Have you made your new year’s resolution for 2010? Choose to make a difference and resolve to get involved. The St. Albert Community Information & Volunteer Centre has many volunteer opportunities to choose from and can help find the right fit for you. For information on any of the following volunteer opportunities or to discuss other opportunities, call 780-459-6666 or visit the website www.govolunteer.ca
Take part in the Steel’s Sweetheart Silent Auction, Saturday, Feb. 13, 2010 and volunteer as security where you will oversee silent auction tables that will display auction items and bid sheets. Shifts are available from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. and can vary between two and eight hours in length.
Have fun in this volunteer role and be a part of our local art auction to be held at Hole’s Greenhouse on Saturday evening, Feb. 6. Volunteer tasks vary and include registration/finance positions and wrappers for the artwork. Volunteers receive free entry into the event and are eligible to bid on artwork.
Are you available April 16 to 18 to assist with the St. Albert trade show? Various positions available at this family and community event include admissions desk, ambassadors for the event, stage area and concession maintenance and manning the volunteer lounge, fire exits and exhibitors’ door. Have some fun and meet some dynamic new people. Shifts are flexible to fit your schedule.
Do you have some time to share each week with an individual in need of some companionship? Share your gift of listening and good conversation as you visit the client at home. Choose from one of the following one-on-one opportunities — visiting with an adult individual who emigrated from Egypt, reading to her, teaching her new board games and doing simple crafts — client speaks English well. The other opportunity is visiting with a housebound senior helping her bake, as well as helping with needlework and knitting.
Are you patient, compassionate and reliable? Volunteer needed in the Morinville area to drive two clients to a community day program once or twice a week on an ongoing basis. Program is on Monday and Thursday, drop-off and pick-up is at 10 a.m. and 3 p.m. You must have your own vehicle and be able to transport a walker or wheelchair into the vehicle.
Join the team that walks/rides with pride and purpose. Citizens’ Patrol, in partnership with the RCMP, is recruiting volunteers to help deter criminal activity in our community. Members patrol in pairs, are non-confrontational and wear highly reflective vests during patrols. Volunteers must be 18 years of age or older and must be able to pass a police check. Shifts are two hours each, twice a month.
