MIDDLETOWN, OH (FOX19) - National Volunteer Week 2011, Celebrating People in Action, honors those who dedicate themselves to taking action and bettering their communities. It’s also about inspiring, recognizing and encouraging people to seek out imaginative ways to engage in their communities — to put themselves at the center of social change.

Sponsored by Points of Light Institute and HandsOn Network—the nation’s largest volunteer network—National Volunteer Week was established in 1974 and has grown exponentially each subsequent year, with literally thousands of volunteer projects and special events scheduled throughout the week. With the second year anniversary of the Edward M. Kennedy Serve America Act, the creation of the Volunteer Generation Fund and the resonant call to serve from the President, this year will be even more energizing and inspiring.

Throughout the week of April 10 -16 schools will celebrate their volunteers.

FOREST PARK, OH (FOX19) - Rehearsal have begun for this year’s Winton Woods Middle School music show, MASSABILITY 2011: In Memory of Michael Jackson, which will take place in the school auditorium on Wednesday, March 23 and Thursday, March 24 at 7:30 p.m.

“Seventh and eighth grade students have been preparing after school and on weekends,” said Winton Woods Middle School choir director Janna Frank. The show will present renditions of: “I Want You Back,” “I’ll Be There,” “The Way You Make Me Feel,” “I Just Can’t Stop Loving You,” “Man In the Mirror,” “Human Nature,” “You Are Not Alone,” “Say Say Say,” “Smooth Criminal,” “Rockin’ Robin,” “We Are the World,” and “Thriller.” Feature soloists are Simone Anthony, Nick Purdin, Delaney Linedman, Aujah Taylor, Alex Kuhn, Anna Clark, Ryan Capla, Erezi Ikeneku, Kamiy Bomar, and Iziah McCoy.