VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES The WA-ID VOLUNTEER CENTER, in the Lewiston Community Center at 1424 Main St., strives to provide individualized volunteer opportunities for those wishing to serve in Lewiston, Clarkston, Asotin, Pomeroy, Moscow and the Orofino area. Information and other volunteer openings are available waidvolunteercenter.org or (208) 746-7787. If you’d like to volunteer, the following spots are available. ï Are you committed to feeding the hungry? A food bank needs volunteers to re-pack frozen and dry foods for distribution, staff the front counter and drivers for morning food pickups. ï Do you like driving and helping the homebound? Senior meal providers need regular and substitute delivery drivers. Drivers must have a valid driver’s license and auto insurance. ï Are you good with people? A blood drive canteen needs volunteers for follow-up duties, including maintaining a comfortable atmosphere,
serving refreshments and talking with donors and answering questions while observing them for possible adverse reactions. ï Do you get satisfaction from cutting through red tape? The State Health Insurance Benefit Advisors program needs volunteers to assist local seniors with Medicare questions. Training is provided. ï Do you enjoy hand crafts? Project Warm-Up needs people to make hats, scarves, mittens and lap robes to be donated to more than 30 nonprofit agencies in the fall. Yarn is provided. ï Are you passionate about helping the less-fortunate? Nonprofit thrift stores need volunteers to work as sorters, cashiers and on the sales floor and to do general cleaning, pricing and other tasks as needed. ï Does your heart ache for vulnerable children? Court Appointed Special Advocates/guardian ad litems needs volunteers to speak on behalf of children. CASA/GALs work independently to investigate and monitor cases of juvenile abuse, neglect or
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is especially needed during Food & Nutritional Service director, and delivered the holidays. Drivers are by volunteer drivers. If compensated for their you or someone you know mileage and can drive as would benefit much or as little as from in-home they choose. meal service, For more inforcontact the office mation, call (509) between 8:30 a.m. 751-9143 or stop and 1 p.m. at (208) by the office in 799-5767 or by downtown Clarkemail at valley ston at 817A Sixth meals@aol.com. St. Volunteer applications and To submit Volunteer addition informaVOLUNTEER Opportunity items: tion can be found OPPORTUNITES Golden Times publishes INTERLINK INC. is a online at interlink is a free public Volunteer Opportunities nonprofit organization that volunteers.org. service pubin the Lewiston-Clarkston works to match commulished monthly Valley monthly as a nity volunteers to people VALLEY in the Golden Times. Its goal free public service. needing assistance to reMEALS ON is to connect Area agencies who main independent in their WHEELS proarea volunteers wish to take part may own homes. Current needs vides daily with folks in our send information to include: home-delivered communities goldentimes@lmtribune ï Individuals and teams meals to seniors, who need their or Golden Times, P.O. of people willing to help home-bound and services. Box 957, Lewiston, ID construct wooden wheelspecial needs 83501. All submissions are edited chair ramps for people in clients in the Lewisfor brevity and clarity, and will run need. Most construction is ton-Clarkston Valley. Hot as space allows. Questions may done on Saturdays. Train- meals and sack lunches be directed to editor Julie Breslin ing will be provided. are prepared by kitchen ï People interested in staff at St. Joseph Region- at jbreslin@lmtribune.com or (208) 848-2241. Deadline for the serving as drivers for the al Medical Center under January edition is 5 p.m. Dec. 17. elderly and disabled. Help the supervision of the dependence in the Asotin and Garfield County Superior Court. Background checks are required. Training is provided. ï Are you good in an emergency? The American Red Cross needs volunteers to serve on its Disaster Action Team. The group serves as the agency’s first-response team, providing comfort and assistance to those affected by disaster.
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