SANDPOINT — It’s another husband-and-wife duo as the Greater Sandpoint Chamber of Commerce named Scott and Barbara McLongstreet as its volunteers of the month for October.

If you don’t know the McLongstreets head down to Idaho Pour Authority on a Wednesday night where you will find them sipping on a beer and chatting with the other regulars. When they are not at IPA, they are busy living up to the volunteer culture of Sandpoint. For their family members: this means helping one niece with yard work and helping the other by babysitting her three children.

Outside of their family, there is no end to their acts of generosity. For the chamber alone, they have helped assemble hundreds of Beerfest pretzel necklaces, directed traffic during the Winter Carnival parade, painted walls at the Visitor Center, boxed T-shirts for the Paradise Fire survivors, served food and made a trophy for the inaugural Mac & Cheese event, and volunteered at the Cinco de Mayo fundraiser for Leadership Sandpoint.

Around the community they have organized a barbecue and silent auction for a child fighting cancer, collected Christmas donations for a women’s shelter, and helped with the Selkirk Association of Realtors’ Giving Tree.

In addition, they have participated in events benefitting Kanisku Land Trust’s Pine Street Woods, Friends of Scotchman Peaks Wilderness, Angels Over Sandpoint, Panhandle Animal Shelter, the Flower Basket Sponsorship campaign and so many more!

The McLongstreets’ personal volunteer philosophy is: “If we see someone in need of help, and we have the ability to do so, we should lend a hand. Whether it be friend, family member, neighbor, a stranger, a group or organization, or even an animal. Help shovel a driveway, rake up leaves, fix things that need fixing, pick up apples, watch the kids, help with a move, clean gutters … it’s the little things.”

Their motto: Be kind to one another. Try to live your life like Mr. Rogers would.

We couldn’t agree more. Great Sandpoint Chamber of Commerce officials said they were honored to recognize the couple as its October Volunteers of the Month.

“Thank you for your service to the Sandpoint community,” they said in a press release.