Back in 1981, I became a certified community advocate helping my community. From Tiny Todd group leader raising funds to benefit low-income kids and helping low-income families in areas that I was trained in. In 1984, I received a certificate for my volunteer service from the University Of Maine co-operative service. All about helping kids learn to cook and have proper nutritional values. I then became the treasurer for the Task Force on Human Needs and became a member of the board of directors. Also was Vice President of Maine Association of Independent Neighborhoods, working on pieces of Legislation to help the community. As well as Vice President of the American Legion Auxiliary in Lisbon Falls helping vets and raising funds.

I then spent many years doing voluntary work in schools and receiving many awards, starting with Head Start and then three different schools. Making costumes for plays, publishing the kids' personal classroom books, fluoride treatment for one whole school weekly and my favorite classroom crafts. I would do crafts for holidays and weekly crafts on the learned subject of the week to help what they did learn to stick a bit better. Now, at 69 I set up to write a romance story, adding community needs and ideas with it.