Hundreds of volunteers spread holiday cheer earlier this month, performing more than a dozen community service projects during the Head of the Lakes United Way Day of Caring Holiday Edition. Projects included crafting Christmas blankets for children in need at Neighborhood Youth Services, baking holiday cookies for Harbor House Crisis Shelter and collecting supplies for children at the Duluth YMCA's Little Treasures Child Care and Family Center.
1/Volunteers Melanie Goldish (second from left) and Peggy Johnson (third from left) from Flint Group helped children in YWCA’s Girl Power Program bake and decorate Christmas cookies at Myers-Wilkins Elementary School. The cookie baking was part of Head of the Lakes United Way Day of Caring Holiday Edition.
2/Essentia Health in Duluth collected supplies for children at Duluth YMCA’s Little Treasures Child Care and Family Center during Head of the Lakes United Way Day of Caring Holiday Edition. Pictured are Essentia Health volunteers (from left) Ann Edwards, Jess Hohl, Tracy Sonneson, Doreen Studier and Debra Jick. Not pictured are volunteers Kim Imholte and Ken Monger.
3/Neighborhood Youth Services volunteers snap a silly picture together to showcase the fleece blankets they made to give as Christmas gifts to afterschool youth during Head of the Lakes United Way Day of Caring Holiday Edition. Pictured are: (front row) NYS youth volunteers and Princess Kisob (second from left); and (top row, from left) Samantha Simonson, Meghan Walker, Jake Nadeau, Lexie Weiss, Roger Risley and Mary Rapps Risley.
4/Anna Downs and her mother Brenda Eisenmann (not pictured) baked cookies for Harbor House Crisis Shelter in Duluth for Head of the Lakes United Way Day of Caring Holiday Edition. Downs is a board member with United Way.
