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Published May 16, 2008 11:40 pm - Red Cross volunteers crucial to group’s effort By Donna Hales Phoenix Staff Writer Editor’s note: One in a series of stories about volunteer opportunities available in Muskogee.
Volunteers: the American Red Cross needs you in the office, emergency service or in health and safety or disaster work, officials said. And if disasters are what gets your volunteer urge cranked up, an informational meeting about the Red Cross Disaster Action Team begins at 6 p.m., May 29, said Jordan Pool, community relations coordinator. Five or six volunteers from the Muskogee area have been crucial to the Red Cross effort in Picher, said Nellie Kelly, American Red Cross spokeswoman in Tulsa, which oversees 18 counties in Oklahoma. Hundreds of people are suffering losses from a recent tornado that practically destroyed the town, she said. A mother and son volunteer team from Muskogee has been invaluable, Kelly said. Roger and Mary Posey have been working extremely hard, she said. ”They are an excellent example how families who volunteer together can see needs in the community,” Kelly said. Neither Roger or Mary Posey could be reached for comment — they were working too hard at volunteering. “Volunteering is not just for elderly people but for young people who want to make a difference,” Kelly said. Hope Margarit of Tahlequah, the new director of the American Red Cross in Muskogee, packed her bags and left for Picher after the Picher disaster hit, Pool said. “She’s really been thrown into what disaster is all about,” Kelly said. Margarit is in charge of the feeding of 2,200 hot meals a day in Picher — 1,100 lunches and 1,100 suppers, Kelly said. And Muskogee volunteers are helping anywhere they’re needed. Some of the volunteers at the Red Cross office in Muskogee were sent by the American Association of Retired People, Pool said. The AARP has a program where it sends members needing jobs to sites to be trained so they can become employable. 
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