White House Gives Awards to 7 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://pointsoflight.org, or by contacting the foundation at 1400 I Street, N.W., Suite 800, Washington 20005; (202) 729-8184.

The recipients:

1333. Wilfred A. Barry, St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands, a U.S. Marshal who recounts to young people the story of his brother’s death in a drive-by shooting in order to increase awareness of the dangers of drugs and crime.

1334. Parents and Children Together, Decatur, Ala., a community group that works to prevent child abuse and neglect through several educational programs for schoolchildren, new parents, and parents who have been referred by child-protection agencies.

1335. EMC Insurance Companies, Des Moines, whose employees have volunteered at Generations Incorporated for the past five years, providing home-delivered meals to elderly and disabled people.

1336. A. Mark Gadue, Burlington, Vt., a dry cleaner who, with his sister, Laurie Gadue Morgan, started the four-year-old “Read to Ride” literacy program for children. The program gives children one entry in a drawing for bicycles and other prizes for each book they read.

1337. Planting Partnership, Wellsburg, W.Va., a group created last year by farmer Eric Freeland in an effort to grow food for local poor and homeless people; volunteers work with the Soup Kitchen of Greater Wheeling, W.Va., which last year harvested almost one ton of tomatoes, zucchini, and other produce for use by the soup kitchen.

1338. Andersen Consulting, Atlanta, which sponsors monthly employee volunteer projects, and which helped develop a model program to teach other companies how to find volunteer opportunities for their employees.

1339. Center for the Homeless, South Bend, Ind., which takes a comprehensive approach to helping homeless individuals and families through a network of health-care, counseling, job-training, and substance-abuse services, in addition to emergency food and shelter services.