BURLINGTON, Vt. -
Started by then President-Elect Barack Obama in 2009. The National Day of Service has stuck around for another term but it's not on partisan lines.
"This really has nothing to do with politics," Chittenden County's National Day of Service organizer Anna Niemiec said.
"This really has to do with getting people connected to do service in their community."
Which is what we found at the food drive in Monkton, VT. Where names on a volunteer list meant more than signing up but pitching in.
And at the Champlain Senior Center where a paint job that originally had only fourteen commitments turned into much much more.
"I think we had 45 but it was 43 that we had out here painting at one time," Senior Center Director Bonnie Campono said.
The organizers were honest in that some of the volunteers came from Re-elect President Obama email lists but what they had not counted on moving forward.
"Undoubtedly people brought friends," Campono said.
Two volunteers at Habitat for Humanity ReStore summed up best together.
"I think we can go on in on a nonpartisan basis and everybody group together and do something good for the community," UVM teacher and volunteer Mary Cox said.
"I just thought it was a cool thing they were using their resources to get people to do community service," UVM student and volunteer Connor Ferrara said.
