{"id":5566,"date":"2012-11-01T09:02:45","date_gmt":"2012-11-01T14:02:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/social.plymouth.k12.in.us\/perspective\/?p=5566"},"modified":"2014-04-07T07:15:45","modified_gmt":"2014-04-07T12:15:45","slug":"community-service-intertwines-in-students-lives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/social.plymouth.k12.in.us\/perspective\/?p=5566","title":{"rendered":"Community Service Intertwines In Students&#8217; Lives"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_5569\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/social.plymouth.k12.in.us\/perspective\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/DSC_0314.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5569\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5569\" title=\"DSC_0314\" src=\"http:\/\/social.plymouth.k12.in.us\/perspective\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/DSC_0314-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-5569\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sophomore Josh Kuhn began volunteering as a result of his brother&#39;s influence.  Photo by: Guadalupe Ortiz<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em>By Guadalupe Ortiz<\/em><\/p>\n<p>From helping at a food drive to raking leaves for a neighbor, volunteer work is important to PHS students.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nEvery person has a different reason behind his or her volunteer work. Sophomore Josh Kuhn says, \u201cI mainly volunteer because I love making a difference.\u201d Kuhn began volunteering through his older brother, who started to get him involved in things that he did. Other students become involved with volunteering in different ways. Sophomore Cassandra Quissell began volunteering through Key Club.<\/p>\n<p>Volunteer work changes by the type of things people do while volunteering. Senior Mariah Bowen volunteers for her aunt\u2019s organization, Michiana Down Syndrome. Bowen says, \u201cI help setup and tear down for different events they have. I also interact with the kids who have Down Syndrome in between setup and tear down.\u201d Another student who works with kids is sophomore Cristina Chavez. Chavez states, \u201cI volunteer in the after-school program in Jefferson Elementary. I also randomly babysit my neighbors children when they absolutely need me. I tutor three siblings that go to the Washington Academy every Wednesday at their house.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_5568\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/social.plymouth.k12.in.us\/perspective\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/DSC_0313.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5568\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5568\" title=\"DSC_0313\" src=\"http:\/\/social.plymouth.k12.in.us\/perspective\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/DSC_0313-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-5568\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Freshman Katelyn Berg spends ten hours of her free time a week at the neighborhood center, school activities, and local carnival. Photo by: Guadalupe Ortiz<\/p><\/div>\n<p>For some students the amount of time that they volunteer is important. Junior Travis Tredway tries to volunteer at least one hour per week. Tredway adds in, \u201cWhen counting weekends, I usually reach about 4 or 5 hours per week.\u201d However, where students volunteer, for how long, or how they began is not all that is behind volunteering.<\/p>\n<p>Both sophomore Kylee Rippy and freshman Katelyn Berg say that they do not volunteer specifically for anything. They just volunteer where the help is needed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Guadalupe Ortiz From helping at a food drive to raking leaves for a neighbor, volunteer work is important to PHS students.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":178,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,9],"tags":[32],"class_list":["post-5566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-feature","category-local-news","tag-november-2012"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/social.plymouth.k12.in.us\/perspective\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5566"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/social.plymouth.k12.in.us\/perspective\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/social.plymouth.k12.in.us\/perspective\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/social.plymouth.k12.in.us\/perspective\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/178"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/social.plymouth.k12.in.us\/perspective\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5566"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/social.plymouth.k12.in.us\/perspective\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5566\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5571,"href":"https:\/\/social.plymouth.k12.in.us\/perspective\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5566\/revisions\/5571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/social.plymouth.k12.in.us\/perspective\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/social.plymouth.k12.in.us\/perspective\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/social.plymouth.k12.in.us\/perspective\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}