Sue Teske with her youth advisory council

Finding enough time in the day to help in your community is always difficult but some people make it look easy.

Sue Teske, a Lyndonville resident, tells us where she got her motivation to constantly donate her time.

"I think volunteering is important because in the end. That's where all the important stuff happens. I can honestly say that I get that feeling from my grandfather who helped everybody."

Thanks to her grandfather, Teske, is a woman who wears many hats in her community.

"I'm the vice president of the Lyndon outing club. I take care of a lot of the correspondence or history. You know I schedule the lift operators."

When she's not busy as a social worker or getting her master's degree.  You could almost call her a professional volunteer.

"I'm usually involved in probably three hours a night of some kind of volunteer work."

Driving is also a big part of her day. From helping build a skate park in Lyndonville. Then hustling to St. Johnsbury where she co-facilitates a class for non-violent inmates.

"We have a lot of really stimulating conversation and deep conversation about really heavy issues. Things like racism ageism classism. All the 'isms' we call them the 'isms' in our class."

With Teske you get the feeling that the only thing that will slow her down is stopping for gas.

Teske looking over some notes

"The time when I'm in the most hurry is the time when I have no gas in my car. Gas expenses I consider my donation to whatever the cause is."

In fact as coordinator for the youth advisory council she declined to be paid.

"It just didn't seem right to take a paid position when everybody else was volunteering their time and we're all doing things together."

Teske never wants to take credit for her generosity.

"I feel like there's 100 other people you could be interviewing besides me."

But she is always more than willing to give credit to others who help out.

"There's just no way that any of this stuff gets done by just me."

She seeks no recognition because as her grandfather told her.

"Put the help where it's needed and the reward is just seeing it grow."