LAMBERTVILLE: Miller is lauded for community service
LAMBERTVILLE — Resident John Miller has been honored for the innumerable hours of volunteer service he has given to Lambertville.

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Sending home abroad
The North Platte Telegraph HERSHEY – Volunteers with the Hershey community organization Patriot Packages are asking area businesses and service organizations to “have a heart in February” and donate items to send to military men and women serving overseas.

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Common sense to community watch programs
HALIFAX — Law enforcement officers can’t be everywhere all the time. The common sense solution to helping ensure the safety of people and property while reducing crime are dedicated and effective volunteers banded together in community or neighborhood watch groups.

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School volunteers recognized for efforts
School volunteers recognized for efforts

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A day of service in honor of King
For most Americans, Martin Luther King, Jr.’s birthday is a day off from school and work. For a number of members, volunteers and staff of the Boys and Girls Club of the San Gorgonio Pass, King’s birthday was a day to perform service, and a time for thinking of others.

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I need a place in Mesquite or close to it. Can anyone help me? Im wanting at least 8 hours by Friday but i would love to have more and not just have it a short term deal. I NEED 8 hours for NHS. Im cuttin it close but hopefully i can make it!!! HELPP!!!!

Developing Volunteer Service Activities: the second in a series of training videos about volunteer leaders from Hands On Network.

I sometimes feel like a spoiled brat.
And since im a student and wont be working till March.
I’d like to do something for other people.
While im in the Medical Field I feel important.
Being unemployed I feel worthless.
What can I do to help others locally ?

The 2009 Planned Acts of Kindness Award is being presented to a group of volunteers whose extraordinary efforts and volunteer outreach have changed the lives of those in need. The dedicated volunteers of RSVP taletellers read two books weekly to pre-k and kindergarten children in 150 classrooms in 50 Duval County Public Schools. The majority of the schools are attended by children from low income families. More than 3000 children, most likely to be at risk, are impacted by taletellers each week. taletellers do more than just read to children; they bring a new experience to children whose lives are constricted by poverty, crime and lack of positive role models. The RSVP volunteers of taletellers also participate in early childhood literacy activities throughout the community. The help distribute United Way Life: Act 2s intergenerational books, read on guest reader days at schools and bookstores, participate in the Mayors RALLY reading activities and more. When grants or donations are available, taleteller volunteers may leave books for the classroom library or for children to take home. The taletellers range in age from 55 to 98 years young.

Plano’s Links move toward rebuilding Haitian orphanage
Headmistress Sister Yves and some of the children at the Religieuses St. François d’Assise Sacrè Coeur-Preventorium orphanage in Port-au-Prince, Haiti in December 2009. The orphanage was adopted by the Plano Links, who regularly send food staples, school supplies and hygiene items.

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Plano’s Links move toward rebuilding Haitian orphanage
Headmistress Sister Yves and some of the children at the Religieuses St. François d’Assise Sacrè Coeur-Preventorium orphanage in Port-au-Prince, Haiti in December 2009. The orphanage was adopted by the Plano Links, who regularly send food staples, school supplies and hygiene items.

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Memorial for long-time Dearborn community leader, philanthropist, Margaret Pickett Sagan, is Saturday
DEARBORN — Margaret Pickett Sagan, a long-time Dearborn community leader and philanthropist, passed away on Jan. 23, 2010 in Evanston, Ill. after a series of complications due to congestive heart failure.

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News in brief
Here are a selection of brief news items from this week’s paper edition, and possibly a few news briefs that didn’t make it in the paper.

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Stepping up for those serving abroad
MILTON — The office of the American Red Cross of Upper Northumberland County was bustling with activity Saturday afternoon as local youth turned out to prepare special gifts for the men and women risking their lives to serve their country.

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