Short on volunteers and membership, community groups look to recruit kids

One of those groups feeling the pinch is the Lions Club.

“It’s been really tough it’s hard to recruit people because no one is going anywhere. The biggest hit we have taken is with our fundraising. Our fundraising has been way down. We usually have the stampede food booth every year. We haven’t had that for a couple of years. Hopefully we will be back this year,” president James Higgins said.

After over two years of lockdowns and restrictions spending time outside of the house volunteering is something these kids say they are keen to do.

” I do want to go help my community more. I think that being in COVID-19 we have kind of stuck to homework and we haven’t thought about what we can do,” said Paige Munsch.

“”Kids have been just stuck at home and stuff and they have not got to do stuff the past couple of years. So it is kind of nice that everyone came out and we can try out new things today,” said another girl.

The root cellar says that while lots of people have stepped up to volunteer since the opening of their new location, they have lots of opporutunities for young people to get involved, and they would love to see more kids take part.

” We have a ton of activities for kids to do at the root cellar. We are going to start making lunches in the fall so kids can help with our brown bag lunch program. We have different things in the building that people can do, stocking shelves or working in the kitchen,” said interim executive director Melissa Mullis.

All to help inspire the next generation to give back.

by Tiffany Goodwein

Short on volunteers and membership, community groups look to recruit kids

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