Hooksett Adult Volunteer of the Year 2024

Over the years, Vickie Desharnais has been a very positive influence in the Hooksett community. Most of Hooksett know her as Miss Vickie from years of her working at the Hooksett Library as a Children’s Librarian. There she captured the minds and hearts of our children with her story hour and summer reading programs. She fostered such an incredible love of reading in our community.

But there is so much more that Vickie has done and continues to do…

She has been a volunteer at a local church teaching CCD and leading the children’s choir, and also was a dedicated Girl Scout leader for many years. She volunteered in the schools with their music department and for the PTA. Vickie is still a familiar face at the Hooksett Library where she regularly volunteers. She also volunteers one morning a week in the Hooksett Community Food Pantry (HCFP) and regularly at the Live and Let Live Farm.

For five years Vickie has been a school marm at the Head School in Hooksett and she recently made a video to promote the historic Head School to local schools and groups. Vickie was on both the Hooksett’s Bicentennial and the Light up the Village committees. Of special note are her current efforts as an alternate member of the Hooksett Heritage Commission where one of her many efforts is helping to write a book about Hooksett’s history.

Vickie Desharnais is a dedicated volunteer in so many different ways. She is a wonderful, kind, and humble person who is deserving of this recognition.

If you’d like to join Vickie and her family to congratulate her at this year’s Hooksett Kiwanis Community Leaders Awards Banquet on Wednesday, May 15, 2024, at Southern New Hampshire University, learn more at https://bit.ly/Hooksett-Community-Leaders-2024