Haynes are honored as ML 'Senior Volunteers' for '19

MEDICAL LAKE — Gene and Carol Haynes were honored as the “Senior Citizen Volunteers of the Year” by the Kiwanis Club of Medical Lake at their Feb. 15 Valentine’s Day Dinner.

In his nomination of the couple, Pat Trout wrote that ”Both volunteer everywhere at senior meals with anything that needs to be done.”

Gene Haynes, 88, cooks and fetches anything that is asked for before the meal. Carol, 85, sets the tables and vacuums the floors. In addition, Carol also serves as the unofficial greeter and “Always senses who needs cheering up and who needs comforting,” the application noted.

Both are memb...