Sentences with phrase «volunteers met at»

Volunteers meet us at a mobile location to tend to the animals and to take an active role in the adoption process.

How it works: Every Saturday morning, volunteers meet at our shelter to drive our rescue van (or their personal vehicle if they prefer) with cats and dogs to Richmond, Virginia.

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During the meeting on employee activism, she brings up an issue that recently arose at some stores in Japan, Patagonia's second - largest market after the U.S.. All employees at Patagonia are encouraged to engage with their communities, either through volunteer work or by marching for a cause or hosting a meeting at a store (after hours).

Deena Scott said the man she met all those years back has always been focused on giving back to the community, whether volunteering at their church, mentoring others or helping fold socks at a relief center.

(I'm guessing if I met her she might well be the kind of person who volunteers at a food pantry, runs a business with high ethical standards, sends money each month to an orphanage in Guatemala, and prays regularly for a neighbor stricken with a terminal disease.)

The country was up in arms, the war was on, in every breast burned the holy fire of patriotism; the drums were beating, the bands playing, the toy pistols popping, the bunched firecrackers hissing and spluttering; on every hand and far down the receding and fading spread of roofs and balconies a fulttering wilderness of flags flashed in the sun; daily the young volunteers marched down the wide avenue gay and fine in their new uniforms, the proud fathers and mothers and sisters and sweethearts cheering them with voices choked with happy emotion as they swung by; nightly the packed mass meetings listened, panting, to patriot oratory with stirred the deepest deeps of their hearts, and which they interrupted at briefest intervals with cyclones of applause, the tears running down their cheeks the while; in the churches the pastors preached devotion to flag and country, and invoked the God of Battles beseeching His aid in our good cause in outpourings of fervid eloquence which moved every listener.

So, hands down, the most popular advice is: Look at your own office, attend a LLL meeting at your local library or volunteers house, attend a breastfeeding mothers group at your local hospital or birthing center.

Class representatives volunteer to represent their classes at Association meetings and bring Parent Association news and projects back to the other parents in the various classes.

On the Foundation side, I loved meeting the members who volunteered their time to raise money for the Annual Fund at the SNF booth.

The policy for volunteers is expected to be approved at the next board meeting.

Volunteers interested in serving on the committee can attend an organizational meeting at 7:30 p.m. Jan. 9 at Johnson Recreation Center, 172 S. Circle St.

I love collaborating with our volunteers, assistants and instructors to build our programs; I love seeing our campers» eyes light up when they meet our Futalognkosaurus; I love buying craft materials for campers to turn into gallery - themed masterpieces... but the part of my job that I treasure most is holding the door at the end of the day during Summer Club.

We also have educators in training and volunteer administrative support helping at our meetings.

George Boulet, chairman of the agency, will voice the concerns of his volunteer panel at the Crystal Lake Park District's meeting Thursday.

As such, my children are at home at our meetings and have met many of their closest friends there, as have I. I have met many of my closest friends through volunteering the babywearing community.

Meet new friends and have your questions answered at local get - togethers run by trained volunteer breastfeeding counsellors or educators.

Even though Rosie was doing this on a volunteer basis, she came to our home ahead of time and got to know us, and she even met us at our home when I first went into labor.

In the last month I volunteered, as I try to regularly, at the kitchen of a local homeless shelter; I made a donation to Mazon: A Jewish Response to Hunger; I brought canned food to a food drive; I continued to work toward improving school food in my district by attending SHAC and Food Services PAC meetings; and I hope I increased awareness of various food policy issues through my writing on The Lunch Tray and The Huffington Post.

Beginning at 5:00 am GMT and facilitated by accredited volunteer counselors (LLL Leaders), in more than 15 languages, participants can log in from the comfort of home to join in the conversation at LLLI 24 - hour Global Online Meeting.

Our volunteers meet most Fridays at Heller Nature Center (9 am to noon).

We're only a couple of weeks into the school year and so far it has been an endless stream of communication from the school - don't forget about meet and greet day, can we work parties, can we volunteer at the sale this week, will we attend Parent Education night, do we want to buy school pictures, please remember that all 4 year olds have to buy a school t - shirt, can we send $ 25 a kid for teacher gifts throughout the year, do we want to attend the coffee hosted by the room mom, will we be going on the zoo trip, don't forget that 4 year olds bring their own snack this year, please send in updated immunization forms for everyone, did you fill out the emergency contact paperwork, and on and on and on.

We met during college when we both volunteered at a commune in Georgia, the place Habitat for Humanity grew out of.

Of course, we're looking at an online component here, since the small sample of volunteers I talked with had organized via email, getting a neighborhood rendezvous time from the campaign and then dividing up the area in person once they met.

Rather than meet up at a volunteer office, Sanders volunteers from across the country organized themselves on a Reddit community and collaborated with one another and the campaign's senior staff, said Kenneth Pennington, who was the campaign's digital director.

The prime minister takes a photo with an Olympic volunteer on her BlackBerry phone, as he meets Games Makers at the ExcCel venue.

Since day one, we've been focused on our grassroots infrastructure, with volunteers out there every day to meet with voters and talk about the importance of this election, and what is at stake this November,» Recchia said.

The Rockland County YMCA held its 124th Annual Meeting at the Nyack Seaport to recognize outstanding volunteers and elect new members.

CSEA members made more than one million robo calls (with AFSCME); more than 500,000 live calls and had more 2,000 member volunteers going door to door with literature, Madarasz said, adding: «Not to mention Tom energizing our delegates at our centennial annual delegates meeting and the member education we did for months in our newspaper which goes out to 300,000 members.»

He met with volunteers and paid staff at the opening on Blue Hills Ave. Photo by John Woike [email protected]

Following an overview by Zatz of issues «in the hopper» expected to be the subjects of resolutions at meetings in the near future, Wiegand launched the goal - enumerating portion of the meeting by volunteering to «take responsibility for moving forward with a long - term strategic plan for Gardiner's parks,» based on the priorities expressed by residents in a survey.

The county's e-911 emergency communications system on Golden Hill in Kingston is not only antiquated, charged members of the volunteer Fire Safety Advisory Board at a meeting of the county legislature's Law Enforcement and Public Safety Committee this week, but vendors are now telling the county they won't be making parts for it much longer.

Thanks to the numerous volunteers who keep Ken - Ton Meals on Wheels operating, along with a dedicated staff, the clients» dietary needs are met and receive more than just a meal at their doorstep.

All volunteers will be meeting at one of the Wegmans Locations (Elmira, Corning, Hornell) to Kick - off the morning with breakfast, donated by Wegmans.

The non-partisan group which does its research primarily through the work of volunteers, studied meeting minutes of 16 municipal governments — eight from Erie County and eight from Niagara County — for six months starting at the beginning of this year.

Canvass volunteers also collected more than 1,500 signatures demanding Congressman Faso, (R) Kinderhook, meet face - to - face with his constituents at open town hall meetings.

He met with volunteers and paid staff at the opening on Blue Hills Ave.

The county recruited «angels,» 100 local resident volunteers who would meet those suffering from withdrawal symptoms at police stations and keep them company until they could be taken to a place for evaluation and treatment.

The day before Thanksgiving, a group of volunteers met Manuel, an asylum seeker from El Salvador, in back of the Dunkin Donuts at 321 Broadway in Manhattan, to accompany him to his immigration court hearing at 26 Federal Plaza.

Briefing the GNA at a meeting by the landlords and tenants of the community to introduce a 40 - member neighborhood watch - dog committee by volunteers from Korle - Nkwanta and the satellite communities including Nyerede, Acheampong and Agavenya, he said the move had become necessary to protect themselves.

Youth volunteers will meet at 9 a.m. each day in the Proctor Park parking lot off of Welsh Bush Road in Utica.

Hanna drove his truck across the 22nd Congressional District, hosting seven «Hot Dogs with Hanna» in towns big and small, meeting small groups over coffee, campaigning door - to - door and rallying volunteers at 75 different stops.

In rebuttal, Wilber, among others, stated that Town Board members have routinely expressed their views on pending matters like the RUPCO project, while members of the Planning Board and other volunteer agencies have similarly spoken up at Town Board meetings.

The Alliance met Wednesday near a rock at the center of the 1.8 - acre park, which is the highest point in Manhattan, and handed out information to passersby in the hopes of gathering volunteers to help the Parks Department beautify and improve the space.

At the Cognitive Neuroscience Society 2010 annual meeting in Montreal, psychologist Mara Mather of the University of Southern California and her colleagues asked male and female volunteers to place their hand in ice water, which makes the stress hormone cortisol shoot up.

After graduating in May 2005, Finucane returned to WorldTeach, this time spending a year in the Marshall Islands with the person who would become her husband — Brett Simchowitz, a medical student at the University of California, San Francisco, whom she met in Costa Rica; he, too, was a WorldTeach volunteer there.

When she looked at job ads, she saw that many wanted experience planning meetings, so she volunteered to help plan the TJU's postdoctoral research symposiums.

At the Society for Neuroscience annual meeting in Washington DC last week they announced that while they saw hippocampal shrinking in four of the volunteers, the region grew in the remaining two participants.

You can also try to create your own opportunity by asking your personal and professional networks, meeting employers at career fairs, or volunteering.

Volunteers, ranging in age 40 to 80, were current or former smokers, and met one of the following other criteria: they used oxygen supplementation either currently or in the past, they were prescribed systemic corticosteroids and or antibiotics in the past year, or had been at the ER or hospitalized with a flare - up in the past year.

I became active in student issues early on in my Ph.D. student days when I volunteered to be one of the two student representatives at departmental faculty meetings.