Kathy Wagner says she’d always wanted to volunteer during her retirement, so after she left her job as a school secretary, she started putting in a few hours a week with the Volunteers of America, Utah.
Several years later, she’s spending anywhere from 25 to 28 hours each week washing clothes, serving meals, sorting donations and cleaning out the pantry at the VOA Youth Resource Center. Over the holidays, she works up to 45 hours.
“I didn’t ever realize how much I was going to get out of it,” Wagner said Wednesday. “I started out thinking I was doing something for others, but I get so much out of this.