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