The week before Thanksgiving, the Center always recognizes the volunteers with a catered meal and music as a way to show our appreciation and thanks. This year the theme was "Handful of Thanks" with decorations, centerpieces and even the certificates adorned with cookie cutter dough hands. I gave a speech incorporating hands as the theme (right hand men and women, hand you can rely on, etc). The highlight though was the many frail older clients (the receivers of the voluteerism) giving testomonials as to how there lives are better because of these wonderful volunteers.
M. Judith Nortman