Running Food Bank is Reminder 'Someone Always Has It Worse'
For Kelly Kling, helping out keeps your own worries in perspective
Guess how much Kelly Kling makes for running the Strongsville Emergency Food Bank. It's a 40-hour-a-week job -- stocking the shelves, scheduling the 115 volunteers, handling paperwork, cleaning. Her paycheck? A whopping nothing. Kling just smiles and shrugs. "I just wanted to help other people," she says. "There's always someone worse off than you." A volunteer at the Food Bank for 10 years, Kling stepped into the leadership role nearly three years ago. She has genuine compassion for the people she serves "You can see the pain in their eyes," she says. "You can tell they want someone to talk to for a minute." Each month, hundreds of Strongsville residents depend on the food bank to supply them with essentials -- cereal, canned …
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Linda
8:15 pm on Thursday, May 31, 2012
Kelly is awesome! We love her to pieces! She is dedicated to helping others and asks nothing for herself. She is a living angel. more ›