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525,600 Minutes: Measuring a Year as a Vista: The End

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Friday, August 20, 2010. 0: Speeding or parking tickets (woohoo! 12: Trips to Columbus. 34: Tax and benefit clients served. 37: Lunches at Chipotle*. 12,109: Miles I put on my car. 49,510: Pounds of food collected from the Holiday Food Drive. 77,182: Pounds of food collected from Stamp Out Hunger. 525,600: Minutes I served as an AmeriCorps*VISTA. Number has been guesstimated. Well, the time has come. This is my last day as a VISTA, and I'm feeling bittersweet right now. Now I can quite comfortably:.

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Down with Poverty: Reentry Resource Fair in Fremont

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My Year as an Americorps VISTA.Fighting Poverty With Passion. Thursday, July 22, 2010. Reentry Resource Fair in Fremont. Tonya Bailey, Americorps VISTA Leader with the Ohio Association of Second Harvest Food Banks, talks with a Sandusky County inmate about community resources available to assist him in making the transition out of incarceration. This morning, I journeyed east, to the lovely Fremont, Ohio, for a Reentry Community Resource Fair. About the fair from the Fremont News Messenger. April 2010: $...

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Down with Poverty: Costa Rica

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My Year as an Americorps VISTA.Fighting Poverty With Passion. Thursday, August 19, 2010. It's been a while since I posted. Sorry! Went to Costa Rica! Much-needed break. Not really sorry to say I didn't think about work or even the U.S. much at all :). But as of tomorrow I will be unemployed, eeks! Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). You are here to enrich the world and you impoverish yourself if you forget that errand.". View my complete profile. Http:/ www.thebenefitbank.com/TBBOH. May 2010: $970.10.

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Down with Poverty: Fun, Free Ways To Fight Hungar

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My Year as an Americorps VISTA.Fighting Poverty With Passion. Thursday, August 19, 2010. Fun, Free Ways To Fight Hungar. Do you want to give $50 of someone else's money toward helping feed America's families? Feeding America has a 50-question quiz on its website. For each multiple-choice question answered correctly, Kraft Food Foundation will donate $1.(They let you keep guessing until you get all 50 right). So far Kraft has donated more than $50,000 in response to the quiz. Nice! To take the quiz. You a...

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Down with Poverty: Taking the Plunge

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My Year as an Americorps VISTA.Fighting Poverty With Passion. Saturday, September 19, 2009. When I started applying to Americorps programs this spring, I had been rolling the idea around for the past several years. Either way, I ended up being offered a job at a newspaper in South Dakota, which I loved and which allowed me to learn tons while actually using my degree, pay off my car, save up some money and satisfy my restless wanderer streak by moving randomly across the country to start a life on my own.

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Down with Poverty: February 2010

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My Year as an Americorps VISTA.Fighting Poverty With Passion. Sunday, February 21, 2010. You Just Never Know. You never know what you are going to get at a tax clinic. I've had clients sit down with a single W-2, looking like they'll be super-easy, only to hit a snag with some complicated itemized deduction or pension question. The ones that look the easiest - beware! Others come in with a schload of complicated-looking paperwork, only to breeze through, done and done. Personalities can also be a toss-up.

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Down with Poverty: June 2010

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My Year as an Americorps VISTA.Fighting Poverty With Passion. Saturday, June 26, 2010. On Friday afternoon, Mercy College and Ohio Association of Second Harvest Food Banks hosted a Poverty Simulation at Mercy College in Toledo. A Poverty Simulation is an interactive event that helps participants understand what life is like with a shortage of resources and an abundance of stress. I participated in a poverty simulation. I was the bank. Here's me with my money pouch. The General Employer, aka the workplace...

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Down with Poverty: Unison Health and Wellness Fair

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My Year as an Americorps VISTA.Fighting Poverty With Passion. Saturday, July 24, 2010. Unison Health and Wellness Fair. Unison Health hosted a Health and Wellness Fair at the Erie Street Market in downtown Toledo today. Amy and I manned the Ohio Benefit Bank table. We had some good conversations with some other agencies, several of whom were excited to learn more about OBB. So hopefully we have some presentations to schedule in our future! Sorry, I couldn't resist.). The last time I went it was early spr...

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Down with Poverty: Hey! I'm CPR Certified Now!

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My Year as an Americorps VISTA.Fighting Poverty With Passion. Wednesday, July 21, 2010. I'm CPR Certified Now! Today Maureen and I were certified in CPR and First Aid by the American Heart Association during a free day-long class at the Lucas County Department of Health. The last time I had any CPR training was in junior high, so the day was full of lots of good common-sense reminders as well as some new and updated information. Or that a person having a heart attack loses 500 heart cells per SECOND?

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Down with Poverty: August 2010

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My Year as an Americorps VISTA.Fighting Poverty With Passion. Friday, August 20, 2010. Today was my last day as an Americorps VISTA. Bernice, my supervisor at the food bank, brought in a cake and card for a going away party, and fellow VISTA Amy brought Snickers ice cream bars, aww! Then all us VISTA girls went to Tony Packos for a working lunch/good-bye meal. Mmmm Packo's Chili Mac. The end is bittersweet. This year has been amazing. When I quit my job. I came from a career in journalism; this year made...