Giving bonds neighbors, creates community

The backbone of a community — what makes it more than just strangers living side by side — is concern for each other.

The bonds that create a neighborhood out of a street block are forged in a sense of responsibility for each other. It’s a feeling of empathy for your neighbors and a desire they do well.

Those are the ties that bind us from the smallest concerns as neighbors all the way up to as a nation. Concern for your neighbor translates to concern for your neighborhood, to your town, state and nation.

It’s what makes democracy work. It’s what makes America different. The idea that a total stranger is our fellow citizen and the empathy to care for them.

That’s why the efforts of VolunTOTS on Saturday, Nov. 15, are so important.

The program inspired more than 100 children to step up