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NEW MEXICO

(Carlsbad) Current-Argus. 50 volunteers collected almost 1,200 non-perishable food items for an American Red Cross food pantry.

Santa Fe New Mexican. The youth group from Our Lady of Guadalupe held a dinner and dance where they collected more than 200 pounds of blankets, clothing and housewares for a shelter, and raised more than $2,000 to buy car seats, strollers and other baby items for children in foster care.

NEW YORK

(Binghamton) Press & Sun-Bulletin. The Chenango Bridge Elementary School held a computer drop-off day and received 13 complete systems for student use from community donations.

(Dunkirk) Observer. 10 student groups at Forestville Central School held a bake sale and coat drive, raked lawns and delivered food to a pantry.

(Elmira) Star-Gazette. 30 women sewed afghans, baby quilts, pajamas and drawstring bags for local charities.

(Glens Falls) Post-Star. 150 students from Kensington Road Elementary School raised more than $3,500 during a reading drive for the Heifer Project International, an organization that buys animals for impoverished farmers and families.

Ithaca Journal. 150 students, parents and teachers from Lansing Middle School beautified a hospice center by planting 1,200 daffodils and 1,400 crocuses.

(Jamestown) Post-Journal. Pupils at Bemus Point Elementary School collected loose change and did odd jobs to raise $1,100 to buy toiletries for an organization that helps financially strapped families.

(Kingston) Daily Freeman. The local chapter of the American Heart Association held a "Save-a-Life Saturday" to teach CPR and first aid.

(New York) Daily News. Alumni from the Children's Village, a residential treatment center for troubled boys, kicked off its "Keep It Real" workshops to provide guidance and inspiration.

(Niagara Falls) Niagara Gazette. 35 members of Niagara Falls High School's Class of 1999 visited two senior centers to make crafts and socialize.

(Nyack) Rockland Journal-News. Volunteers collected 50 pairs of crutches for the Jawonio's Grace Nightingale Lending Library, which will send them to victims of land mines and civil war in Angola and Bosnia.

(Oswego) Palladium-Times. Going door to door, Boy Scout troops 888 and 809 collected 2,200 pounds of food for a pantry.

Port Chester Daily Item. Junior Girl Scout Troop 2196 of Rye collected 50 blankets and 11 gallons of bottled water for hurricane victims in Mexico.

Poughkeepsie Journal. Students and faculty at Millerton Elementary School collected 850 books and distributed them to six charities.

(Rochester) Democrat and Chronicle. 300 employees at UNISYS Corp.'s Farmington facility collected clothing and food for eight needy families in upstate New York.

Tarrytown Daily News. The Irvington Education Foundation held a fund-raiser -- with a live auction, a raffle, and jazz and drama performances -- raising $27,000 for school programs in danger of being eliminated.

(Troy) Record. Turnpike Elementary School took 32 economically disadvantaged students shopping for clothes.

(Utica) Observer-Dispatch. Cherilyn Schmalz, a mother of three, collected coloring books, crayons, clothes, shoes, toiletries and food for charity.

Watertown Daily Times. 50 walkers raised $1,800 in a walk-a-thon to benefit the Akwesasne Freedom School (pre-K through 8) of the Mohawk Nation, dedicated to preserving Native American culture.

(White Plains) Reporter Dispatch. 300 students from White Plains Middle School/Highland Campus collected 900 food items for a shelter.

NORTH CAROLINA

(Asheboro) Courier-Tribune. The Randolph County Extension Homemakers delivered 30 hand-knit afghans to veterans in long-term-care facilities.

(Asheville) Citizen-Times. 25 volunteers from St. Paul's United Methodist Church built a $500 ramp for an elderly blind woman who previously had to scale a small flight of stairs into her back yard to take out the garbage.

(Burlington) Times-News. 45 employees of Glen Raven Mills landscaped, repaired a driveway and painted rooms at the Hospice Home in Alamance.

(Durham) Herald-Sun. Donnie Royster cooked up 700 hot meals of fried chicken and gravy, hamburgers, fish fillets and chicken patties for the homeless and elderly, all day.

(Elizabeth City) Daily Advance. Eight students and five adults pulled weeds and planted flowers at Moyock Elementary School.

Gaston Gazette. 400 students pledged to clean streets, visit nursing homes, do chores for the elderly, etc.

Goldsboro News-Argus. Helen Harwood collected, cleaned and delivered 1,200 dolls and stuffed animals to nursing homes and a battered women's shelter.

Hickory Daily Record. 13-year-old Aubyn Burnside rallied 200 people to collect more than 1,000 suitcases, cosmetic bags, beach bags, train cases and garment bags for foster children in the inaugural effort of the local chapter of "Suitcases for Kids," which now has chapters in 19 states.

High Point Enterprise. The Elks Lodge made 200 gift boxes containing socks and toiletries for hospitalized veterans in Salisbury.

(Jacksonville) Daily News. 280 students from St. Francis of Assisi Catholic School collected jeans to donate to a shelter, and served spaghetti dinners to the needy.

(Kannapolis) Independent Tribune. The Rimer 4-H Club visited the homes of elderly people and needy families to check smoke detectors, replace batteries or install new detectors.

(Kinston) Free Press. The Lenoir County AIDS Task Force raised $1,000 to buy furniture, TVs, radios, microwaves, dishes, towels, blankets, pillows and rugs for four people suffering from AIDS, delivering the items on Make A Difference Day.

(Lumberton) Robesonian. 23 Fairmont High School students threw a party for 60 elementary school pupils they tutor.

(Monroe) Enquirer-Journal. The Waxhaw Busy Bear 4-H Club collected toys for the Union County Department of Social Services, which delivered them to needy families at Christmastime.

(Morganton) News Herald. Susan Watson, 16, and family renovated a neighborhood park, replacing rotted wood on seesaws and picnic tables, and repairing rusted swings.

Mount Airy News. Volunteers from the Salem Baptist Church in Dobson collected food, clothing and firewood for the Appalachian community of Salt Rock, W.Va.

(New Bern) Sun Journal. 45 residents of Bridgeton -- nearly 10 percent of its population -- took part in a community-wide cleanup.

Rocky Mount Telegram. Members of the Future Homemakers of America at Northern Nash High School made "survival kits" for women and children at a domestic violence shelter. Kits included tissues, a nail file and bandages.

Salisbury Post. Jean and Monroe Poplin organized the second annual Matt Speight golf tournament, in honor of their son who died of AIDS after contracting the disease through a blood transfusion. The event raised more than $12,600 for the Hemophilia Fund of North Carolina.

Shelby Star. The Disabled American Veterans Auxiliary visited a small hospital and planted flowers with patients. Afterward, they served ice cream and cookies.

Statesville Record & Landmark. The local Altrusa Club organized a "Make A Difference -- Stop Violence" march through downtown Statesville to highlight the problem of domestic violence. The group also organized "Without Violence" student forums at four high schools.

Wilson Daily Times. 30 students and faculty from Margaret Hearne School collected toiletries for the local American Red Cross.

NORTH DAKOTA

Grand Forks Herald. The Greater Grand Forks Youth Committee created and delivered 10,000 copies of the "Youth Yellow Pages," a directory containing community contacts and emergency hot lines, in the wake of last spring's floods that devastated the city.

(Wahpeton) Daily News. More than 350 students from St. John's Parish held a food drive, cleaned their church and schoolyards, visited hospital patients, baked cookies for nursing home residents and delivered pumpkins to mentally challenged residents living in a group home.

OHIO

(Ashtabula) Star-Beacon. Members of Andover Methodist Church made 36 bed pockets -- convenient carriers for books, magazines and so on that attach to beds -- for nursing home residents, and held a bake sale.

(Athens) Sunday Messenger. The Zaleski Super Kids 4-H Club organized the Health & Safety Kidfest, where 200 families received information on health, fire safety, child abuse, and adolescent drinking and drug use.

(Bucyrus) Telegraph-Forum. 15 volunteers planted trees, shrubs and perennials as part of an outdoor lab at Kilbourne Elementary School.

(Canton) Repository. The North Canton Newcomers Club hosted a Halloween party for St. Luke Lutheran Nursing Home residents.

Chillicothe Gazette. Zane Trace Junior High Choir members raked leaves, cleaned windows and did odd jobs at a home for senior citizens.

Cincinnati Enquirer. 2,000 LensCrafter associates from across Ohio and the nation helped an estimated 12,000 people by providing more than 8,500 eyeglass adjustments and repairs at nursing homes and homeless shelters; performing some 3,300 vision screenings at schools and health fairs; recycling and repairing more than 17,700 used glasses for the needy; and collecting 10,000 more to recycle.

Columbus Dispatch. Delaware County 4-H Club members raised $450 at a bake sale for the family of a 3-year-old girl who had undergone a bone marrow transplant.

Coshocton Tribune. A group of women from the VFW Auxiliary Post No. 2040 visited a hospitalized veteran in long-term care, took him shopping, and visited the VFW to meet other veterans.

(Defiance) Crescent-News. 35 volunteers collected toiletries, canned goods, blankets and towels for a homeless shelter.

(Dover/New Philadelphia) Times Reporter. 25 volunteers collected toiletries for 1,000 health kits to donate to an international aid agency.

(Findlay) Courier. 10 volunteers organized a charity ball with the help of 25 corporate sponsors to raise $25,000 for the Caughman Health Clinic, which provides health care to anyone, regardless of ability to pay.

(Fremont) News-Messenger. 330 students at St. Joseph Elementary School donated 150 pounds of school supplies to an elementary school in Guatemala.

Ironton Tribune. 27 volunteers from the Ironton Catholic Community Youth Ministry painted and carpeted an old train caboose, transforming it into a drop-off site for food and clothing donations.

(Kent/Ravenna) Record-Courier. 100 community volunteers joined in a cleanup in Garrettsville, raking leaves, picking up garbage and sweeping sidewalks. Local students donated clothes and toys to charity.

Lima News. 50 employees from the Ford Engineer Plant and friends converted a storage room at a center for troubled youth into a study room. They also painted the home of an elderly woman and did odd jobs for another.

(Lisbon) Morning Journal. Volunteers with Quota International of Salem, Ohio, Inc., donated truckloads of furniture, cooking items, baby goods, groceries and toiletries to a shelter for abused women and children. The group also bought new blinds to ensure privacy.

(Lorain) Morning Journal. 20 volunteers renovated the playground at the South Street Elementary School.

(Mansfield) News Journal. 50 volunteers helped beautify the grounds at Carpenter Elementary School, planting 200 spring bulbs, three trees and other perennials.

Marietta Times. 20 members of the Marietta Y's Men's Club collected 175 pounds of food for a local pantry and more than 600 pounds of clothing for a needy community in South Carolina.

(Marion) Star. Employees from the Morrow County Health Department and the Whetstone School collected 103 adult coats and 70 children's coats for charities.

(Martins Ferry) Times Leader. Cub Scouts in St. Clairsville donated pet food, supplies -- and their time -- at an animal shelter.

(Newark) Advocate. A crew of 25 from the city of Heath's "Celebrate Heath!" volunteer corps collected 4,000 pounds of food for a pantry, enabling an additional 3,000 meals.

(Port Clinton) News Herald. 25 members of the Mentor High School Key Club spent the day with 10 kids from the Big Brothers & Big Sisters program -- playing miniature golf and treating them to ice cream.

Portsmouth Daily Times. 100 volunteers, including U.S. Rep. Ted Strickland, cleaned up neighborhoods around Lincoln Literacy Elementary School.

Sandusky Register. 100 volunteers with Friends of the Environment helped beautify the wastewater treatment center in Bellevue; weeded flower beds and trimmed bushes; cleaned up litter; blazed a walking trail; and started building a wildlife viewing station.

(Steubenville) Herald-Star. 15 members of "KICK IT" (Kids in Christ's Kingdom Involved Together) collected donations and baby supplies for a home for teenage mothers.

(Warren) Tribune Chronicle. Students and teachers at Washington Elementary School in Niles prepared bags of cleaning supplies and toiletries and gave them to 400 needy families and to a shelter for abused women and children.

(Willoughby/Lake County) News-Herald. Aerobics studio owner Donna Piscopo organized a two-hour aerobics marathon with 34 participants, raising more than $5,800 -- more than double last year's effort.

(Wooster) Daily Record. 25 non-profit agencies joined volunteers from Networking in Prevention and the Wooster Kiwanis Club at an Indoor Street Fair to raise funds for charities and awareness about health and safety services; 2,000 attended.

(Zanesville) Times Recorder. 75 volunteers collected food, clothes, toys and toiletries for the Salvation Army. Three truckloads of items were delivered, including donations of new furniture.

OKLAHOMA

Enid News & Eagle. The National Junior Honor Society of Waller Junior High collected more than 1,750 toothbrushes and tubes of toothpaste for the local YWCA Crisis Center.

(Lawton) Sunday Constitution. Students in MacArthur Junior High School's Pro-Team class collected $1,020 in donations at gas stations for a battered women's shelter.

McAlister News-Capital & Democrat. The Kiowa High student council sponsored a picture scramble and raised more than $500 for a Christmas party for seniors in the community.

Muskogee Daily Phoenix and Times-Democrat. 43 employees of the Veterans Affairs Medical Center and the Tulsa Outpatient Clinic provided free health screening, flu shots and vaccines for tetanus/diphtheria and pneumonia to 82 homeless veterans.

Norman Transcript. More than 250 volunteers from the Maguire Community in Slaughterville held a Halloween party for mentally disabled adults, delivered food to senior citizens living alone and raised more than $350 through a car wash and bake sale to buy Christmas gifts for the two groups.

Tulsa World. Boy Scouts of Explorer Post No. 342 painted a mural over gang graffiti in one of the city's poorest neighborhoods. The event was such a success, the Scouts were authorized by the city to paint an anti-violence slogan on a city bus.

OREGON

(Coos Bay) World. Judy Gederos, owner of Judy's New Image hair salon in Coquille, rallied eight other salons to donate proceeds from that day's business to benefit a local women's crisis center. Patrons also were encouraged to donate clothing, toothbrushes and other toiletries to the center.

Salem Statesman Journal. Seniors collected and donated more than 1,000 books for the Keizer Library, a fledgling institution currently housed in city hall.

PENNSYLVANIA

Altoona Mirror. 70 volunteers from St. Michael's Roman Catholic Church and nine businesses in Hollidaysburg made improvements to a rescue mission and emergency shelter.

Beaver County Times. Youth from St. John's Orthodox Church in Ambridge collected "a station wagon full" of cleaning and paper products for an AIDS services organization.

(Bloomsburg) Press-Enterprise. 30 student members of Central Silver Screen, a community service club at Central Columbia High School, held a yard sale and raised $900 to buy new computers for the school's learning-disabled program.

Bradford Era. Brownie Troop No. 9 in Bradford collected pet food, treats, towels and blankets for an animal shelter, and bathed and walked the dogs there.

Butler Eagle. Students from Butler Junior High School decorated pumpkins for a nursing home.

(Carlisle) Sentinel Sunday. 19 fourth-graders from Falling Spring Elementary raised $770 at bake sale for a boy with a rare disease.

Delaware County Sunday Times. 32 people -- ages 8 to 80 -- joined the Ridley Park Greens, a volunteer group that maintains area parks and public buildings, and helped plant 400 tulips, 250 daffodils, 36 lily plants and 35 shrubs to beautify a stretch of highway leading into the town of Ridley Park.

(Easton) Express-Times. 500 Palisades High School students collected and donated 747 pounds of canned goods to a food pantry and 2,056 pounds of clothing to a domestic violence shelter.

(Greensburg) Sunday Tribune-Review. 11 girls from the Cadette Girl Scout Troop No. 84 made more than 100 "travel totes" of toiletries and donated them to a domestic and sexual violence center.

(Hanover) Evening Sun. Volunteers from four churches held a soup and sandwich sale and raised $1,000 for the upkeep of Hershaull Park, an 11-acre wooded picnic ground used for social and religious events.

(Hazleton) Standard-Speaker. 75 students from North Schuylkill Interact visited a hospital and nursing home, playing instruments and singing to cheer residents.

Indiana Gazette. More than 100 community volunteers, from first-graders to grandparents, held a "Haunted Walk" in Avonmore and raised $1,000 to renovate outdoor recreation facilities.

(Lansdale) Reporter. 400 families from Knapp Elementary School in Lansdale hosted a clothing drive, and a yard/bake sale that raised $300 for the school's computer lab and $300 to buy dinners for the needy.

(Lebanon) Daily News. 80 Palmyra High School students recorded children's books on tape for young patients at a hospital, cleaned rooms at the Ronald McDonald House in Hershey, cleaned a stretch of highway and a polluted waterway, and visited a nursing home.

(McKeesport) Daily News. Volunteers from the McKeesport Central Catholic School made baby quilts, prepared donated clothing to be sent to a Catholic mission in South Carolina, and visited two local nursing homes.

Meadville Tribune. 1,300 volunteers worked on some 100 construction projects, building wheelchair ramps, porches, repairing roofs, and installing windows and drywall for the poor, elderly and disabled.

New Castle News. Using $850 in donations, the New Castle Junior Woman's Club made and donated 60 fleece jackets for homeless kids in Lawrence County, along with toothbrushes and toothpaste, gloves, candy treats and Domino's Pizza gift certificates.

(Norristown) Times Herald. Constance Lee-Compton prepared 243 plastic buckets full of arts and crafts supplies for kids at seven shelters in Philadelphia.

(Phoenixville) Phoenix. 50 volunteers from the Kimberton Lions, Soroptimist and Pilot Club swept driveways and sidewalks in exchange for used eyeglasses, held a shower to collect cleaning supplies for a shelter, and bought a safety gate for a day-care center for single moms.

(Pottstown, Pa.) Mercury. 180 Pottstown Senior High students, along with 70 volunteers, cleaned streets, school grounds and parks, repaired playgrounds, helped at the library and did odd jobs for elderly and disabled residents.

Pottsville Republican. Brownie Troop No. 195 "adopted" two homebound elderly women with no living relatives to write to and visit.

(Sharon) Herald. 125 people joined the Hermitage Service Unit of Penn Lakes Girl Scouts and prepared 100 kits complete with stuffed animals, handmade dolls and toiletries for women and children living in a safe house.

(Somerset) Daily American. The Knights of Columbus in Hollsapple collected 800 pounds of non-perishable food for a pantry.

(Tarantum) Valley News Dispatch. 72 volunteers from Arnold and New Kensington cleaned up litter and weeds along a 15-block stretch of railroad track between the two towns.

Warren Times-Observer. Mary Zaffino organized a kids' health fair where authorities fingerprinted children, police conducted a bike safety demonstration, and preschool educators conducted developmental testing on children 3-5.

(Warrendale) North Hills News Record. 1,000 volunteers from Project Bundle-Up took 1,000 kids from low-income families shopping for winter coats, boots, hats and mittens.

(Washington) Observer-Reporter. 80 children and 10 adults from Donora Elementary Center planted bulbs, flowers and bushes, and picked up litter around the school.

(West Chester) Daily Local News. The Friars' Society, an all-male service group at West Chester University, installed insulation, fixed floors and replaced drywall and plumbing fixtures at a battered women's shelter.

(Wilkes-Barre) Sunday Voice. Wilkes University students worked on two houses for Habitat for Humanity, packed 200 food orders for a co-op that works with the poor, elderly and disabled; and prepared care packages for a women's shelter.