Project Linus

Project Linus could always use kid-friendly colored fabric in 100% cotton or flannel, nice craft thread , and nice quality yarn for our knitters/crocheters–no wool, please.

Project Linus is always in need of help with blankets.We can have individual groups such as YW, R.S., tie quilts for us (we provide the materials). We would love to have kids 5-18 years old draw on 8” muslin squares with fabric markers to make into quilts-they don’t even have to do any sewing. This could be done with a cub scout group, cheer squads or sports teams. , mid-week activity days for the young girls or YM or YW’s group.

Eagle Project Ideas from the City of Richland

1. Remove sod and place landscape fabric, plants and bark along parking lot at City Hall

2. Clean leaves from Jadwin/Stevens triangle

3. Weed rock areas along riverfront trail

4. Clean shelterbelt of leaves etc.

5. Remove and install new bollards along Amon Park Drive in Howard Amon Park

6. Remove chain link fence at Greater Years Park

7. Set new bollards along Keene Road Trail.

8. Installing concrete or rubber tiles around batting cages at Badger Mt. Park

9. Sand and paint sturgeon Cove playground in Howard Amon Park

10. Clean up debris in the Stevens Drive Buffer

11. Install concrete mow curbs at Badger Mt. Park

12. Install fence along Harris and Snyder St in Leslie Groves Park

13. Place sod at Westwood Park

14. Paint Storage Buildings at Badger Mt. Park

15. Construct a ½ circle basketball court at Craighill Park

16. Weed slope at Crested Hills Park

17. Install dog park fencing at Badger Mt. Park

18. Clean & weed landscaping area at Van Giesen

and SR-240

Contact: Phil Pinard

City of Richland 942-7463

e-mail: ppinard@ci.richland.wa.us

Sewing for The Children’s Museum

The Children’s Museum needs help sewing:

1.Costumes for dress-up-Very easy sewing just a hems and a casing. The museum will provide the fabric.

Contact theThree Rivers Children's museum at TRCmuseum@yahoo.com or 543-7866 (KIDS-TOO)

Sewing for Tri-City Chaplaincy Hospice

Tri-city Chaplaincy Hospice needs volunteers to sew memory bears to be given away. The fabric is from a favorite article of clothing, and would be provided by the Chaplaincy.
Contact Joann Smith at 783-741

Sewing for Tri-City Chaplaincy Hospice

Tri-city Chaplaincy Hospice needs volunteers to sew memory bears to be given away. The fabric is from a favorite article of clothing, and would be provided by the Chaplaincy.
Contact Joann Smith at 783-741

Holiday cards for Kennewick General Hospital

Kennewick General Hospital could use little holiday greeting cards for the patients. Postcard size. Decorated with drawing, name & age of child. Could say something like: Happy Holidays or Get well soon, From Bethany, age 6.
(Great Idea for Primary!)
Contact :Brenda Draper @ 509

Benton-Franklin Humane Society

Benton-Franklin Humane Society needs help for their next fundraiser-an annual Crab Feed on Sat., January 23rd 3pm-8pm.

For more information go to www.bfhs.com or contact: Ed Dawson at (509) 374-4235

Telephone volunteer needed: Columbia Indstries

Columbia Industries needs a volunteer to make telephone calls to applicants for volunteer work.

Contact: Volunteer Center
582-0631

Bookkeeper needed

A volunteer bookkeeper is needed for Lourdes Wilson House. General bookkeeping knowledge is required.

Contact: Volunteer Center
582-0631

Youth Suicide Prevention Program

Three volunteers are needed to assist the Youth Suicide Prevention Program.Volunteers will provide community outreach and deliver brochures to community organizations.

Volunteer Center
582-0631

Our Babies Can't Wait

Our Babies Can’t Wait needs 3 volunteers, Tuesday and Thursday evenings from 4:30 to 6:30 or 7:00, to help cook, serve, and clean up dinners for parent meetings and to help take care of infants.

Volunteer Center
582-0631

Telephone volunteer needed

A once-a-week volunteer opportunity: make phone calls for CheckLine to reassure clients and to remind them of medications. Different shifts available.

Contact: Volunteer Center
582-0631

Crafts for the ARC of the Tri-Cities

Feeling creative? The ARC needs Pom-Poms made out of cheap plastic table cloths. Bright Colors for summer camp kids to use to cheer on challenger league games.
We also need signs on poster paper-and Poster Boards that say Welcome Partners N Pals and Partners N Pals

Thanks so much for your help.

Donna Tracy-946-5157 ext 105
E-mail: arcoftricites.com

Yarn Donations Needed

Do you have any Yarn?

Cold days may be almost over here but the Volunteer Center is again in need of yarn for its Project Warm-Up so that dozens of crafters will have ready hats, scarves, mittens and blankets for children next winter.Hundreds of warm articles also are made throughout the year for babies and the elderly. Skeins can be dropped off at the Volunteer Center at Dayton and 10thAvenue in Kennewick.

For more information, or to sign up to be a volunteer, call 582-0631.

ARC of the Tri-Cities Summer Programs

The ARC of the Tri-Cities needs has many needs for volunteers over the summer:

Youth Volunteers to help in summer camp age 11 and up-commitment of 1 week
Teen Volunteers ages 15 and up who apply for our Leader in Training Program-They make a commitment of 4 weeks during the summer to be a camp counselor-receive a $250.00 stipend.

*Summer camp Talent Show-We are in need of a group that would help us with a Talent show for kids during the summer.

*July 28th-Need helpers from 4:30-8:00 for picnic for families with special needs children to BBQ, Serve food, run snow cone machine, run games and activities. Thanks so much for your help!
Contact: Donna Tracy-946-5157 ext 105
E-mail arcoftricites.com

Volunteer Greeters needed

Greeters are needed at Kennewick General Hospital in these areas: Diagnostic Imaging, Information Desk , Emergency Room Lobby, and Gift Shop.

Call for more information:
Brenda Draper: 509.586.5117

Catholic Family & Child Services--Volunteer Opportunities

We are looking for volunteers (any age). Our volunteers choose the services they want to provide and how much time they can devote each month. They assist with tasks such as light housework, laundry, shopping, transportation, mowing, and home repairs. We also need groups for large projects such as, yard clean up in the spring and fall, painting fences/houses, etc.If you would like to participate please contact me!

Volunteers are also needed for Foster Care to College Mentoring program.

LaNeenAtwood -VCS Coordinator
Catholic Family & Child Services 509.545.6145

Volunteer in the Park

DATE: WEEKENDS (May toSeptember)
TIMES: 8am-12, & 12-3, & 3-5pm shifts
LOCATION: Columbia Park (in the info booth by the fishing pond, It has air conditioning!)
DUTIES: assist park patrons with information, hand out water/ice, sell train tickets, run the Courtesy Cart, and MORE!
CONTACT: Katie DeBroeck@ 509-585-4279

Eyeglass donations

From The Tri-City Herald:

For more than 80 years, Lions Clubs have recycled glasses--cleaning, classifying and distributing them around the world.  Children's glasses are especially needed.

For more information, go to www.lionsclub.org.  You can also drop off used eyewear at LensCrafters, Pearle Vision, Sears Optical, Target Optical or Sunglass Hut locations to be distributed to those in need by www.givethegiftofsight.org.

Cupcakes for the Arc

The Arc of Tri-Cities sponsors monthly dances for developmentally disabled adults in our region and is always in need of refreshments for those dances.

Contact Donna Tracy
The Arc of Tri-Cities
946-5157 ext 2 or 947-6090

Catholic Family and Child Services

We could use donations of gently used baby & toddler furniture, equipment & toys to help new foster families to get set up, as well as household furnishings for foster teens who "age out' of care at age 18. After age 18, there is a program called Foster Care to College Mentoring and it's purpose is to match mentors with foster youth who are planning to go to college. Volunteers are needed.

We try to encourage foster families to keep up with turning in paper work (a necessary but monotonous procedure) by holding a monthly raffle. Families get a ticket for each item of paperwork that they submit. If anyone has something to contribute, it would be very helpful (we don’t have a budget for purchasing prizes). An extra special idea would be to offer the use of a vacation home/time share to a family with extraordinary circumstance, subject to the discretion of the donor.

Contact: Pam Mewes
Foster Care/ Program Manager
Catholic Family and Child Services
(509) 946-4645

Red Cross

Office workers are ALWAYS needed for computer input, answering phones, sending out birthday cards to volunteers, working local disasters, writing newsletters, office cleanup, pulling weeds around area, bulk mailing. We also are always in need of individuals that are trained in Community Disaster Education.

Contact:
Daphne Hambrook#509-783-6195Yard

Operation Thank You

From the Tri-City Herald:

Operation Thank You is seeking donations for its next shipment of boxes to troops overseas.

Money also will be accepted, and donations can be brought to Fun 2 Learn, 5215 W Clearwater Ave., No 109, Kennewick.

Examples of items that can be donated inlude clothing, snack items such as prepackaged tuna kits or beef jerky, toiletries, magazines, books, CDs and DVDs.

In December, the group shipped 386 boxes.

Yard Help Needed

Debbie Clark with the City of Pasco is looking for volunteers to help out a couple of families in Pasco. With yard work. It would be nice to help out in our community this way.
Contacts:

827 N Waldemar–Nancy Cook 547-6985
1704 N 22nd –Patricia Sauvageau542-0344
638 S Sycamore –Jeannette Sparks 302-5854

Habitat for Humanity--Volunteers Needed

Construction:

We Need construction (skilled and unskilled) volunteers on-site Mondays, Wednesdays,

Fridays, and Saturdays, 8am-4pm year-round. You must be at least 16 years old for general

construction but we welcome all ages!

Office/Store Support: Office volunteers answer phones, translate for our Spanish-speaking families and assist staff with special projects.

Do you like to cook? Habitat for Humanity has volunteers every day and needs individuals or organizations to furnish lunch for volunteers on the job.

Contact Habitat @ 509. 943.5555

Senior Companions

Do you have 15 to 20 hours per week you could commit to helping other people?
If you are low income and at least 60 years young, you might be interested in becoming a Senior Companion. The Senior Companion Program enlists senior volunteers to help other seniors by providing simple services that enable them to remain independent.
Senior Companions who qualify are paid a modest tax-free stipend and expenses, but their best reward is the satisfaction they receive from forming lasting friendships and benefiting their community.

Please call 509-545-6145 for additional information.

Old Cell Phone?

Law Enforcement Agencies have come together to collect & distribute used cell phones to any community member who needs a 911 phone.

For information please visit: www.donatemycellphone.org

Animal Shelter

The Tri Cities Animal Shelter at 1312 S 18th Ave. in Pasco could use volunteer assistance inside and outside of the facility.

Angela Zilar-Director #545-3740 or

Dan Dotta-Facilities Manager #543-5759

Meals on Wheels Volunteers needed.

Volunteers from the community deliver nutritious meals each weekday to the homebound elderly and disabled people of the community so that they may maintain their independence and qualitryof life.
Our need for servers and drivers to deliver meals grows daily. Whether you drive or not, you can volunteer for meals on wheels. Our volunteers help Meals on Wheels accomplish our goal-delivering meals to the elderly and disabled.
The rewards are fabulous! You will be thanked endlessly, have fun, make new friends, feel needed, loved and appreciated, and know you're really making a difference.


Vanessa Watson
Volunteer Coordinator
SLR, Meals on Wheels
8656 W. Gage Blvd., Ste. 301
Kennewick, WA. 99336
(509)735-1911

Native Grass Removal

Native grasses in our landscaping beds in Howard Amon Park, Desert Rim Park, the Richland Community Center and Trailhead Park that need to have last years growth cut off and bagged. The bags can be left and we will pick them up. We can also provide the bags.

Phil -City of Richland
Parks and Recreation
942-7463

Valentine Bingo and Pie Social

2-4 volunteers to help serve pie and assist with Bingo are needed February 11 at the Kennewick Senior Center. Volunteers are needed from 1:00-3:15 PM. Please call ahead to let them know you're coming.

Contact: Sara Allington
Kennewick Senior Center
500 South Auburn
(509) 585-4345

Mid Columbia Library--Keewaydin Branch

Mid Columbia Library needs volunteers for homework help at the Keewaydin Branch.

CONTACT: Cathy -Volunteer Center
582-0631

Bus Buddies

Benton Franklin Transit needs volunteers who currently ride the bus to be a "Bus Buddy" to help others learn to use the bus.

CONTACT: Cathy -Volunteer Center
582-0631

Community Emergency Response Team

Benton County Emergency Services needs volunteers to participate on the Community Emergency Response Team.

CONTACT: Cathy -Volunteer Center
582-0631

Volunteers Needed!

The Spring 2009 Volunteer Advocate Training for the Sexual Assault Response Center (SARC) and Crime Victim Service Center (CVSC) will be held from February 9, 2009 through March 1, 2009for a total of 32 hours.
The Sexual Assault Response Center/Crime Victim Service Center is a non-profit, United Way agency serving the Tri-cities. We provide crisis services and prevention education for community members on issues regarding sexual assault/abuse and all non-domestic violence crimes .The agency relies on community volunteers to help run its 24-hour hotline and on-call hospital advocates.

For more information, please call Leticia Garcia at (509) 374-5391 or email programdir@verizon.net.


Training will be held February 9, 11, 17, 19, 27, and 28 from 5:30- 9:30 p.m. and March 1 from 8:00 a.m. –12:00 p.m.

Edith Bishel Center--Volunteers Needed

The Edith Bishel Center has a short-term need for a web page assistant, an

ongoing need for a grant writer, and individuals to prepare frozen cookie dough at home.

Contact the Volunteer Center, 582-0631.

Saturday Bingo Caller

If you are looking for a fun, weekend. A Bingo caller is needed for 1 ½ hours on Saturdays-free lunch is provided.

CONTACT: Cathy -Volunteer Center
582-0631