Staff Report

RIO GRANDE — Gallia-Jackson-Vinton Retired Senior Volunteer Program (RSVP) and Volunteer Network Center has named Kristy Woodall as its new coordinator for Gallia County.

Woodall, who lives in Gallipolis, took over the Gallia County coordinator position on Jan. 7. In her new position, Woodall is working in the Gallia County RSVP office located in Boyd Hall on the University of Rio Grande/Rio Grande Community College campus. Rio Grande helps to sponsor RSVP in Gallia County.

“She joins Calvin Minnis, the transportation coordinator, in the office,” explained Phyllis Mason, director of human relations at Rio Grande.

Minnis works on a wide range of transportation issues for the office, helping volunteers get to their program locations, and helping clients with transportation issues as well.

Woodall will also be working with Danny Wise, the Vinton County coordinator, as well as Cher Bellar and Judy Potter with the Jackson County RSVP office.

Susan Rogers serves as the director of the Gallia-Jackson-Vinton RSVP program and Volunteer Network Center and oversees all three offices.

As the Gallia County coordinator, Woodall will meet with volunteers, visit the volunteer program locations, apply for grants, handle much of the paperwork needed to run the office and coordinate the agency’s activities in the county.

One new initiative for the RSVP volunteers in Gallia County is to spend time working at the Greer Museum on the Rio Grande campus. The volunteers will be helping to staff the archives area in the museum, so that the archives area can be organized well and kept open to the public during regular hours. The volunteers will also be organizing some special programs in the archives.

Woodall served as a teacher for more than 30 years, instructing students in several schools in Gallia County. During her career, she taught courses such as English, creative writing, journalism, speech and drama at River Valley High School, Gallia Academy High School and several other schools. She also has experience working with volunteers in a variety of programs, including Gallia-Jackson-Vinton RSVP initiatives such as the Grandpals program, which matches up local senior volunteers as pen pals with children in area schools.

“She enjoys working with volunteers,” Mason said, adding that Woodall will do a very good job working with the numerous programs that RSVP is involved with in Gallia County.

For more information on the Gallia-Jackson-Vinton RSVP program, call Rogers or Woodall at (800) 282-7201, or call the Jackson County office at (740) 286-4918.