People searching for ways to answer President Barack Obama’s call for increased community service need look no further than St. Petersburg College, which offers a broad array of community-based volunteer opportunities.

            Those opportunities include tutoring, art docent assignments, store clerk and office help, GED instruction, special event volunteers, theater performance help, note takers for students with disabilities, resume writer advisors, community outreach specialists and scores of others.

            Besides campus-based volunteer opportunities, the college also offers courses that help qualify people to volunteer their services in specific fields.

            An example is the Guardian Ad Litem program. The college is preparing a program to train volunteers to represent the interests of children who have been removed from their homes because of neglect or abuse.

            “St. Petersburg College has always benefitted from the volunteer services of people in the community who are committed to improving the quality of life here in Pinellas County,” said SPC President Carl M. Kuttler. “Our students have benefitted from those volunteer services, as have all the people of our region.

            “Their services are not always visible, but they are most certainly always valuable, and very much appreciated.”

            Volunteer opportunities at SPC are available at virtually every campus and location. Call 727-341-4303, or visit www.spcollege.edu, key word "volunteer," for more information.