On March 21st, the Ballroom of the Downingtown Country Club hummed with a lively mix of voices and music at the start of the 42nd Annual RSVP of Chester County Volunteer Recognition Luncheon. As the focus of the event, the members of RSVP had gathered to celebrate and to be honored for their dedication to…
RSVP of Chester County hosted its 41st Annual Volunteer Recognition Luncheon on Thursday, March 22. The event was held at Radley Run Country Club in West Chester, and included entertainment from the always enthusiastic, Grateful Alive Band. Over 135 volunteers and honorable guests attended the luncheon and enjoyed the dynamic emcee performance provided by Burt Rothenberger,…
Five years-ago, Karen Ammon was drawn to the doorstep of a young unmarried girl with a nine month-old baby. The apartment was dingy and filled with cigarette smoke. The baby’s playpen was a makeshift circle of dirty couch cushions. The apartment was cluttered with roommates who barely noticed the infant sleeping in their living room….
Althea Fulton (age 83) was full of smiles and tears on March 24 when she was named RSVP’s 2010-2011 Downingtown Area School District Volunteer of the Year at RSVP’s 40th Annual Volunteer Recognition Luncheon. “I was shocked. I still can’t believe it!” she says. Its been a tough year for Althea—her husband of 54 years passed…
It’s a RSVP Volunteer Program tradition at Family Service… each year, we invite RSVP “stations“ in Chester County to nominate their most exemplary volunteers for RSVP’s annual Volunteer of the Year Award. We also invite Downingtown area schools to nominate volunteers for a special Downingtown Area School District Volunteer of the Year Award—this year, they nominated…
On Thursday, March 24, the Retired and Senior Volunteer Program will recognize and thank 338 volunteers who dedicated their time and skills to serving Chester County nonprofits, schools, hospitals and community organizations in 2010 at the 40th Annual RSVP Luncheon, to be held at the Radley Run Country Club. Where We Began In 1966, New…
This October, members of the Turks Head Exchange Club collected and distributed nonperishable food to 11 low income families in Family Service’s Exchange Club Family Center program, as well as to one family from Family Service’s Counseling Program.
Early one morning, Raman Patel, a RSVP volunteer at the Chester County Family Academy, woke up to a surprise phone call from a very excited seven year-old girl. Ayan Scott-Hicks, one of the second graders in Raman’s chess club, had entered a weekend chess tournament and taken home first place in her age group! “The…
Contact Us