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posted Friday, January 30, 2009 - Volume 37 Issue 05 |
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MLK Day volunteers at Lambert House
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| MLK Day volunteers at Lambert House
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by Tim Peter -
SGN Contributing Writer
Martin Luther King, Jr., would have turned 80 years old on January 15. On Monday, January 19, Americans were asked by President and Mrs. Obama to honor the Civil Rights leader by contributing their time and effort to community service projects in their local neighborhoods. In Seattle, many people showed up at different sites to help where needed. Among those, approximately a dozen people showed up to help at Lambert House, a drop-in center on Capitol Hill for GLBTQ youth up to age 22.
The project was hosted by City Year, which is a division of Volunteers of America (VOA). It included sorting donated clothes, repainting the stairs, deep cleaning the kitchen and other routine cleaning.
Katie Tastrom, volunteer manager at Lambert House, said, "It went very well. The youth were very appreciative and made lots of positive comments about the floors and the painted stairs. They actually thought we got new floors because they were cleaned so well." She added that volunteers are always needed at the house for a variety of projects, some working directly with the youth who come to the house, while other projects would be less visible.
According to the website mlkday.gov, "More than 13,000 service projects took place across the country, more than double last year. Americans made it 'a day on, not a day off' by delivering meals, refurbishing schools, reading to children, signing up mentors, and much, much more. Fueled by President Obama's call to service, this was the largest King Day of Service ever."
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