Teenage Volunteers Inspire & Learn in Battle Creek

"Sixty volunteers -- 49 of them teenagers -- (recently) participat(ed) in Grand Rapids-based Youth Unlimited's SERVE project. Hosted by River Walk Community Church on Wagner Drive (in Battle Creek), the high school students cleared brush, worked on houses, painted, organized donated goods and more throughout Battle Creek...

It was the group's time at Kambly Living Center, a facility for adults with developmental disabilities, that had the most impact on at least one volunteer."There was one lady there named Holly," Lauren Koiter, 15, said of a resident there. "She was the sweetest lady ever."

Koiter, who is from Caledonia, Ontario, said she and Holly became attached to each other.

"I've never really been comfortable around people who were mentally or physically disabled," she said. "It makes me wonder why I wasn't and why they were. I got along really well with her and had a great time."

www.battlecreekenquirer.com/article/20100724/NEWS01/7240316/Serving-others-in-Battle-Creek

22 Statistics That Prove The Middle Class Is Being Systematically Wiped Out Of Existence In America

"The 22 statistics that you are about to read prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that the middle class is being systematically wiped out of existence in America.

The rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer at a staggering rate. Once upon a time, the United States had the largest and most prosperous middle class in the history of the world, but now that is changing at a blinding pace."

Read more at the Business Insider:

www.businessinsider.com/22-statistics-that-prove-the-middle-class-is-being-systematically-wiped-out-of-existence-in-america-2010-7#ixzz0ucORgv00