Wallace, Idaho
170 students participated
Poll Analysis - Pre-selected options
Personal intangible wishes
1st = fun 2nd = worthwhile use of time 3rd = good feeling
7th = role model 6th(tie) meeting new people & putting own
values into practice
Personal tangible wishes
1st = apprenticeships 2nd = free passes 3rd = class credits
11th = TV coverage 10th = published 9th = letters
of recommendation
Wishes for the Community
1st = auditorium, skate park etc. 2nd = school upgrades
5th = childcare upgrades 4th = library upgrades
Reasons for NOT Volunteering
1st = no time 2nd = need money 3rd = need transportation
14th = parents not approve 13th = uncool 12th
= have to be 18 years
Volunteer 5 hours a week
During school year?
Yes = 117 NO = 35 (12 of the 35 will volunteer during summer)
During summer? Yes = 118
Currently volunteer?
Yes = 28
Poll Analysis - Hand Written Comments
Random Sampling
Trades
"Being challenged to do something for my community."
"Food while working."
"Lots of chocolate."
"Replace the trees that were logged around our town, a minor league sports team and an always-open place for residents to play sports."
"Dance/recreation center; recognition and a job."
"I think we should open up the school computer to all high school students who want to learn more on weekends; a better youth center or something that's fun for us to learn at school."
"I would like to earn maybe a car or truck and a college grant."
"I would want myself and a group of volunteers to be able to go on a field trip to anywhere we want."
"I would like to spend time collecting food for anyone with low income. To see them happy would be adequate trade."
"A trip each year, nothing exotic, maybe Seattle or Portland; plaques to the top three workers; a YMCA type organization."
A desire for a teen hangout was voiced over and over:"A chance to help to make something for the teenagers to do. Rolle skating rink, arcade, pizza parlor, a mall for something for kids to do; an Alcholics Anonymous Club (not group) like the Alano Club in Helena, Montana.. [Since there is little to do in Wallace,] we have a lot of drug addicts and alcoholics starting at very young ages. I myself am a recovering alcoholic who, when I moved back here from Helena, Montana, relapsed after four months of sobriety because there is a very poor Alcoholics Anonymous group here. (I'm only 15 years old!)"
No Thank You!
"I didn't know where to start."
"People are snobby. They say I'm not prepared to do the work I know I'm capable of doing."
"I have not volunteered because I don't know where to and I need money. But I will do work!"
Volunteers
"I volunteer at the hospital, day care and the nursing home."
"Shoveling walks and driveways and mowing lawns for the elderly, and babysitting for younger people for free."
"I volunteered at the county hospital."
"I volunteer to do a variety of things at the public library."
"I volunteer for Habitat for Humanity, Search & Rescueas well as the local fire department."
"I volunteer at the Good Sam in Silverton. I help in the kitchen when they have banquets. I also talk with residents when they need someone to talk to."
"In the summer I teach Scholar Bowl for upward bound. This class helps students get ready for academic competition. I also donate time to a local house that conducts tours during the Haloween and Christmas seasons."
"I have volunteered at a local hospital in the extended care center, at our public library, filled luminaries for winter walk, helped cleaned the pool after it had been sand blasted, participated in school clean ups in general , helped with children's activities during hospital open house and I've helped an elementary school teacher. I do whatever I am asked to do. Currently I am working on a Scout Gold Award project to provide free computer classes to adults in my community. I was planning a community center, but didn't have the resources for this."
"I volunteer as a Special Olympics ski coach. I go up on the mountain every Saturday and coach for eight hours."
"I like kids and work well with them. I also like to help other people. I would like to learn how to do a variety of things and I could do that by volunteering and possibly someday find a job with less trouble."
"I laid sod for the school field."
"I shovel walks for the elderly in the winter."
"I do odd things around town like shovel snow and sell consessions. I do a vareity of things at the public library. Once I organized and ran a special Haloween party for little kids."
"I donate time to the Shoshone County Sheriffs Department; wash cars, ride with
them and do whatever they need me to do."