Citizen of the Week: Arthur Armayor

Published 10:32 pm Friday, August 24, 2007

Arthur Armayor volunteers with at least two organizations on top of his regular sales job hawking Fuller Brush cleaning goods.

Karen Weaver, director of Whitfield County Meals on Wheels, said Armayor has volunteered with the United Way agency for at least 15 years. He delivers meals to 16 households on his route.

Weaver said Armayor, a member at the First Church of the Nazarene, also volunteers with DOC-UP, the Dalton Organization of Churches United for People.

“He’s worked with DOC-UP probably as long as he has with Meals on Wheels,” Weaver said.

Betty Brant is director of that program.

“I’ve been here 10 years and he was here before I came,” Brant said. “I’m not sure that he’s not one of the first that started volunteering and DOC-UP has been in existence 20 years.”

As a volunteer with DOC-UP, Armayor “interviews the clients, documents their needs and tries to help them any way he can,” she said.

After the interviews, he assists people in need with getting funds to help them pay their bills or negotiates with utility companies and landlords asking them to ease up on those having problems, Brant said.

There are other behind the scene duties Armayor could perform with DOC-UP but he prefers to work with the clients, she said.

For his volunteer efforts helping those in the Dalton area in need, The Daily Citizen names Arthur Armayor Citizen of the Week.