[Volunteers] OVP Weekly Volunteer Opportunity E-mail (09/03/03):

[Brian Stephen Dubina]

Good Afternoon!

Table of Contents:

1. Soccer Coaches --Urbana Park District
2. FEED THE WORLD! -- Eastern Illinois Foodbank
3. Environmental Clean-Up -- Sixth Annual Salt Fork River Clean-Up
4. Support People Living With AIDS --  Eastern Illinois Foodbank
5. Be A Tutor -- Edison Middle School
6. Special Olympics -- Bowling Tournament

VOLUNTEER FAIR THIS WEEK!!! Come and learn of new ways you can change the 
Champaign-Urbana community.
Friday September 5 
Illini Union Rooms ABC
10am – 2pm

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1. Urbana Park district needs 5-10 volunteers to coach their youth soccer 
program starting as soon as possible. Contact Jeff at 344-9583 or by email 
jtcollier at urbanaparks.org.


2. Eastern Illinois Foodbank (EIF) is looking for volunteers to pick Roma 
tomatoes from an organic transition experiment test plot. Volunteers will be 
organized over the next few weeks to pick the remaining crop as it ripens to 
be distributed to our member organizations. EIF serves 14 counties with 62,000 
people living in poverty. Our agencies serve over 5500 needy people weekly. 
This generous donation of freshly picked tomatoes will provide a healthy and 
nutritious addition to the products available to our clients. To be placed on 
the volunteer list for this project contact Beth Hewing by email at 
bahewing at eifoodbank.org or by phone at 217-328-3663 x 20. She will contact 
volunteers when picking dates and times have been set.


3. Volunteers of all ages are needed on October 4th, 2003 to clean up the Salt 
Fork River, one of Champaign County's best recreational resources.  You can 
BYOC (Bring Your Own Canoe) or just bring yourself and some gloves to help 
collect cans, bottles, fishing gear and buckets of other debris from the Salt 
Fork's banks and from along Homer Lake and Collins Pond.  FREE t-shirts will 
be given out (as long as supplies last).  Afterwards, stay and enjoy 
refreshments and a drawing for prizes, all donated by local businesses
For more information contact: Lisa Fitzgerald at info at prairierivers.org or 
call 217.344.2371
Salt Fork Forest Preserve
2573 South Homer Lake Road (near Homer, IL)
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 4TH, 2003
8:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.


4. Twice a month, (the 2nd and 4th Wednesdays) the Greater Community AIDS 
Project  (GCAP) stocks a store located within the Eastern Illinois Foodbank 
where clients who have HIV/AIDS come to shop.  We are in need of 6 volunteers 
on shopping days to help stock the shelves prior to shopping time and then to 
monitor the shelves for re-stocking as the clients go through.  Also, 
volunteers may be asked to help clients carry grocery boxes to their cars.  
The hours the volunteers are needed are from 3:00 p.m. to about 6:30 p.m.  It 
is imperative to have at least 3 volunteers available at the 3:00 time slot, 
as that is when the majority of the shelf stocking takes place.  Volunteers 
may work for an hour or the whole shift if they desire.  The Eastern Illinois 
Foodbank is located at 2405 North Shore Dr. in Urbana.  Take Lincoln Ave. 
north over I-74.  Turn left on the frontage road.  The first right is North 
Shore Dr.  The Foodbank is a large metal building on the left.
Call Ray or Jo at GCAP to volunteer.  351-2437 or e-mail at gcap at shout.net


5.  Tutors are needed for children in 6th through 8th grades attending Edison 
Middle School.  Edison is located on the corner of Green and State in 
Champaign. For more information call Trevor Kampfl at 351-3774


6. Volunteer at the Special Olympics -- Area 8 Bowling Tournament.
Assist athletes on the lanes; keep game scores; present awards... Takes
place on September 7th from 8am to 5pm. Contact Georgeann Kulton
(217)355-1750 if you want to join the fun at G T Western Bowl.


Reminder once again . . .
VOLUNTEER FAIR THIS WEEK!!! Come and learn of new ways you can change the 
Champaign-Urbana community.
Friday September 5, Illini Union Rooms ABC, 10am – 2pm

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for 250+ others.

Tell them the Office of Volunteer Programs sent you,

--Sascha Meinrath and Brian Dubina
Office of Volunteer Programs

Phone#: 333-7424
E-mail: ovp at uiuc.edu
Office: 277 Illini Union (in the RSO complex)
Website: www.union.uiuc.edu/ovp

Brian Dubina
Major: Leisure Studies (Parks and Natural Resource Management)
Minor: French

                "Man does not live on bread alone,
       but on every word that comes from the mouth of God."
                         -Matthew 4:4 NIV