Healdsburg Shelter Pets Lifeline Forgotten Felines Friends of the Animals in the Redwood Empire Volunteer and Sonoma State University student Nancy Aguirre, holding sketch, works with students Karla Garcia, left, and Jessica Green during a Safe Havens program at Cook Middle School in Santa Rosa. Just visible is the class coordinator CoCo Boylan.
Some people think volunteering is a boring, tedious task.
But not if they saw the smile on Nancy Aguirre's face, or heard the laughter that surrounded her on a recent Thursday afternoon inside a classroom at Lawrence Cook Middle School. Aguirre, volunteering for Safe Havens for Youth, did not look bored. And her task, to help a small group of kids put the finishing touches on a comic book, was anything but tedious. In fact, Aguirre's volunteering could best be described as playing. She helped six boys and girls cut and paste their drawings of characters with names like Bannana Man O Man Oman, Super Sonic Catatonic and Super Alispidersonostoris.