Volunteer Work

Mercutio · 06-23-2004, 10:17 PM

What, if any, do you do?

This summer, I'm working at the local nature center. I'll take care of the Butterfly house (gardening, working with caterpillars/butterflies, catching cater./butters.), teaching the public about them, help with office work, and volunteer at their big festival at a farm in the fall.

***Ben*** · 06-23-2004, 10:28 PM

I'm volunteering with a local congressional campaign. Steve Brozak is the Democrat running in my district for the House of Reps. I've participated in phone banks, voter canvassing, and house parties.

jerseydevil · 06-23-2004, 10:47 PM

I've taught high school students computer programming and I am on the board of directors for the Princeton Battlefield Area Preservation Society. No one gets paid in the society.

sun-star · 06-24-2004, 08:56 AM

Over the past year I've been volunteering at our local Royal British Legion home for ex-servicemen and women, helping them take part in activities, talking to them etc.

That butterfly thing sounds fun, Mercutio

Beruthiel's cat · 06-24-2004, 10:45 AM

I volunteer at the local Public Radio station. I read for the radio reading service for the visually impared. I've done it for many years and enjoy it tremendously. I used to read articles for teenagers from various magazines, but due to renovations, they cut out the "feature" programming and concentrate more on reading from the local newspapers. One time when they were really desparate for readers, I read the Sunday sports page live-on-air (most segments were taped). That was wierd. I know very little about sports and it was football season -- I know virtually nothing about football!

Well, that's show-biz!!!!

Mercutio · 06-24-2004, 03:56 PM

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Originally posted by sun-star
That butterfly thing sounds fun, Mercutio

I just got back from running around outside in the heat for 2 hours catching butterflies/moths in the meadow areas, fields, around streams, etc.

My supervisor commented on how nice it is to actually have butterflies in the butterfly house (its new this year) when people come around, and I help a great deal with that. Yay!

Nerdanel · 06-24-2004, 04:46 PM

Well, we are a few girls my age who organize athletics-competitions for kids here in my village. We don't get paid.

Hanza · 06-27-2004, 10:17 AM

i voluteer by helping out at my local rainbow unit. where theres a group of young girls (5-7) and they do games and activities. its really good fun.

06-23-2004, 10:17 PM	#1
Mercutio Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: Narnia Posts: 1,656	Volunteer Work What, if any, do you do? This summer, I'm working at the local nature center. I'll take care of the Butterfly house (gardening, working with caterpillars/butterflies, catching cater./butters.), teaching the public about them, help with office work, and volunteer at their big festival at a farm in the fall. __________________ Mike nodded. A sombre nod. The nod Napoleon might have given if somebody had met him in 1812 and said, "So, you're back from Moscow, eh?". Interested in C.S. Lewis? Visit the forum dedicated to one of Tolkien's greatest contemporaries.

06-23-2004, 10:28 PM	#2
*Ben* Retired Ent Join Date: Sep 1999 Posts: 60,631	I'm volunteering with a local congressional campaign. Steve Brozak is the Democrat running in my district for the House of Reps. I've participated in phone banks, voter canvassing, and house parties. __________________ ---Ben formerly known in the forums as bmilder Owner of The Tolkien Trail and Entmoot. Buy Entmoot shirts and mugs!

06-23-2004, 10:47 PM	#3
jerseydevil I am Freddie/UNDERCOVER/ Founder of The Great Continent of Entmoot Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Plainsboro, NJ Posts: 9,431	I've taught high school students computer programming and I am on the board of directors for the Princeton Battlefield Area Preservation Society. No one gets paid in the society. __________________ Come back! Come back! To Mordor we will take you! "The only thing better than a great plan is implementing a great plan" - JerseyDevil "If everyone agreed with me all the time, everything would be just fine"- JerseyDevil AboutNewJersey.com New Jersey MessageBoard Another Tolkien Forum Memorial to the Twin Towers New Jersey Map Fellowship of the Messageboard Legend of the Jersey Devil Support New Jersey's Liberty Tower Peacefire.org AboutNewJersey.com - New Jersey Travel and Tourism Guide

06-24-2004, 08:56 AM	#4
sun-star Lady of Letters Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Either Oxford or Kent, England Posts: 2,476	Over the past year I've been volunteering at our local Royal British Legion home for ex-servicemen and women, helping them take part in activities, talking to them etc. That butterfly thing sounds fun, Mercutio __________________ And all the time the waves, the waves, the waves Chase, intersect and flatten on the sand As they have done for centuries, as they will For centuries to come, when not a soul Is left to picnic on the blazing rocks, When England is not England, when mankind Has blown himself to pieces. Still the sea, Consolingly disastrous, will return While the strange starfish, hugely magnified, Waits in the jewelled basin of a pool.

06-24-2004, 10:45 AM	#5
Beruthiel's cat mystical divinity of Unashamed Felinity Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: New York's beautiful North Coast -- we're all mad here!!! Posts: 635	I volunteer at the local Public Radio station. I read for the radio reading service for the visually impared. I've done it for many years and enjoy it tremendously. I used to read articles for teenagers from various magazines, but due to renovations, they cut out the "feature" programming and concentrate more on reading from the local newspapers. One time when they were really desparate for readers, I read the Sunday sports page live-on-air (most segments were taped). That was wierd. I know very little about sports and it was football season -- I know virtually nothing about football! Well, that's show-biz!!!! __________________ "Never try to out-stubborn a cat!" -- R. Heinlein ~~~~~~~~~ "But I don't want to be among mad people, " Alice remarked. "Oh, but you can't help that," said the Cat; "We're all mad here. I'm mad. You're mad." "How do you know I'm mad?" said Alice. "You must be," said the Cat, "or you wouldn't have come here." ~~ Lewis Carroll ~~~~~~~~~~~ Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana...

06-24-2004, 04:46 PM	#7
Nerdanel Spammer of the Happy Thread Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: Helsinki, Finland Posts: 3,512	Well, we are a few girls my age who organize athletics-competitions for kids here in my village. We don't get paid. __________________ "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known. " - C. Sagan My (photography) website My Flickr page

06-27-2004, 10:17 AM	#8
Hanza Woolly Jumper Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: In my field of paper flowers and candy clouds of lullaby Posts: 1,200	i voluteer by helping out at my local rainbow unit. where theres a group of young girls (5-7) and they do games and activities. its really good fun. __________________ :: there's nothing comforting in change:: Why dont sheep shrink in the rain??

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