‘Points of Light’ Awards Honor Outstanding Volunteers

Following are the people and organizations that have most recently been named to receive President Clinton’s daily “Points of Light” award.

The awards, which are given to those who have done exemplary volunteer work, take their name from President Bush’s description of people who do community service as “points of light.” Some 1,020 people received the honor when Mr. Bush was in office.

The Points of Light Foundation, a Washington charity, assists the President in making the choices and carrying out the award program. More information about the award winners and the program is available at the foundation’s World-Wide Web site: http://www.pointsoflight.org or by getting in touch with the foundation at 1737 H Street, N.W., Washington 20006; (202) 223-9186.

The recipients:

1043. Sandy Good, Hazard, Ky., a pediatric specialist who developed and directs a home-visitation and child-health program for low-income families in rural eastern Kentucky.

1044. Allan Lowenberg, St. Joseph, Mo., who has volunteered at Edison Elementary School for 11 years, tutoring children, bringing them birthday cakes and Christmas gifts, donating clothes and money, and teaching conflict-resolution skills.

1045. PAWS (Positive Achievement With Students) for Success, Gloucester, Va., a program in which high-school students tutor and serve as mentors for at-risk and low-achieving elementary-school students.

1046. Health in A.C.T.I.O.N., Peekskill, N.Y., a corps of trained volunteers who provide various community-based health-care services, including the Minority Health Awareness Project and a program that links teen-agers and homebound senior citizens.

1047. Calvin Jones, Ocala, Fla., founder of the Skill Day Center, an after-school “safe house” for disadvantaged children living in the high-crime Busbee Quarters housing complex.

1048. Kids Hope USA, Spring Lake, Mich., a program in which adult volunteers from local churches meet one-on-one with needy children once a week.

1049. Our Kids Are Okay, Mountain Home, Ark., which provides medical and other services to children of working poor parents in Baxter County, Ark.

1050. Green Mountain Prevention Projects, Burlington, Vt., which trains teen-agers to serve as peer educators and to encourage other adolescents to avoid illegal drugs.

1051. Daemen College, Department of Community Service, Amherst, N.Y., a program that recruits student volunteers to work in soup kitchens, nursing homes, hospitals, and other locations in western New York State.

1052. United Parcel Service-Georgia District, Atlanta, whose employees provide various volunteer services at Thurgood Marshall Middle School, including painting and tutoring.