|
Leader readers named Dove House Recovery Café’s Jill Turnbull among the area’s best volunteers  For Jill Turnbull its about personal connections.
She spent four years working at the Dove House Recovery Café at 939 Kearney St. in Port Townsend, but even before that Turnbull was no stranger to volunteering. Turnbull, who won second place in the best volunteer category of this year’s Readers’ Choice awards for her work at the Recovery Café, worked three years at the Boiler Room on Water Street before it closed. “Before the pandemic, I was volunteering at five different places,” said Turnbull, who started volunteering in high school, and retired from nursing 15 years ago. “Now, I’m only working at one, but every day it’s open during the week, Tuesdays through Fridays.” Turnbull was interested in volunteering at the Recovery Café as soon as she heard that Dove House planned to start it, and to hear her tell it, every day has been different for her. “Some days have a wild energy,” said Turnbull, who does two of her days there signing folks into the café. “A lot of people want to talk, so I spend a lot of time listening.” www.ptleader.com/stories/recovery-cafe-volunteer-i-spend-a-lot-of-time-listening,190032 Comments are closed.
|