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Issue Date: April 15, 2007
Encore award: Continued excellence by national honorees
Three years after receiving national recognition for their Make A Difference Day good deeds, the residents of Trumbull County in northeastern Ohio continue to help others. On Oct. 28, 1,000 volunteers tackled 80 projects. For that sustained giving, Trumbull County has been named this year's Encore Honoree. "There's a lot of economic uncertainty here, yet people still came together and were very giving," says Sue Shafer of the Tribune Chronicle, who coordinates Make A Difference Day for the paper. A food drive run by the paper netted 6,831 pounds of food. A high school clothing drive tallied 900 bags of clothes for families in Appalachia, while a collection for two county shelters filled the newspaper's 24-foot box truck. With Make A Difference Day now an institution here, the county's plans for this October already are underway. Those plans will be fueled by a $10,000 donation from the Gannett Foundation and USA WEEKEND that will benefit Trumbull 100, a community charity. Photo by Abigail Fisher |
Make A Difference Day, the largest national day of helping others, is sponsored by USA WEEKEND Magazine and its 600 carrier newspapers. Make A Difference Day is held in partnership with Points of Light & Hands On Network and is supported by the Newman's Own Foundation, which will provide $10,000 donations to charities selected by of each of 10 national honorees. The 18th Make A Difference Day is Saturday, Oct. 25, 2008.
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