Volunteer Profiles
Caroline de Baere
Tam Valley Resident
What inspired you to start volunteering with TCSD?
It all started with Friday night Spaghetti Bingo when my kids were in 1st grade as well as Oktoberfest and Creekside Fridays. We absolutely loved attending those events with local families and friends. It all just felt like an extension of Tam Valley school and my kids had so much fun. Now, it seems like a perfect transition for my children as we all participate in giving back to our neighborhood community and seeing the younger kids having fun at these same events years later.
What is your favorite event to help with? Tell us why…
My children are sophomores in high school, and now you’ll see me volunteering at TCSD events along with them and a group of awesome teenage volunteers at the Crab Feed, Spaghetti Bingo, Breakfast with Santa and Oktoberfest. It is so hard to pick a favorite but if I had to, it would be Spaghetti Bingo. We did my twins 8th birthday there one year!
Please share what you love about Tam Valley:
I love that we all seem to know each other and even if we don’t…. we are all friends that feel like part of the same community. I have found that we are a combination of community members who have just arrived and are welcomed easily into the fold and made up of those who have been here 24 years like me or even better, those who have been here for more than 40 or 50 years.