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AmeriCorps service projects, training planned
Over 100 new and returning AmeriCorps members will be on the Lewis-Clark State College campus next week for a week-long training and to participate in community service projects. According to Charlette Kremer, Lewis-Clark Service Corps program director, the AmeriCorps members are coming from all over Idaho.
On Tuesday, October 2, they will be doing service projects. The projects include: painting soup bowls for the YWCA's SoupPort our Shelter fundraiser, painting rooms at the Lewiston Veterans Home, helping LCSC international students with their English-speaking skills, sorting food at the Community Action Partnership Food Bank, sorting and hanging clothing for St. Vincent DePaul, painting rooms at the Idaho Fish and Game office, and washing cars for the Lewis-Clark Early Childhood Education Program.
The AmeriCorps members serve at host agencies from Bonners Ferry to Pocatello. They are tutors and mentors who serve at public and charter schools, colleges and universities, faith-based and non-profit organizations, correctional facilities, and probation and parole programs.
Kremer said the AmeriCorps program at LCSC is the largest in the state of Idaho and one of the largest in the country. She said the program has been continuously funded since AmeriCorps was founded in 1994 - one of the few programs in the country that can make that claim.
For more information contact Charlette Kremer at 208.792.2166 or cpkremer2lcsc.edu
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