Everyone Should Give Back To The Community

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Community Service is a way to give back to the community and maybe promoting others to do the same. It allows you to get experience doing different things and meet new people. I believe everyone should give back to the community in some way because of the good it brings and the feeling of helping others is even better. My ten hours of community service was spent giving back to my crew. During the fall, the crew team conducts learn to row sessions allowing kids interested in rowing in the spring to get a feel on how to row a boat and to see if they enjoy the experience. Four years ago I was one of those new rowers and the help from the older rowers made my experience learning to row ten times better. Every year after I started rowing I would

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