Agency: Roger Hill Volunteer Center

Contact: 865-5030

The Roger Hill Volunteer Center announces the 2007 Day of Caring from 9 a.m. to noon Saturday, April 21. Individuals and groups interested in volunteering for this annual event should register now.

Projects may include painting, cleaning, archiving and yard care for local nonprofit organizations and community members in need.

For more information, contact Margaret Perkins-McGuinness or Maggie Bixler at 865-5030, or info@rhvc.org.

Immediate volunteer needs

¢ Bert Nash seeks a volunteer to help the current administrative assistant on the Medical Services Team one day a week, preferably on Thursdays. The volunteer will contact clients to obtain information for forms as well as process donated medications for use in the medication services program.

For more information, contact Robert Bryant at 830-1734.

¢ The Spencer Museum of Art at Kansas University is looking for energetic, enthusiastic volunteers to assist with special events to help with various stages of exhibition openings and museum functions, answer visitor questions, and give tours to children, adults and school groups.

For more information, contact Jerrye Van Leer at 864-0125 or arttours@ku.edu.

¢ Lawrence After School Programs are seeking volunteers for several elementary school sites to tutor students or assist them with homework.

Volunteers are needed from now until the end of the school year in May. Hours for the after-school programs are from 3 p.m. to 5:45 p.m. on all days of the week.

Contact Sandee Crowther at scrowthe@usd497.org for a volunteer application.

¢ Special Olympic Kansas seeks volunteers to help with the Powerlifting and Cycling Competition from 7:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Saturday, April 14, at Haskell Indian Nations University.

Volunteers are needed to help as timers and scorekeepers, and to serve lunches, judge, present awards and escort the athletes.

For more information, contact Amber Hellwig at (913) 789-0347 or hellwiga@ksso.org.

¢ Lawrence Waste Reduction and Recycling Center needs 20 volunteers to help with Lawrence’s seventh annual Earth Day celebration. The event will be from 11:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, April 21, in South Park.

Volunteers are needed for setup at 8 a.m., the Water Festival activity and other Earth Day activities, and/or cleanup duties.

For more information, contact Celeste Fish at 832-3006 or cfish@ci.lawrence.ks.us.

– For more volunteer opportunities, contact the Roger Hill Volunteer Center, a service of the United Way of Douglas County, 2518 Ridge Court, Room 200, at 865-5030 or info@rhvc.org. Opportunities are also online at www.rhvc.org.