Morgantown Care & Rehab Honors Volunteers

Sun, 04/19/2015 - 4:57pm — Diane Dyer

The Morgantown Care and Rehabilitation Center had their annual volunteer award ceremony to honor volunteers in the community on Thursday night. The event was originated as a way to give back to local citizens who chose to donate their time in the past year.

Bronze, silver, and gold medals were awarded, as well as special Elite recognition for those who volunteered over 250 hours in 2014. Among those qualifying for the Elite status were Barnett’s Lick Baptist Church and Oak Ridge Baptist Church, both managing to volunteer 560 hours in the past year.

All volunteers in attendance were asked to raise their hands, and presented with a BCRC travel mug.
MCRC Administrator Logan Midkiff had this to say about the event: “To me this is one of the most important nights of the year, to see so many of you in the same room when we usually only see bits and pieces of each other through the week. The community of Butler County, I’m still constantly amazed at how connected… and just the spirit of community there is. We are the bench mark for all the homes in our company for volunteer programs. Everyone is constantly amazed at how many volunteers we have… that speaks volumes of everyone in this room… [and] Shirley pretty much brought it to where it is.”

“Volunteers are the salt of the earth, the best people that ever lived.” Shirley Allen stated. Allen is the Director of Volunteer Services for MCRC. Allen will have been with the nursing home for 41 years in May: “We could always use volunteers at the nursing home, especially those who would want to do one-to-one visitation. We have door greeters, and we have people that help with activities, with a lot of different things. So all they have to do is come up and see me, fill out an application, if they are 14 or older we do a background check…. We find out what they want to do. Volunteer work only works, if you’re doing what you like to do.”

County Judge Executive David Fields made a statement of thanks from the community: “In all organizations they always say 80/20… in some cases it may be 90/10, but y’all are the 10. Y’all are the special people. One of the things that volunteers…do, y’all make the people of Butler County have a better quality of life. So that’s about as good a thing as you can do for anyone.”