May 21, 2021 | News and Events, Staff & Volunteer Stories
Strolling through the La Plata Farmers Market is always a fun experience. The tables are lined up with colorful fruits and vegetables, farm fresh eggs and a lot more. It’s a place to connect with your community and fill your fridge with healthy, local foods. Now, it’s...
Apr 30, 2021 | Staff & Volunteer Stories
He smelled something burning not long after he turned from Route 5 onto 488. In his rearview mirror, he saw the flames. Pulling a full trailer, less than 15 minutes from his destination, Archie Verdiglione had a problem. He pulled to the shoulder of the road and...
Feb 19, 2021 | Staff & Volunteer Stories
If anyone ever needed a reminder of how important it is to provide a hypothermia shelter for the homeless, the recent stretch of winter weather has provided it. As the temperatures plummet below freezing and some combination of snow, sleet and rain falls from the sky,...
Jan 15, 2021 | Staff & Volunteer Stories
It was January, almost exactly 8 years ago now. Cyndi Modlin and her sister-in-law had just finished dinner a La Tolteca, and as they drove home along Washington Avenue in La Plata, they saw her. A homeless woman in her early 30s, bundled against the cold, sitting...
Dec 28, 2020 | Staff & Volunteer Stories
Shavonna Butler grew up as a military kid with a father in the Navy. In that world, volunteering in the community was a part of life and one that she always found fulfilling. So years later, when she went from Navy daughter to Air Force wife, it was no surprise that...
Dec 11, 2020 | Staff & Volunteer Stories
Lisa Barrett is the type of teacher who doesn’t stop caring when the bell rings to end the day. When the pandemic arrived and the schoolbuses full of children stopped pulling into Dr. Thomas L. Higdon Elementary each morning, Barrett, a kindergarten teacher, felt...
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