120 HOURS OF COMMUNITY SERVICE
FOR LUCY'S BIRTHDAY!
  Final Total is 1028 1/2 Hours!!!!

We did this last year and it was a huge success!  It generated heaps of good feelings for Lucy, for the people we helped and for ourselves.  Reaching out a helping hand to our family, friends, community and the world gets those "feel good" hormones flowing.  And we sure had a flood of them last year.  So let's see what we can do this year!

For anyone who wants to participate, send me an email (subject 120 Hours) with your name, state, country, service you did, date in March (from March 1 - 31, 2013) of the service and number of hours you put in.  I’ll keep a running tally at the top of this website as well as a page listing the emails with your info and we’ll see if we can hit our own 120 hours of community service by her birthday.  It can be helping the environment, neighbors, kids, elderly, animals, park cleanup, AIDS projects, food pantry, school volunteer, animal shelter, anti-bullying project -- anything at all that helps the people in your family, neighborhood, town, city, etc.  Each person does however many hours they can this month and we total all our hours up together to see if we can hit 120.  Here's a link to last year's "Hours" if you want some hints of what to do.  You folks are always so inventive.  I can't wait to see what you come up with.  What do you think?  Are you in?
(Here's an example: Sharon -- California, USA -- I volunteered at the Burbank Animal Shelter -- March 3 -- 2 hours)


120 HOURS PROJECT CONTRIBUTORS

Heather Spurlin -- Iowa, USA -- Took care of 3 litters of 2 week, 4 week, & 6 week old, yellow, black, & chocolate Lab puppies 24 in
all for about 8 hours while the breeder took the Dad of one of the litters for his Cancer & Diabetes check up. -- March 3 -- 8 hours

Melanie Belzais -- France -- This year I'll fix a refuge for the animaux for have a better environment. -- March 15 & 17 -- 16 hours

Tonya -- Texas,USA -- I volunteered driving two elderly women to a late showing. -- March 8 -- 4 hours

Dr. Patty Saunders -- NY, USA -- I will be running a 10 week two-hour beginners AWARENESS group using Mary Rocamora's
workbook for free -- March 1, 8, 15, 22, 29 -- 20 hours

Andrea -- CO, USA -- Helped a senior move over the weekend -- March 8 & 9 -- 10 hours

Tonya -- Texas, USA -- I volunteered helping my dad rebuild a floor for a neighbor  -- March 10 & 11 -- 16 1/2 hrs

Kaz Pirotta -- Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia -- I've been visiting and reading and talking to the senior citizens this month,
they have so many cool stories to tell -- 15 hours

Michelle -- Essex, UK -- I will volunteer at Brownies and Scouts every week -- 4 hours

Jackie Larson -- IN, USA -- I spent time in my local animal shelter caring for the animals placed in their care -- March 10 & 11 -- 10 hours

Tonya -- Texas, USA -- I volunteered with my dad to help fix a friends sink, toilet and take down a tree. -- March 12 -- 3 hours

Sunisha Ramlogan -- Trinidad and Tobago, West Indies -- I volunteered my time helping out in primary school -- March 10 -- 2 hours

Virginia and Lourdes -- CA, USA -- We danced 2 numbers at the Senior Center in San Diego to help with their fundraising -- March 15 -- 2 hours

Veronika -- The Czech Republic -- recycling plastics -- 2 hours

Tonya -- Texas, USA -- I volunteered to help my dad clear trees for lumber. -- March 14 -- 5 1/2  hours


Melanie -- Germany -- I volunteered at Jena and Zwickau at kids projects and cleaning up woods -- March 5 - March 9 -- 16 hours

Tonya -- Texas, USA -- I volunteered to help my dad remodel a bathroom. -- March 19 - 22 -- 36 hours

Barbara Bruno -- Italy -- I will be participating in Earth Hour -- March 29 -- 1 hour

Shery -- TX, USA -- I planted a tree in the park. Collected a month's worth of recyclables from seniors of a couple
Sunday School classes who I convinced to set aside for me to pick up and drop off.  Donated food and toys for the local animal
rescue adoption agency.  Transplanted two crepe myrtles to a better spot and worked getting flower beds in working order.   
Read during Story Corner to pre-k kids at sister's school. -- 11 hours

Nadia Raymond -- France -- School volunteer helped children with disabilities -- March 10 - 14, 17 - 21, 24 - 28 -- 30 hours

Florian Robert -- Rhône, France -- I spent and am still spending an average of 2 hours a day throughout March in a cancer centre taking
the illness off the minds of more or less old children (5 to 52 years old), playing, talking, being silly, dressing up, playing pranks on nurses
and doctors and many more productive activities -- March 1st up until the 31st -- 62 hours

Lara Vezzani -- I fed the birds at Biltmore park, then entertained seniors by reading my book living there. -- 4 hours

Melanie -- Germany -- baked voluntary 5 cakes and sold them at university, all for Starship -- March 24 & 25 -- 13 Hours

Jey -- Colorado, USA -- I volunteer as a counselor to victims of sexual assault and physical abuse.
Over the course of March, I have spent approximately 17 hours with these strong individuals.

Nayara Maria -- Brazil -- I gave tutoring for the son of a neighbor for a week -- March 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25 -- 28 hours

Sharon -- CA, USA -- read to kids in library and drove neighbor to senior center for 2 weeks while her daughter was on vacation -- 9 hours

Andrei Furmanskiy -- Kiev, Ukraine -- In honor of Lucy’s birthday I will participate in Earth Hour
(and I made a donation to the Ukrainian Red Cross) -- March 29 -- 1 hour

Kayla -- Montana, USA -- I helped a friend pick up trash around her home and move furniture around -- March 16 -- 2hours

Corinne Pasquier -- Switzerland -- Take care of the cats of the neighbour during her holidays -- March 27, 28, 29, 30, 31 -- 3 hours


Bernadett -- Guildford, United Kingdom -- I volunteered to help old people as a care assistant -- 46 hours

Jan Longhorn -- Missouri, USA -- I cleared my closets of clothes that I no longer wear, but are in very good condition,
laundered and donated them to a nursing home for the residents who may be in need of clothing, but are financially
unable to buy new clothes. -- March 22 - 23 -- 8 hours

Joyce Mitchell -- OR, USA -- Earth Hour -- March 29 -- 1 hour

Rose -- Maine, USA -- Earth Hour -- March 29 -- 1 hour

Bobbie -- CA, USA -- Driving seniors to doctor appointments -- March 11, 13, 24 -- 4 hours

Claudia Stamey -- NC, USA -- I have been tutoring a 3rd grader that has problems with reading comprehension.  She is
afraid she will not pass the end of grade test.  We have worked on it an hour at a time, three days a week.  We have put in 12 hours
this month.  She is finally getting the hang of it.  I have also spent about 8 hours with a volunteer group that cleans the local dog
park every weekend. -- 20 hours

Janell -- Garland, TX -- Picked up donuts, staffed the Donut Table at my church (First Unitarian Dallas) -- 4 hours

Janell -- Garland, TX -- Participated in my church's Creative Community Art sale as Chief and Only Cashier Extraordinaire
and also as Lampworked Glass Vendor specializing in Memorial Beads with Cremains from loved ones encased in glass. -- 10 hours

Marion Schrader -- Brandenburg, Germany -- I help our old neighbour who broke one foot and hurt the others -- since March 4 until
today March 31 and it will go on longer -- 16 hours

Denise -- PA, USA -- Shoveling snow for a widowed woman whose car was buried in a lot of snow in Boswell, PA -- March 1 -- 3 hours

Denise -- PA, USA -- Helping to clean out a storage area at The Patriot – nursing home in Somerset, PA -- March 2 -- 2 hours

Denise -- PA, USA -- Working a crisis hotline Somerset, PA -- March 3 -- 4 hours

Denise -- PA, USA -- Tying together quilts for a family whose home burned, losing everything Somerset, PA -- March 4 -- 3 hours

Denise -- PA, USA -- Putting together 93 hygiene kits being mailed to Africa from a church in Somerset, PA -- March 5 -- 3 hours

Denise -- PA, USA -- Helping put together a video of WWII veterans  (their stories highs and lows) with newspaper articles
for their families -- March 6 -- 2 hours

Denise -- PA, USA -- Shoveling snow again for the widowed woman whose car was again buried in snow Boswell, PA -- March 7 -- 2 hours

Denise -- PA, USA -- Cleaning stalls at the Somerset humane society -- March 8 -- 4 hours

Denise -- PA, USA -- Telling bible stories and singing hymns at The Patriot nursing home in Somerset, PA -- March 9 -- 2 hours

Denise -- PA, USA -- Holding hands and reading stories to a patient in Hospice House who has no family Somerset, PA -- March 10 -- 2 hours

Denise -- PA, USA -- Getting a hotel room for a homeless veteran and his dog, plus dinner and supplies for the dog to include
a winter coat for the dog -- March 11 -- 1 hour

Denise -- PA, USA -- Cleaning out an attic for an elderly man who was moving into a personal care home Somerset, PA -- March 12 -- 2 hours

Denise -- PA, USA -- Taking items to the Salvation army from his attic Somerset, PA -- March 13 -- 1 hour

Denise -- PA, USA -- Assembling 24 brown bag lunches for the women’s shelter in Johnstown, PA -- March 14 -- 3 hours

Denise -- PA, USA -- Donating blood at the local Red Cross Somerset, PA -- March 15 -- 1 hour

Denise -- PA, USA -- Putting on a puppet show for the children’s ward Good Samaritan Hospital Johnstown, PA -- March 16 -- 2 hours

Denise -- PA, USA -- Shoveling snow for neighbors after another round of the Nor’easter from Canada Boswell, PA -- March 17 -- 3 hours

Denise -- PA, USA -- Organizing photos and newspaper articles for a lady in The Patriot nursing home from her days
as a girl in Poland -- March 18 -- 2 hours

Denise -- PA, USA -- Helping a family clean the barn for a new set of baby pigs to be born Berlin, PA -- March 19 -- 3 hours

Denise -- PA, USA -- Inputting data for the family indexing program on the internet Boswell, PA -- March 20 -- 3 hours

Denise -- PA, USA -- Inputting data for the family indexing program on the internet Boswell, PA -- March 21 -- 3 hours

Denise -- PA, USA -- Park clean up from bad storms Somerset, PA -- March 22 -- 8 hours

Denise -- PA, USA -- Bible telling and singing hymns at The Patriot nursing home Somerset, PA -- March 23 -- 2 hours

Denise -- PA, USA -- Family indexing on the internet Somerset, PA -- March 24 -- 2 hours

Denise -- PA, USA -- Popcorn and a movie at the children’s aid home Somerset, PA -- March 25 -- 3 hours

Denise -- PA, USA -- Working the crisis hotline Somerset, PA -- March 26 -- 4 hours

Denise -- PA, USA -- Assisting blood donors at a local blood drive at a church Somerset, PA -- March 27 -- 3 hours

Denise -- PA, USA -- Family indexing on the internet Somerset, PA -- March 28 -- 2 hours

Denise -- PA, USA -- Walking dogs humane society Somerset, PA -- March 29 -- 4 hours

Denise -- PA, USA -- Playing the piano and singing with a small group of very young girls Somerset, PA -- March 30 -- 1 hour

Sandra -- Brandenburg, Germany -- I went grocery shopping for my grandma and helped her clean the house -- March 29 -- 4 hours

Sylvie S -- Quebec, Canada -- Zootherapy with my two dogs at a hospital for elderly people every Sunday afternoon for two hours -- 8 hours

Sue Fritz -- Arizona, USA -- Final Salute for Veteran's -- March 3, 17, 22, 26 -- 18 hours

Sue Fritz -- Arizona, USA -- Animal Rescue -- March 2 -- 8 hours

Sue Fritz -- Arizona, USA -- Restoration of Forrest Land -- March 9, 12, 13 -- 22 hours

Rita Harvey -- Making afghans and donating them to nursing homes.  I helped my neighbors. 
I helped my grandkids with the drug free donations for school and save box tops for the schools. 
I donated blood and I spent time with family and friends -- March -- 80 hours

Cindy Edmonds -- CA, USA -- Caring for my cousin's sick pooch, nursing her back to health, going to the vet once a week,
giving her medication every day and just cuddling her.  She is so much better after such a long period and I can't be more appreciative
of the vet helping us.  She is almost fully recovered. -- March - 225 hours

Diana -- Michigan, USA -- I volunteered at a local school -- March 24 & 25 -- 6 hours.