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MCES' annual Spring Fling event is a great opportunity for students, parents, community members, and teachers to celebrate spring with environmentally themed crafts, activities, healthy food, and the opportunity to improve our school grounds and garden. This year will be especially important as we have a new courtyard that the teachers really want to turn into an outdoor learning space. We all feel that students would greatly benefit from areas where they can experience nature with hands-on learning. During the event we will be building raised beds, laying a pathway, and planting new plants in the garden. We will also have an environmental craft activity and food so we can use all the help we can get!

Available Shifts

Shift Name	Signup Max	Start	End
General	no limit	n/a	n/a

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Please join us for a pre-spring clean up and place making event happening on Friday, April 12, 2019 in downtown Sault Ste. Marie. Each year, our local Downtown Development Authority struggles with key projects that would create family friendly space in the Downtown area. This year, United Way and two of it's most prominent programs will take on 2 of these projects!
Volunteers will have two opportunities to connect - 1. through a spring clean-up in two well used alleyways in the heart of downtown and 2. in creating a mural for one of our downtown buildings! The mural will be in paint-by-number style (no artistic talent required) and will become the backdrop for an outdoor reading nook, encouraging families to get outside and connect through literacy!

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General	no limit	n/a	n/a

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Our organization would like to have an opportunity to give back.

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General	no limit	n/a	n/a

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Join the Washington Wild as we celebrate our first ever Earth Day Community Clean-Up! Bring your friends and family as we team up with the local community to give the Burke Gilman Trail and Ballard Bridge some badly needed TLC.

We’re launching from Peddler Brewing Company’s outdoor beer garden in Ballard starting at 11:30am, where Washington Wild representatives will be distributing cleaning materials provided by Seattle Public Utilities, and directing groups of volunteers to the Ballard Bridge and Burke Gilman Trail. We'll be heading out promptly at 12.

Along the trail will be Washington Wild staff and volunteers to answer questions, and collect full trash bags. The clean-up concludes at the MiiR Flagship Store where you can sign up for our raffle giveaways, learn more about the organization, and meet other members of the Washington Wild Community! Don't forget to try a pint of Earth Day IPA - A charity collaboration beer between Bad Jimmy's Brewing Co., Peddler Brewing Company and Rooftop Brewing Company brewed specifically for this event! Try it at MiiR or any of the participating brewery taprooms!

The first 60 volunteers to sign-up will receive a free MiiR Flagship Heritage 27oz Single Walled Bottle at the event. Hot Cakes cookies and drink will be available along the trail, and every volunteer who participates will receive a Brewshed punch card for $2 off your pint at Bad Jimmy's Brewing Co., Lucky Envelope Brewing, Peddler Brewing Company and Rooftop Brewing Company. See you there!

Register Here: https://wawild.org/event/clean-up-the-burke-a-community-clean-up-of-the-burke-gilman/?fbclid=IwAR0wgVZd_Tpxu6vIRCBTVkSURfHSOTxT-m42yxt_bFu7d-S2Tq5a5nsVi08

Available Shifts

Shift Name	Signup Max	Start	End
Clean-Up Volunteer	40	n/a	n/a

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Kansas City's most loved half-marathon 10K & 5K bring out thousands in the community to run, walk, and cheer in support of the foundation's mission of improving the health and well-being in the community by promoting active lifestyles and physical fitness. This year's charity partners are Kansas City Public Schools and Strive for Life.
Hundreds of volunteers are needed on race day, Saturday, June 1 and we also have volunteer opportunities Wednesday-Friday May 29-31. There are roles for everyone from packet pick-up workers, to being the hugely needed course marshals, to handing out water at aid stations, and to congratulating athletes with medals at the finishing line. Many of the options are great for kids so you can bring your whole family. Full jobs descriptions and shift information in available at www.hospitalhillrun.com/volunteer

Available Shifts

Shift Name	Signup Max	Start	End
Expo Set-Up	10	n/a	n/a
Packet Pick-Up, Thursday	25	n/a	n/a
Packet Pick-Up, Thursday	25	n/a	n/a
Packet Pick-up, Friday	25	n/a	n/a
Race Course Marshal	45	n/a	n/a
Aid/Water Station #6	25	n/a	n/a
Finish Line, first shift	30	n/a	n/a
Finish Line, second shift	30	n/a	n/a
Green Team Recycling	4	n/a	n/a

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The goal is to get Kohl's volunteer associates into a developing park in Ames, Iowa to plant trees. This will both improve the park and give the Kohl's volunteers a feeling of ownership/belonging in the park. The Volunteers will work with the Outdoor Alliance of Story County (OASCO) and Story County Conservation (SCC) to plant the trees. Volunteers need to come prepared for the weather with heavy duty walking/hiking shoes and working gloves. Sunscreen, insect repellent and eye protection are likely to be helpful.

Available Shifts

Shift Name	Signup Max	Start	End
General	15	n/a	n/a

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We are reaching out to the community to help us with major yard work needed for our amazing school. We need a few good hands to help . Here are jobs that are needed so far
• Sand and stain front porch and steps
• Sand and stain lower playground structure #1
• Sand and paint lower playground structure #2
• Sand and paint three upper playground structures

Available Shifts

Shift Name	Signup Max	Start	End
General	10	n/a	n/a

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Lowry will be hosting a Community Volunteer Day to renew our outdoor garden spaces. We are hoping to gather over 40 people together to pull weeds, lay mulch and refresh pathways. Staff from Singing Hills Landscape will be volunteering their time and bringing tools to support our efforts. The refreshed gardens will provide a variety of outdoor spaces for students to take their learning outside. Many hands make light work and we hope that you will consider joining us as we work together to provide unique learning spaces for our students.

Recognizing the numerous benefits of outdoor learning and activity, Lowry has begun a school-wide effort to take learning outside and to get students actively involved in maintaining the garden spaces. Every classroom will be involved in planting, maintaining and harvesting the Victory (Vegetable) Garden. Additionally, three Outdoor Classroom spaces (the renewed Serenity Garden, an enhanced Orchard and a new Outdoor Classroom space adjacent to the Victory Garden) will provide spaces for teachers to take their curriculum outside providing real life applications and hands-on learning to state standards. Giving students a clean slate to start with will help get this new program off to a great start.

Lowry has four unique garden spaces that were designed and built in 2010-2012. As with many gardens, the Lowry Gardens have suffered over the last couple of years from a lack of regular maintenance. Weeds have overcome many of the gardens, trees and shrubs are in desperate need of pruning, mulch has decomposed away and irrigation no longer works as designed. While the Victory (Vegetable) Garden continues to produce food for the cafeteria and Farmer’s Market, its in-ground beds are overrun with weeds and the other gardens have slipped away from their former glory.

We hope you’ll consider joining us on May 18 to help us renew our gardens and provide unique learning opportunities for our students.

Available Shifts

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Garden Clean-up	no limit	n/a	n/a

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Pequest Open House is held once a year, it gives the community an opportunity to see the different activities the NJ Fish and Game Commission do for the State. Boy Scout Troop 158 have a food concession at the open house. We will be selling burger, soda, and snacks to the community. We use the money earned to pay for camping trips.

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Saturday	5	n/a	n/a
Sunday	5	n/a	n/a

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We are proud to present a full day event featuring nationally-known author and speaker Dr. Doug Tallamy on September 25, 2019 at Boerner Botanical Gardens. Author of Bringing Nature Home and The Living Landscape, Dr. Tallamy’s focus on the inter-relationships between plants and the animals and insects that need them provides a guide for landscaping decisions.

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General	no limit	n/a	n/a