Athens County Made a Difference with a Fall Festival! Athens County AppalCORPS members at their MLK, JR. service project Scioto County AppalCORPS members Meagan Rhea, Charity Nagel, and Brenda Thompson with Site Supervisor Dr. Dave Todt, accept the $500 donation from USEC Plant Director, Dave Rogers Amesville Elementary Landscaping Project | The first set of AppalCORPS service projects took place on "Make a Difference Day Ohio," October 28, 2006. Make a Difference Day Ohio is the most encompassing national day of helping others -- a celebration of neighbors helping neighbors. Created by USA WEEKEND Magazine, Make a Difference Day is an annual event that takes place on the fourth Saturday of every October. For the past six years, Ohio has led the nation in projects implemented!! Last year, the Athens AppalCORPS members were in the top 40 out of 961 projects in 79 counties throughout Ohio. This year, the AppalCORPS members promoted literacy throughout their counties. Each site collected and donated books to children in Athens, Monroe, Belmont, and Scioto Counties. Read below to find out how each site contributed to Make a Difference Day! Athens County -
The Athens tutors partnered with the Athens County Children Services and planned a four hour Fall Festival event for children in foster care. They called upon America Reads, another literacy program, to help with the event. The day consisted of reading, activities, games, food, and prizes. Each child that attended the event received a bag full of school supplies: rulers, pencils, erasers, stickers, crayons, markers, etc. The tutors also collected over 400 books to give away at the event. Each child went home with plenty of books to call their own! -
The Athens tutors would like to thank all of the people and organizations that helped make this event successful. Without the donations of these wonderful people, this event would not have been possible. Thank you to the following: Kroger, White's Mill, Hungry Howie's, Athena Grand, ReUse, ATCO, Wendy's, Appalachia Reads, America Reads, Red Brick, Dorothy Leal, Lisa Barrett, Sharon Reynolds, Tammy Carsey, Sandy Shonborn, Barb Sims, Paula Linscott, David Bower, Family Healthcare and Athens County WIC, and the Athens County Children Services. Monroe/Belmont Counties -
The tutors in Monroe and Belmont ran a huge campaign to collect books for children in foster care and Children Services in their counties. They collected books and monetary donations at four different local football games on October 13, 2006. The money that was collected was used to purchase new books. Each person that contributed books/money received a goodie bag in return. -
The tutors were very successful in collecting books due to the fact that they advertised their project at the local schools and in the local newspapers. They had over 150 people donate! On Make a Difference Day, the tutors distributed 540 books to Monroe County Department of Job and Family Services and the Belmont Head Start program. Scioto County |
