North Platte Area RSVP
Serve your neighbor! Serve your community! Serve your country! North Platte Area RSVP is doing just that for the past 50 years! Volunteers of all ages are making quite an impact! Volunteers provide service to local non-profit organizations such as the RSVP Literacy Program, Grace Ministries Food Pantry, Habitat for Humanity and American Red Cross, just to name a few.
In the past 50 years, RSVP volunteers have reported a total of 4,316,101 hours of volunteer service to meet community needs. 4,316,101 hours is valued at $137,252,011.80 in volunteer support and manpower needed to make our community the unique and wonderful place it is today!
Currently there are 595 enrolled volunteers. In the past 12 months volunteers have served a total of 70,272 hours.
On December 3rd, 2023 at the North Platte Area RSVP Volunteer Recognition Event six volunteers were recognized for serving the most volunteer hours during a twelve month period (from October 1st, 2022-September 30th, 2023). The three ladies recognized for serving the most hours were Julie Wiezorek (1,688 ½ hours), Alma Bullington (1,578 ½ hours) & Mary Lou Derman (1,117 hours). The three men recognized for serving the most hours were Chuck Scripter (1,854 1/2 hours), Pat Wiezorek (1,389 hours) and Dan Ridgway (1,046 hours).
Volunteers were also recognized for their Years of Service. Volunteers who reached a milestone year (5, 10, 15, 20, 25 and 30) are as follows:
30 Years - Dorothy Conger, Joe Conger & Fern Fogland.
25 Years - Beth Dunbar, Donna Effenbeck, Marion Effenbeck & Sharon Karre.
20 Years - Rita Catlin, Joseph Grachek, Mitzy Hayes, Agnes Moritz, James Nisley, Shirley Nisley, Deanna O’Donnell, Judy Rolfes, Bonnie Smith, Marion Thomsen & Chris Zook.
15 Years - Karen Becvar, Pat Dannatt, Lanita Evans, Russell Evans, Mary Hughes, Cheryl Kurth, Gloria Lipinski, Marion Lipinski, Gary Neal, Jerry Neal, Mary Rasmussen, Daniel Rochford, LouAnn Rochford, Robert Smith, Marlene Songster, Paulette Stefka, Sheila Thomlison & Robert Wilkinson.
10 Years - Dennis Barkley, Sharon Barkley, Clydene Britton, Robert Britton, Tom Camargo, Virginia Evans, Jody Isabell, Jona Knapp, Vanessa Knapp, Jean Leibbrandt, Arlene Miller, Sandra Olive, Carolyn Rickett, Gary Rickett, Sharie Riese, Debra Rogers, Carson Songster, Gary Stengle, William Ward & Donnita Williams.
5 Years - Micky Aden, Berva Arensdorf, Kathy Beisner, Ron Beisner, Dennis Burton, Inga Burton, Lisa Durnell, Sandy Gale, Rick Hoffman, Kevin Janssen, Jeromy Miller, Julia Pettit, Harry Reitz, JoAnne Reitz, Linda Richarson, Marlene Smeltzer, Linda Stengle, Linda Thompson, Roseann Vanstell, Lois Vargas, Rick Volker & Lynda Wilkinson.
We would like to thank the following business/organizations for sponsoring a table: City of North Platte, Eakes Office Plus, Flying Needles Quilting Group, Fraternal Order of the Eagles #2839, Golden Spike Tower & Visitors Center, Home Instead Senior Care, Linden Court, NebraskaLand Bank, North Platte Community College Athletic & Music Departments, North Platte Public School District, North Platte Union Pacific Employees Credit Union, Odean Colonial Chapel, RSVP Advisory Council, U-Save Pharmacy, Visit North Platte and West Central Nebraska Agency on Aging.
For more information about how to get involved with the North Platte Area RSVP, contact (308) 535-6777, check out our website at www.ci.north-platte.ne.us/volunteer/rsvp or like us on Facebook at NPRSV
