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Friday, January 20, 2006

Volunteer opportunities - your community needs you!

Being a volunteer is one of the most rewarding and fulfilling experiences anyone can have!  Perhaps you are sitting inside on this cold January day feeling a little lonely and bored.  Get out!  Make a difference!  Your community needs you! – Thanks, Jeff

 

 

-----Original Message-----
From: Jim Boushley [mailto:boushley@chartertn.net]

Jeff,

The local Habitat for Humanity Resale Store has "lost" almost 25% of their dedicated volunteers the last year and a half.  These great volunteers "retired' again. We need additional dedicated volunteers.  We also hope that one of a new crew of dedicated volunteers will also be able to assume the duties of volunteer manager on Saturday.

I would appreciate you getting the following out in hopes of recruiting new volunteers.

Thanks,

Jim Boushley

 

 

HABITAT RESALE STORE NEEDS VOLUNTEERS

 

Can’t pound a nail, can’t saw a straight line and still want to help the local Holston Habitat for Humanity? Then volunteer at the Habitat Resale store located at 301 E. Sullivan Street, Kingsport.  It is open Tuesdays and Thursdays from 9:30 a.m. until 3:30 p.m. and on Saturdays from 9:30 a.m. until 1:00 p.m.  The store is staffed and managed solely by volunteers and is stocked entirely with donations.  Volunteers sort, price and sell the merchandise at the store.  The Resale Store has raised over $1 million that has been reinvested in our communities. These dollars have provided over 30 homes to deserving Habitat families.

 

Please call 378-4760, leave your name and someone from the store will contact you.  If you call during store hours tell the person you are interested in volunteering and they will take your name and phone number. Of course, you can always drop in and say you would like to see one of the managers and tell them you want to volunteer and you may also find a great bargain to take home with you.

 

 

-----Original Message-----
From: Connie Steere [mailto:conniecasa@chartertn.net]

Jeff,

If you can, please distribute this alert to your e-mail participants.

 

Looking for a worthwhile endeavor in 2006?

 

CASA (Court Appointed Special Advocates) is preparing now to conduct its next class to train concerned citizens to represent the best interests of abused/neglected children in and out of court.  Becoming a Special Advocate is definitely a volunteering experience where one can make a real hands-on difference in our community. 

 

To find out more about CASA for KIds, Inc. you may check out our website, user.chartertn.net/casasull, where you can also access an application to become a Special Advocate.  If you would like more information, you may also call Jamie Fuller, Greater Kingsport Program Coordinator at 247-1171, Ext. 12.

 

With CASA, you will not be bored and you are desperately needed.

 

Connie

Connie C. Steere
Executive Director
CASA for Kids, Inc.
317 Shelby St., Suite 206
Kingsport, TN  37660
Office 247-1161 -  Fax - 247-1156
conniecasa@chartertn.net

 

 

 

 

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