Win 2 ’Treated-Pine’ Adirondack Chairs!!
Tickets can be purchased at the Wednesday Afternoon Westerville Farmers Market thoughout the month of August .
1 ticket is $1 or 6 tickets for $5
Chairs donated by Amish Originals
Drawing will be on Wednesday, August 25th. Winner will be notified.
Parade Grand Marshall Scott Marier and wife Marcia took the front seat in our local Independence Day celebration and the WARM donations rolled in. Parade route collections that day represented more than 3.1 tons of grocery supplies.
This means nearly 6,500 meals for local families were generated during that one patriotic event. All we can say is: “Wow! This community really knows how to throw a party!”
Reprinted courtesy of the Westerville News & Public Opinion/SNP, ©Copyright 2010
Originally published May 19, 2010
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Helping unemployed Westerville school district residents find and keep jobs earned the Westerville Area Resource Ministry an Ohio Nonprofit Excellence Award from the Ohio Association of Nonprofit Organizations.
WARM was chosen from more than 100 entries submitted for the award by nonprofit agencies across the state, and presented with the honor May 11 in an Ohio Statehouse ceremony.
The OANO award recognizes “creativity, execution, achievement, and overall excellence of a specific project or program completed by an Ohio nonprofit the previous year.”
WARM was recognized for Steps To Overcome Poverty, or the STOP program, a self-sufficiency program that helps unemployed Westerville City School District residents gain the confidence and skills needed to secure and retain full-time employment.
Volunteer trainers and mentors work with WARM staff to teach resume writing, interviewing skills, job search planning, financial literacy, and job readiness.
“Enrollment in our jobs placement program has increased dramatically due to the tough economy and high unemployment rates we’ve been facing,” said WARM Executive Director Scott Marier in a prepared statement.
Unemployment in Westerville is consistent with that of Franklin County and Central Ohio. But these figures do not speak of the economic impact of unemployment on people’s lives, he said.
“By increasing the employability of our clients, the STOP program alleviates poverty, improves self-esteem, and promotes all the benefits of being a contributing member of society,” Marier said. “The whole community benefits as demand on public assistance is reduced and the number of people living in poverty decreases. … Improved levels of family stability and civic responsibility are also visible.”
WARM funds the STOP program with general operating funds generated by program partners, grants, special events and individual, corporate, civic and church donations.
Thank you to all who participated in this year’s Westerville Community Prayer Breakfast. Each year we are amazed and pleased by the active participation of the community at large, which includes city and school leaders, individuals, area churches and corporate citizens. We couldn’t host this sold out event if it weren’t for the consistent support of the Sunrise Rotary and the many business partners who donated in-kind items. The annual breakfast has become a time honored event in which we collectively recognize that our faith and the varied ways in which we practice that faith, is what brings us together rather than give credence for division. We are a community blessed with resources and have answered the call to share those resources with all who call Westerville home as well as those we can serve in our surrounding communities. It is not by accident that we are given the honor of being the 15th greatest place to live in the United States.
To all who purchased tables and seats at the event, we say a hearty ‘Thank You’. We trust that your presence at the Prayer Breakfast moved you closer to an inward knowledge that we are all put here ‘For Such A Time As This’.
We thank Cabot Rea, news anchor, NBC4i, for telling his story of how prayer to an Audience of One has sustained him throughout his life’s journey.
A special thank you to all who participated in the program, our corporate sponsors, and the many volunteers who worked tirelessly to once again bring quality talent to this event. For a listing of our supporters, please click here to see the event program.