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...
Nov 13, 2020 | Staff & Volunteer Stories
Before the day’s volunteer work began, the group gathered for a prayer. A short safety rundown came next, and then Anthony Anderson stepped up to speak. He had something to say to all. More importantly, he had a question to ask of one. Anthony knelt down in front of...
Oct 23, 2020 | Staff & Volunteer Stories
The receptionist had gone on vacation. So Corae Young was assigned to LifeStyles of Maryland as a temp tasked with filling the void for one week. On the Friday that was to be Young’s last day, Executive Director Sandy Washington approached her and asked if she’d...
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