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By Jed Duvall
Special to the Rappahannock News
Hundreds of men andwomen in Rappahannock County report for unpaid work every week - a few, every day.
The fire and rescue companies all operate completely on volunteer efforts.
The public library counts 11 souls who each work four to six hours, one day each week.
In addition, there is an informal list of several more who have said, at one time or another, “if you ever need any help, just call me....”
The volunteer coordinator for the public school system, Tasha White, can add up roughly 50 people who have submitted paperwork to become volunteers in the elementary or high school. White says on any one day there are five people in the schools, reading to children, tutoring, mentoring, or helping to label folders that are seint home to parents. . , For special school events such as International Day, the Senior Banquet and others, parents turn out to do much of the preparation, the event itself, and the cleanup.
Still other parents set up tables for the science fair, and several are judges at the same event.
Adding up the contributions of those folks, White points out, could run the total of people volunteering in the schools to over 100. That estimate does not begin to address the many hours of service of those involved in the Parent Teacher Organization and the RCSSA, the Rappahannock County School Sports Association.
There is one particular need unfilled right now, White adds: for a Spanish speaker to “help out just a bit” with a second grade pupil.
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