Some local residents are spending their Martin Luther King Jr. Day the way it should be spent: by serving others.
AmeriCorps and the Butler Health System teamed up Monday on ‘Soup for the City.’
“We are making vegetable soup and chili and we’re going to distribute it to a local homeless shelter, area churches and other human service agencies in Butler,” says Matt McConnell, the coordinator for the AmeriCorps Program at Butler Memorial Hospital.
Volunteers made and packaged the soup Monday morning and will deliver it this afternoon.
Why do this? McConnell says it simply comes down to people helping people.
“We like to give back to the community,” he said. “Our members have dealt with their own struggles and now they want to give back.”
The Americorps program is facilitated inside the Butler Health System’s Family Services building on North Washington Street.
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