Since the recession there has been a great need for help in the community. Consequently, many people have come together to help in the community. One of many of my successes is helping people in my local community. By teaching, feeding, and assisting people.

                I volunteered at the Anacortes Water Front Festival first aid stand, which was very beneficial. I helped to explain the benefits of a healthy diet. I also helped with some people that were injured and I gave them first aid supplies.

                I had also helped people that were hungry, by giving them a homemade meal, at the Revere BBQ. The last five days of every month, the Revere gets volunteers to prepare and give out food. The people that show up, are people who can’t afford food at the end of the month. I helped severe food to people, I usually served fruit and salad, and sometimes fruit salad. After everyone had been fed, we cleaned the whole restaurant.

                I also helped out at the Anacortes Arts Festival. I taught people about how to keep their cholesterol down, by giving them preventive medicine brochures and how to keep their weight at a healthy level. I taught people about how to prevent diabetes. We had a visual aid that showed how much sugar is in a can of soda pop. I encouraged people to get their sugar levels checked at the Island Hospital community blood drive.

                Since the recession started in 2005, there has been an overwhelming need for help in the community, which is why I decided to help people in my community. Now I encourage everybody to get involved in the community to some degree. As Christians we have a responsibility to be good stewards to everybody.