compiled from 30 recommendations from several town halls held last fall, found that adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) are linked to chronic health problems, mental illness and substance abuse issues in adulthood.
❝We really offer a lot of free community resources and just a lot of those foot-in-the-door opportunities. If I could promote and push Enid Young Professionals to that person who wants to meet someone new but doesn't know how — we are perfect for you.❞
Ali Kirtley, marketing director at PT and Enid Young Professionals board president, chair of communications and co-chair of 10<40.
❝You hear complaints about your town or school, but I try to drown that out. I'm a positive person, I would rather get involved and do something about it — actually putting my effort toward actually making the difference.❞
Businessman and volunteer Jason Turnbow
❝It’s a requirement of the school, but the mindset is to have the attitude of a servant.❞
Oklahoma Bible Academy Senior Blake Miller
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