This past Saturday, Jeff, Cooper & I volunteered with the UW-Green Bay Alumni Association for the annual food drive. Pretty easy volunteer work, hand out flyers, promote the Festival Food for Neighbors campaign and collect non-perishable items for the local pantries. They have convenient $5 and $10 bags that you can take right to the checkout and they ring it up with your groceries.
My opinion is this, when there are community resources that help those in need(like food pantries), things like the crime rate and other problems which make the quality of life in your metro area don't continue to become bigger problems. I know, pretty simple, pretty unfounded, but worthy of being stated.
This is what I can't believe about Saturday - we got so many dirty looks from people when we told them about the food-drive. And some were FLAT OUT RUDE! Perhaps I am naive, but since when is giving back to the community in ANY way a bad thing. To me, many times service does things for oneself and community that are valuable both personally and to those you are serving. It's an obvious choice to help when, where and however you can. And if more people did give back, our community would be a better place. Both "think globally and act locally" and "be the change you want to see in the world" come to mind for me.
