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 Vallarta Living | December 2007 
The Powerful Reward of Volunteering
 David Lord - PVNN
Here in Puerto Vallarta there is strong and vibrant community of volunteers that make living in this community very rewarding and full of character.
Each week I write a column regarding the plight or the rewards of being a U.S. Veteran. Sometimes I dwell on the wrongs committed by those in positions of authority, able to decide literally, health and welfare, income and medicine, life and death, for those who have served their Country in uniform.
The fact that the moral principles applied in unselfish service to country are the same as those applied as a volunteer living in Mexico, these unselfish Americans and Canadians are serving as volunteers in Puerto Vallarta and all the surrounding areas.
We are for the most part retired from the activities which consume our time in making a living, but we are far from retired from the efforts to search out the common good for the communities we live in.
Volunteering is the way to enrich our lives and it returns to us what I think is a universal satisfaction that cannot be bought for any amount of money. When we engaged ourselves for the good for others, our efforts focused outward then rebounded back to us, renewing our internal essence.
Your volunteer work may be focused on the children or animals or the community, yet all rebound back to you, rewarding and enhancing all of Puerto Vallarta. Your goodness echoes off the mountains, then blows across Banderas Bay, up the coast of the Pacific into the States and Canada warming their dreary December days and nearly frozen hearts of the families we love.
Click HERE for a list of charities and non-profit organizations in Puerto Vallarta that offer everyone the opportunity to enhance the lives of those who need a little help.
 David Lord served in Vietnam as combat Marine for 1st Battalion 26th Marines, during which time he was severely wounded. He received the Purple Heart and the Presidential Unit Citation for his actions during the war in Vietnam. In Mexico, David now represents all veterans south of the U.S. border all the way to Panama, before the V.A. and the Board of Veterans Appeals. David Lord provides service to veterans at no fee. Veterans are welcome to drop in and discuss claims/benefits to which they are entitled by law at his office located at Bayside Properties, 160 Francisca Rodriguez, call him at home 222-5990, on his cell: 044 (322) 205-1323, or email him at david.lord(at)yahoo.com.
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