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Make a Difference VOLUNTEER!
Methuen Councillor Kathleen Corey Rahme
10/03/06

Make a Difference - Volunteer   During my election bid in 2003, I promised to create the Methuen Youth Corps for our young people in Methuen to have the opportunity to participate in volunteer activities. Anyone who has ever applied for a scholarship, sought entrance into a private high school or applied for college knows one of the questions always asked is about community service or volunteerism. While that should be motivation enough to join, I feel the act of volunteerism in and of itself is a wonderful thing.

The Methuen Youth Corps is a unique organization in that it does not have meetings. It does not collect dues and participation is based on availability. That is, the availability of the participant as well as community service projects. As the founder of the Methuen Youth Corps I have forged many partnerships throughout the City of Methuen with both the city itself and various not-for-profits. Since its inception in 2004, the Methuen Youth Corps has worked with the Mayor’s office during the annual city-wide clean-up days, the Methuen Historical Society for various activities including the Greycourt Gala, the Director of Veterans’ Services, the Trauma Intervention Program, the Lawrence Viet Nam Memorial, the Methuen DPW and the Elmwood Cemetery, the 100th Anniversary of the Searles Building, the annual Methuen Santa Parade, and the Methuen Senior Center. We have also worked with various Girl Scout and Boy Scout Troops. The Methuen Youth Corps have cleaned up garbage, placed flags on veterans’ graves, set up chairs, handed out water at a road races, acted as ambassadors for our city, edged hundreds of veterans’ bronze markers and passed out candy at parades to name a few of our many activities.

We are looking for new members. If you would like to join the Methuen Youth Corps or if you are a not-for-profit organization that needs help and would like to partner with us, please contact me. My email is kcoreyrahme@ comcast.net or you can telephone me at (978)686-0008. I have written numerous letters of reference on behalf of our members and I am willing to continue to do that in the future.

Kathleen Corey Rahme is the former Central District Councilor in Methuen and was elected as a city councilor “at large” last year. She is also the founder of the Methuen Youth Corps and hosts "Call to Serve." You can email her at kcoreyrahme @comcast.net

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