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4/26/2012 - West Side Leader
     

By Kathleen Folkerth

Shown clockwise from top left are: Caroline, Daisya, Amelia, Andrew Appleby, Karris and Andrew Feist. Ty’Easha is not pictured.
Photos courtesy of the city of Akron

DOWNTOWN AKRON —Akron Mayor Don Plusquellic and other city officials honored the city’s top youth volunteers April 24, Global Youth Service Day, at the Akron-Summit County Main Library.

Global Youth Service Day, the largest service event in the world, mobilizes youth to identify and address the needs of their communities through service-learning and community service, according to city officials.

The Akron youths took part in a reception, followed by a program that evening. The teens are among those in the United States who collectively have contributed more than 2 billion hours of service to communities, Akron officials said.

Students who were honored are:

• Ty’Easha Johnson, Volunteer of the Year in the 12- and 13-year-olds category, for 20 hours spent providing students at Perkins Middle School with music lessons;

• Caroline Christoff, Outstanding Volunteer in the 12- and 13-year-olds category, for her volunteering 50 hours a month at One of a Kind Pet Rescue;

• Daisya Marie Hadden, Volunteer of the Year in the 14- and 15-year-olds category, for her 128 hours of volunteer service at Arlington Church of God;

• Andrew Feist, Outstanding Volunteer (tie) in the 14- and 15-year-olds category, for donating 488 hours of IT and technical expertise at PAWSibilities, Humane Society of Greater Akron;

• Amelia Newberry, Outstanding Volunteer (tie) in the 14- and 15-year-olds category, for 140 hours volunteering with Friends of the Stow-Monroe Falls Public Library;

• Karris Barclay, Volunteer of the Year in the 16 years and older category, for spending 111 hours on giving a gift to mothers and families leaving Harvest Home through Girl Scouts of North East Ohio, Troop No. 90358; and

• Andrew Appleby, Outstanding Volunteer in the 16 and older category, for 170 hours of volunteer work at Patterson Park Community Center.

Akron officials said nominating agencies of winners would receive a cash donation in the name of the winning volunteer. Akron and sponsor U.S. Bank presented $200 donations in the name of each first place Volunteer of the Year and a contribution of $150 in the name of each second place Outstanding Volunteer.

     

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