Need help Saturday

This Saturday the volunteer center is looking for some help to cleanup, paint, garden, and stuff to Holland Park. A few weeks ago we went out and picked up trash all over the site - this time we're going to plant flowers, pick up more stuff, and paint some of the equipment. The more help, the better.

Holland park is located on Cass and Albion Street.

It is this Saturday, 12 (noon) to 3pm.

If you come, bring a friend and/or some gardening tools.

Hope to see you there!Also, seniors, don't forget to pick up VolunTEENS applications from the High School office (or shoot me an email to pick one up here at the volunteer center).

Best,

Matt

Stuff.........

So Saturday, evidently, was not a good day for us to meet. Only 1 person showed up to our January meeting. Not a good sign.

Before the meeting, I was very happily preparing things for us to discuss, some handouts on volunteerism (statistics and the like), making lists of volunteer projects, sign up sheets, and I even ordered 3 pizzas because last time we didn't have enough pizza! But alas, I got burnnnneeeddd. Nobody showed except for Jasmine.

So there's a definite problem here. Whoever thought it would be a great time to meet on a frozen Saturday night at 7pm has issues. I propose that from now on we meet AT the High School after school. Does anyone second that motion?

Now on to some Volunteer Opportunities:

Flyers to Hand Out - The volunteer center needs one or two volunteers to pass out information to local businesses. It is just a newsletter and another paper to inform local businesses of a couple WALL MURALS that are going to be done here in Albion by a local artist. Cool stuff - simple task. Will take maybe 1 hour.
Any takers?

AVSO Surveys - The AVSO is conducting a local survey to determine how we can best serve the community. The survey is brief (takes less than 30 seconds to fill out) and we're looking to get feedback from as many communities as we can. I'd like to formally ask any VolunTEENS to take some of these surveys into your classrooms and ask some friends, teachers, etc.. If you could, it would be a HUGE help to us!

If interested in either of the above,

Email me at vistamatt@gmail.com, msg me on MySpace or call the AVSO at 629-5574.

Best,
Matt

Meeting Tomorrow

7pm at the Volunteer Center.

On the agenda:

1.) Parent Night

2.) Cardboard classic

3.) Volunteer Center surveys

4.) Volunteer opportunities

5.) Discussion of "Volunteerism: what it means to you"

As always pizza and drinks will be served!

See you there.

Matt

January Meeting

We'll be having a meeting on January 13th and we'll be discussing "Parent's Night" for VolunTEENS. Good stuff. I'll post the agenda soon.

I hope everyone had a good New Year and a safe holiday and all that jazz.

-Matt-

P.S - Does anyone ever look at this? Let me know if you read this...

Canned Goods

The Albion Volunteer Service Organization is sponsering a family for Christmas through the Albion Interfaith Ministries (AIM). I think it would be great for the VolunTEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEENS to help out. What do you think? Should be simple enough to bring in some canned goods here to the office and put them in a box...

Also, this is a reminder that there is a meeting on Saturday at 7pm. This is a perfect time to bring in some canned stuffs.

See you then!

Peace out.

Cardboard CLASSIC....

We're meeting December 9th (that's a Saturday) to discuss some things. But most importantly, we're going to be discussing the CARDBOARD CLASSIC! Yeeehawwww. Can you imagine us building a LUGE out of cardboard? As Jean-Claude Van-Damm likes to say "I look forward to it."

Upcoming Agenda

Hey everyone:
This weekend we will be doing a Soup Kitchen BLITZ instead of having a monthly meeting. We'll be trying something a little bit different - less meetings, more action! I'd like to start this month strong by getting at least 5 or 6 of us out together to volunteer at the Soup Kitchen this weekend. Soup Kitchen is Saturday from 4:30 - 7. Towards the end of the week, I'll be calling you to recruit you to come out. If you have trouble with transportation, I can arrange that to be taken care of.

I'll keep you posted on here about future activities. For now, let's just start simple.

Peace out!

-Matt-