submitted by Dave Russell, RiverLink Director of Volunteer Services
We hope you all are having great holidays and enjoyed our white Christmas. As we start the new year, RiverLink has several volunteer opportunities coming up.
Special Events Committee - We need some help organizing our big events for 2011. We have a donor party coming up in February, so we're a little behind. I'll be working with several RiverLink boardmembers on this one, but we want some community input and help. If you enjoy or have experience in planning, this would be a good opportunity to help out. We'll have a meeting sometime in early January to talk about what we will do in 2011.
Painting - Our information kiosks at the Labyrinth site and the Sculpture Plaza need a coat of paint. We're still having some ongoing discussions about what color, whether to brush or spray it on, etc., but we should have that worked out soon. A volunteer would be working with me to remove the glass and our informational sign and paint the wood. We'd like to get this done after a series of dry, warm days (wishful thinking?) sometime in January.
Stone totin' - Now that the Labyrinth is complete, we have some leftover stones on the property that we want to move over to the Sculpture Plaza. We have my Subaru to do the heavy lifting, but I'd love some well-muscled company to help. Rocks are heavy. There's also some brush over at the Sculpture Plaza that we might dispose of.
Lockwashers - As part of the OIA workday back in October, we bought 6 wheelbarrows. Much to our surprise, they didn't have lockwashers on the bolts and the nuts are dropping like wasps in a pyrethrum storm. I hope to rig up a cordless drill or two to make nut removal fast and easy, so hopefully it won't be an afternoon of loosening and tightening with a wrench. No specific date on this, just sometime before the Spring thaw.
Office help - We still have our scanning project going on, though thanks to some dedicated volunteers we have made real progress. We could still use some help with that. Also, we are taking an inventory of files in our offices to get better organized. Both of these tasks call for some basic computer skills, and in the case of the file organization, some knowledge of Microsoft Excel. It's pretty simple and we can train.
Thanks for the time and talent you all donated to us in 2010, and we look forward to an awesome 2011. Let me know if you have the time and inclination to take on any one (or two!) of these tasks, and we'll work out some dates. I can be reached at (828) 252-8474, ext. 11 or dave@riverlink.org.
Have a happy New Year and stay safe!
Dave Russell
RiverLink Director of Volunteer Services
(828) 252-8474, ext. 11
Special Events Committee - We need some help organizing our big events for 2011. We have a donor party coming up in February, so we're a little behind. I'll be working with several RiverLink boardmembers on this one, but we want some community input and help. If you enjoy or have experience in planning, this would be a good opportunity to help out. We'll have a meeting sometime in early January to talk about what we will do in 2011.
Painting - Our information kiosks at the Labyrinth site and the Sculpture Plaza need a coat of paint. We're still having some ongoing discussions about what color, whether to brush or spray it on, etc., but we should have that worked out soon. A volunteer would be working with me to remove the glass and our informational sign and paint the wood. We'd like to get this done after a series of dry, warm days (wishful thinking?) sometime in January.
Stone totin' - Now that the Labyrinth is complete, we have some leftover stones on the property that we want to move over to the Sculpture Plaza. We have my Subaru to do the heavy lifting, but I'd love some well-muscled company to help. Rocks are heavy. There's also some brush over at the Sculpture Plaza that we might dispose of.
Lockwashers - As part of the OIA workday back in October, we bought 6 wheelbarrows. Much to our surprise, they didn't have lockwashers on the bolts and the nuts are dropping like wasps in a pyrethrum storm. I hope to rig up a cordless drill or two to make nut removal fast and easy, so hopefully it won't be an afternoon of loosening and tightening with a wrench. No specific date on this, just sometime before the Spring thaw.
Office help - We still have our scanning project going on, though thanks to some dedicated volunteers we have made real progress. We could still use some help with that. Also, we are taking an inventory of files in our offices to get better organized. Both of these tasks call for some basic computer skills, and in the case of the file organization, some knowledge of Microsoft Excel. It's pretty simple and we can train.
Thanks for the time and talent you all donated to us in 2010, and we look forward to an awesome 2011. Let me know if you have the time and inclination to take on any one (or two!) of these tasks, and we'll work out some dates. I can be reached at (828) 252-8474, ext. 11 or dave@riverlink.org.
Have a happy New Year and stay safe!
Dave Russell
RiverLink Director of Volunteer Services
(828) 252-8474, ext. 11
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