WOONSOCKET - Landmark Medical Center held its annual volunteer appreciation reception on April 30, honoring 230 volunteers who collectively donated 21,607 hours to the hospital in 2007. The theme was "Volunteers Plant the Seeds of Kindness." Administration and staff presented certificates of appreciation to each volunteer.

Walter Greenlund, adult volunteer, and Ghislaine Parenteau, Eucharistic minister, were presented the Commitment to Excellence Award for outstanding loyalty and dedication to the hospital.

The following volunteers received service milestone pins for achieving a level of volunteer hours:

4,500-plus hours: Connie Lafontaine.

2,500-plus hours: Joseph Fox.

2,000-plus hours: Elaine Demarjian, Eleanor Demarjian, Walter Greenlund, Lee Riendeau.

1,500-plus hours: Claire Dupont, Walter Greenlund.

1,000-plus hours: Walter Greenlund.

500-plus hours: Madeleine DeRoche, Cecile Grassini.

100-plus hours: Roland Archambault, Claire Arnold, Joan Brien, Ed Clegg, Maryanne Denelle, Carol Grieves, Kayla Grieves, Anita Laramee, Bob Scott, Sandra Therien.

The following adult volunteers were also honored for their service:

Violet Amaral, Gloria Aska, Annette Benjamin, Marie Bilodeau, Andre Bilodeau, Yvonne Boissel, Pearl Bouchard, Darlene Boyle, Dorothy Carr, Frances Delasanta, Dania Dubeau, Kelly Duong, Lauren Fandetti, Jeannine Farrell, Kathleen Gales, John Geddes, Evelyn Giguere, Charles Gouin, Ronald Hammond, Bertha Henault, Moe Hla, Barbara Labine, Mary Lanctot, Patricia Lamothe, Pauline Laquerre, Armand Lefebvre, Philip Levesque, May Levinson, Khonsavanh Manivanh, Rene Marquis, John Moore, Muriel O'Connor, Lauren Penkala, Mary Peterson, Eileen Picchion, James Rainey, Joseph Robitaille, Ann Rock, Pauline Rondeau, Roland Roy, Constance Roy, Ann Sacs, Ann Sellers, Leda Slater, Paul Tardif, Paul Therien, Lori Thuot, Therese Tougas, Roger Ward, Jason Wood and Gloria Yahn.

Eucharistic ministers honored for service were Doris Arcand, Jocelyn Bachand, Joyce Baptista, Pierre Barthelemy, Joyce Berube, Maurice Berube, Thomas Bouchard, Lorraine Bourassa, Ray Casey, Sister Lourdes de Leon, Marcel Desroches, Gil Desrosiers, Betty Ann Drezek, Raymond Duplessis, Muriel Duplessis, Leo Forcier, Frances Howe, Lorraine Krue, Robert Lafluer, Patricia Lamothe, Jeannette Laplume, Marcel Laplume, Irvin Lavimodiere, Charles Lessieur, Cecilia Llamas, Leo Montminy, Gloria Morin, Marianne Mulholland, Jim Mullaly, Ghislaine Parenteau, Lucille Parillo, Maureen Parmenter, Camille Pepin, Julian Pineda, Sister Mercy Ralleca, Eloise Remillard, Thomas Robert, Jean Paul Saumur, Helen Skiffington, Lori Smith, Ann Smith, Madeline Sutherland, Paul Therien, Sandra Therien, John Thuot, Angela Tycks and Elizabeth Walsh.

Landmark Medical Center has an extensive volunteer program, with participants ranging in age from 14 to 90 working in many different areas of the hospital.

The program earned recognition from The Volunteer Center of Rhode Island for 10 consecutive years as a "Model Volunteer Program" and a special citation from the governor's office for its commitment to the "highest standards of volunteer program management."

For information about volunteering at Landmark, contact Volunteer Services at 769-4100, ext. 2345.