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2010-02-09

2010-01-19

Agriculture

Lifestyles

Tuesday, November 03, 2009 12:00 PM

Image from The Modern Woodmen

Dale Pearson, Ottawa, was featured in the article “Join Hands, Join Hearts” in the fall issue of The Modern Woodmen. Pearson helped organize a group of about 50 volunteers from the Youth Action Council, Youth in Government, Ottawa University greek life and Ottawa Area Chamber of Commerce. The volunteers planted flowers and painted benches in Ottawa’s Edward E. Haley Community Park at Second and Main streets.

Ottawan, volunteer project featured in national magazine

By RACHEL HAWKINS, Herald Staff Writer

About 420,000 people received the fall issue of The Modern Woodmen magazine, which featured local Ottawa resident Dale Pearson.

Pearson, who is the Modern Woodmen camp secretary in Ottawa, was featured in the article called “Join Hands, Join Hearts,” which was a national day of volunteering May 2.

Pearson helped organize a group of about 50 volunteers from the Youth Action Council, Youth in Government, Ottawa University greek life and Ottawa Area Chamber of Commerce. The volunteers planted flowers and painted benches in Ottawa’s Edward E. Haley Community Park at Second and Main streets.

“Modern Woodmen provided the funds, and we provided the people,” he said.

The magazine featured a photo of Pearson’s grandson, Bailey, planting flowers.

“I really just like to help,” he said in the article.

Pearson said having his grandson featured in the article was nice to see.

“It was special,” he said.

He said he did not know their specific chapter would be featured in the magazine.

“It was quite an honor,” he said. “We’re such a small town that we’re against so many big, metro cities.”

The magazine is distributed four times a year to members of the Modern Woodsmen. Pearson said they usually just send in photos of the projects they work on.

“They must have felt it was a good project,” he said. “Apparently they did.”

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Ottawan, volunteer project featured in national magazine

By RACHEL HAWKINS, Herald Staff Writer

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