J-W Staff Reports

Agency: Douglas County Senior Services

Address: 745 Vt.

Contact person: any staff member, 842-0543

The holiday season can be especially difficult for elderly people. Douglas County Senior Services offers Adopt a Grandparent to help seniors through the holiday. The center gathers holiday wish lists from seniors. Volunteers buy at least one item off the list and a grocery certificate. The total donation is usually between $50 and $100.

Another holiday program is the Stocking Extravaganza. Participants decorate stockings and submit them to the senior center by Nov. 27. The stockings will be on display Dec. 2-11, and people can vote on their favorite for $1. All will be filled and sent to seniors.

Last weekâÂÂs results

No families have volunteered to help a child with the Big Brothers Big Sisters program. Families would spend a few hours a week with a 5 to 17-year-old boy for one year. To volunteer, call 843-7359.

Immediate volunteer needs

⢠Volunteers are needed to serve at the LINK Thanksgiving Dinner. For information, call Terry at 865-3985 or 331-3663.

⢠ICAN and Douglas County Senior Services need volunteers to shovel snow for elderly residents. Call ICAN at 749-2005 or senior services at 842-0543.

Salvation Army Needs

The Salvation Army provides a variety of holiday volunteer opportunities:

⢠Volunteers are needed to accept Holiday Bureau applications at the Salvation Army from 9:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. and from 1:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. Monday through Friday. Applications will be accepted through Friday for Thanksgiving and through Nov. 27 for Christmas.

⢠The organization will make Thanksgiving baskets Nov. 22 and distribute them Nov. 25-27. Volunteers can work on the baskets from 9:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. and from 1:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. It will also put together toy shop and Christmas baskets from 9 a.m. to noon and from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. Dec. 9-13. Distribution will be from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Dec. 16-19.

⢠The Salvation Army will have a coat drive from 9 a.m. to noon Dec. 2-5.

⢠They also need two volunteers at 9 a.m., four volunteers at 10:30 a.m., four volunteers at noon and two volunteers from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. Dec. 4 to serve the holiday meal.

⢠Christmas Bell-ringers are needed from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. and from 4:30 p.m. to 9 p.m. Monday through Saturday. Call Rochelle at 843-4188.

⢠Volunteers can adopt a family for Christmas. Call Judy Forney at 843-4188.

For more volunteer opportunities, call the Roger Hill Volunteer Center at 865-5030 or visit online at www.rhvc.org