Findlay, Ohio, Sept. 25, 2001 —A total of 205 volunteers from all areas of The University of Findlay gave their support to the annual Hancock County United Way Days of Caring last Thursday and Friday, Sept. 20 and 21.

This number of volunteers topped last year’s number by more than 80. Groups involved in the effort included students and instructors from six first-year seminar courses, coaches and players from the men’s hockey team and numerous other UF faculty and staff.

The University of Findlay has been involved with Days of Caring since 1997 and exclusively with the Hancock County Agency on Aging for the last three years, until this year when volunteer numbers were significantly higher, allowing groups to perform service in other community projects.

UF faculty, staff and students who were not doing basic home chores, such as cleaning windows or raking leaves for elderly clients of the Agency on Aging, worked with the local Red Cross or at Camp Glen and Camp Berry cleaning cabins or assisting with a local "field day" for disabled children.