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- How to help: Lawrence Meals on Wheels seeks drivers to make food deliveries
- February 12, 2012
- Lawrence Meals on Wheels is in desperate need of volunteer drivers to deliver meals to homebound community members.
- Construction starts on home for family who endured tragedies
- February 11, 2012
- It will be a place to share meals, spend holidays and track the growth of her grandson, Rocco, without fear of forfeiting a security deposit. Terry Smith and her three adult children are the recipients of the newest Habitat for Humanity house.
- How to help: Small World needs help for its smallest charges
- February 6, 2012
- Small World is in immediate need of volunteers to provide care and supervision in its nursery.
- How to help: CASA seeks volunteers to help children through court process
- January 29, 2012
- Douglas County CASA is looking for new, dedicated volunteers. Court Appointed Special Advocates are volunteers trained to be advocates for children who have been abused and neglected and are under the protection of the court.
- How to Help: 2012 offers plenty of volunteer opportunities
- January 1, 2012
- Resolve to volunteer in 2012!
- Volunteer following in grandma’s footsteps
- December 31, 2011
- David Vance remembers as a kid phoning his grandmother who lived in Belfast, Ireland, and she wouldn’t be available to talk because she was hurrying off to deliver meals to shut-ins. That made a big impression on Vance.
- Social service agencies adjust to year of hardships
- Uncertainty in Kan. government helped cause ‘unsettling’ 2011
- December 24, 2011
- the 1990s were as much of a boom for social services as they were for real estate. That boom is over, and local agencies are learning to live with less.
- Lawrence Free Community Christmas Day Dinner seeks helping hands, food donations
- December 18, 2011
- The Lawrence Free Community Christmas Day Dinner will be from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Sunday at First United Methodist Church, 946 Vt.
- Kiwanis Club of Lawrence hosting pancake feed fundraiser
- December 9, 2011
- The Kiawanis Club of Lawrence is hosting a pancake feed from 8 a.m. to 10 a.m. today at Applebees, 2520 S. Iowa St. A donation of $6 for adults for $3 for children pays for all-you-can-eat pancakes, sausage, and a drink. Proceeds go toward scholarships for high school seniors and to support youth activities.
- ECKAN volunteer familiar with clients’ needs
- December 5, 2011
- When people struggling with poverty come into the ECKAN office for assistance, whether they need funds to pay their rent or canned goods from the agency’s Just Food pantry, volunteer Nicole Dyke provides them with much more than physical assistance. She offers emotional support born out of empathy. She knows what folks are facing, the sense of hopelessness and frustration they feel when they can’t pay the rent or feed their families.
- Festival of Trees kicks off annual holiday fundraiser
- November 27, 2011
- Local business owners, individuals and community groups got into the holiday spirit this Sunday — for a good cause.
- KU students provide labor in exchange for Habitat for Humanity donations
- November 20, 2011
- A group of 22 Kansas University students were “for hire” on Saturday. No, it’s not what you may be thinking — some recent grads looking for company work.
- Volunteers resuscitate Potter Lake
- November 13, 2011
- Kansas University students removed more than a ton of vegetation out of Potter Lake Sunday, part of an ongoing effort to restore the campus landmark.
- LINK leader earns Service to Mankind Award from Sertoma Club
- November 8, 2011
- Folks who are hungry or lonely have a place to go for food and companionship.
- Lawrence volunteer: Helping at hospice ‘a very special thing’
- October 31, 2011
- Like most people, Betty Shaffer had never thought about what it would be like to die. Then she had a health crisis.
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