Volunteer Spotlight

Discovering Community, Making Connections

Sharing your volunteers stories, experiences, and interests with the community.

Volunteer Spotlight

Welcome to Volunteer Spotlight

Welcome to our Volunteer Spotlight feature.

Our community is greatly supported by dazzling volunteers and we want to provide the opportunity to share the personal stories, experiences, and interests behind these amazing individuals.

We aim to spotlight the rich lives our volunteers lead, especially in regards to their volunteering endeavors 

Ayoola Arimde

Ayoola is one of our new youth summer volunteers. She is currently a grade 12 student. She is incredibly ambitious and is taking summer school classes. One of her classes has a component called “Faith in Action” where the students are asked to go out into the community and use … Read more

Blayne Thomas

Blayne has been volunteering for LSCO for many years. Currently Blayne helps out in the dining room and kitchen supporting the staff by washing down tables, wiping out the Meals on Wheels cooler bags, and putting away dishes. Blayne is dedicated to his role, and he is always willing to … Read more

Joanne and Ben Lydom

Joanne and Ben have been volunteering with LSCO for over two decades now. Like many of our wonderful volunteers, Joanne and Ben are committed and dependable. They truly love to give of their time and share their talents with LSCO. They believe that one of the most important things LSCO … Read more

Income Tax Volunteers

Meet some of our Team of Community Volunteer Income Tax Program (CVITP) Volunteers, Eleanor Doerksen, Carmen Gfrerer, Pat Kincade, and Corrie Krueger. These committed volunteers have spent the months of March and April actively filing over 400 tax files for low income members of our community and surrounding areas and … Read more

Sharlene Peterson

 Sharlene Peterson has been volunteering with Community Connect since 2019. Community Connect is a program that provides safety and connection to Senior’s in our community through regularly schedule phone calls and social interactions. Sharlene also currently volunteers at schools reading to young people who need help developing their reading and … Read more

Barb Dodd

Barb Dodd had always wanted to devote more time to volunteering within the Lethbridge community, but being a busy mom raising kids, helping with the PTA, and working did not leave her enough time for all of the volunteer work she wanted to do. However, volunteering is in her blood, … Read more

Veronica Panich

Veronica has been volunteering with LSCO for 8 years doing dishes, food prep, bingos, and (more recently) sitting on the Board of Directors. She considers LSCO to be her second family and loves to watch the groups of seniors coming together here at the center to find a sense of … Read more

Jon Joyce

Jon and his partner in crime, Toby the dog, have been volunteering for LSCO for about a year now as regular drivers for the Meals on Wheels program. Jon moved from Ontario last year where he also volunteered with a community Meals on Wheels program there. Before that, Jon drove … Read more

Vonda Giroux

Vonda has been volunteering at LSCO since July of 2023 when her daughter told her that she should get out of the house and meet people — something Vonda took to heart. Since then, she’s become an indispensable member of our volunteer team filling any shifts she can, preparing meals … Read more

Jerry

Many of the programs at LSCO are run with the help of wonderful and dedicated volunteers. As a show of appreciation, we wanted to highlight one of our many hardworking volunteers. Jerry has been an LSCO volunteer since 2019. After taking a break to be a caregiver to his mom, … Read more

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