Editorial: Caring volunteers kick off United Way drive
By World's Editorials Writers on Sep 6, 2013, at 2:22 AM Updated on 9/06/13 at 3:42 AM
Editorials
The 6,300 employees at the American Airlines Maintenance Facility in Tulsa could use some certainty, but they're going to have to wait.
The loss of 12 lives, 13 counting the suspect, in the Navy shipyard shootings Monday is tragic. With each killing spree the natural reaction is to search for the motive or the psychological reason for such a horrific event.
More than 5,000 volunteers will hit the streets Friday for the annual Tulsa Area United Way Day of Caring. That, however, is only the beginning.
Yes, it's the time of year again to help our neighbors. Those volunteers will be doing some heavy lifting at 350 job sites across Tulsa. They will be doing everything from painting to picking up old chewing gum from sidewalks.
Tulsans have every right to be proud of the work performed on this day. After all, it continues to be one of the largest one-day service events in the country whose volunteers have, over the years, put in more than 30,000 hours on the various projects.
The Tulsa Area United Way serves 62 agencies and more than 630,000 area residents in Creek, Okmulgee, Osage, Rogers, Wagoner and Tulsa counties.
The drive will announce its fund-raising goal Sept. 13, prior to the Jenks-Union high school football game.
Tulsans will be asked to donate a portion of their salaries to help their neighbors in need. Rarely have they failed.
No doubt, this will be another successful drive. After the much-appreciated painting and the gum-scraping by hundreds of volunteers whose companies have generously allowed them the time off to help, the rest of us will be asked to do our share.
Tulsa can be proud of its United Way organization, which continues to be one of the best in the nation, and the volunteers who do their part.
And that is just the beginning.
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Editorials
The 6,300 employees at the American Airlines Maintenance Facility in Tulsa could use some certainty, but they're going to have to wait.
The loss of 12 lives, 13 counting the suspect, in the Navy shipyard shootings Monday is tragic. With each killing spree the natural reaction is to search for the motive or the psychological reason for such a horrific event.
