Tag Archives: volunteers

Veteran photojournalist is picture of Lincolnwood citizen

By admin | Published: August 28, 2012

  BY NATALIE HAYES | Contributor August 27, 2012 8:11AM storyidforme: 35013808 tmspicid: 12901654 fileheaderid: 5961180 Updated: August 28, 2012 8:35AM LINCOLNWOOD — Retired photojournalist and 45-year Lincolnwood resident Steve Lasker has watched some of Chicago’s most historically significant events unfold through the lens of his camera. But after nearly five decades spent chasing big [...]

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49 Writers: Lucian Childs: Why I Write Short Stories

By admin | Published: August 8, 2012

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Dream big this summer — read!

By admin | Published: June 23, 2012

At Your Library by Kathleen Whalin June 13, 2012 4:01 PM Like the rest of our seacoast community, the rhythm of life changes at the library in the summer. we are busier than we are during the other seasons, welcoming, as we do, not only our year-round library users but also York’s summer residents and [...]

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Missionary videos, a Bible video and a Hunger Games parody video

By admin | Published: June 5, 2012

Service video: Church-service missionaries are “Happy to Serve” in the bishop’s storehouse, as depicted in this new Mormon Messages video. Did you know that, as one missionary explains, “We use 600 to 1,000 hours of volunteer labor, including the church-service missionaries, every month. And we always need more”? Wow! Get a peek inside the bishop’s [...]

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Volunteers transcribe books into Braille

By admin | Published: May 9, 2012

PHOENIX – For almost 50 years, a group of valley volunteers has been transcribing books into Braille for people who are blind. The work that these volunteers are doing is really impressive. they spend hundreds of hours reading books and then transcribing them word by word, if not sound by sound, into a complex Braille [...]

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Volunteers Find New Ways to Put Their Helping Hands to Work

By admin | Published: May 3, 2012

Download this story as a PDF FAITH LAPIDUS: I’m Faith Lapidus. BOB DOUGHTY: And I’m Bob Doughty with EXPLORATIONS in VOA Special English. Today we tell about interesting and sometimes unusual work provided by volunteers across the world. FAITH LAPIDUS: There is an old saying about volunteer work that goes like this: “No one can [...]

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TED 2012 – a story worth telling?

By admin | Published: March 5, 2012

2 March 2012 last updated at 09:59 ET Share this page by Jane Wakefield Technology reporter, TED 2012, Los Angeles One of this year's most popular speakers was Scooter from the Muppets Everyone in LA has a story to tell and TED's is more interesting than most. It has grown from a niche conference on [...]

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From Carrigstown to Calcutta

By admin | Published: January 12, 2012

Generosity is even more important during hard times, and almost nobody has it as hard as Kolkata’s Chaulgola community, Fair City’s Aoibhin Garrihy tells Harry Guerin. While wallets and weighing scales may now be reeling from the trauma inflicted in December, isn’t it funny how the most miserable time of the year can do wonders [...]

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Advocates for children wield power

By admin | Published: January 1, 2012

It’s a rare privilege to help children stuck between a troubled family life and an overburdened court system that’s trying to find them a stable home, say volunteers who work as court-appointed special advocates. “There’s nowhere else in our legal system where it opens its doors and says to a trained volunteer, “What do you [...]

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Number of homeless Baldwin County children triples from last Christmas

By admin | Published: December 25, 2011

Volunteers prepare for the 2010 Point in Time count of homeless individuals in Baldwin County. Since last year, the number of homeless children in Baldwin County has tripled. (Press-Register file photo) ROBERTSDALE, Alabama — the Christmas story in the Bible begins with a family with no place to stay and, in an increasing number of [...]

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