Time on your hands? Volunteer Opportunities!!

If you have a volunteer opportunity to share with the community email Sarah at sarah@921wvtk.com!


HOPE Food Shelf help needed!

A couple of people are needed who can volunteer a few hours a week on a regular basis to work in the Food Shelf. Potential volunteers for this must be physically fit, able to lift 25 pounds on a regular basis, and must be able and willing to carefully follow detailed instructions. Training provided, and volunteers can get a discount at the RetroWorks store. To inquire, email Jeanne Montross (JMontross@hope-vt.org) with subject line: “food shelf volunteers”.

Bristol Elementary After School Club Seeking Volunteers

Bristol Elementary School is offering a wonderful enrichment program for its students and they are looking for folks to join them for some after school fun! They are seeking tutors, study mentors, reading buddies and people who might like to facilitate a workshop of their own with a group of students for six to eight weeks. Some examples of workshops their students are interested in include:

· science experiments/discoveries
· music and spoken/sung voice
· knitting, sewing, fabric arts, and handicrafts
· dance or drama
· computers
· foreign languages
· community service
· literature and book discussion

However you choose to participate, caring adults and positive role models are in high demand! Scheduling is very flexible. For more information, contact 388-7044. Thank you!


Senior Helpers needed!

Champlain Valley Agency on Aging (CVAA) is seeking volunteers to provide help to several local senior citizens. A woman in Middlebury would welcome someone as a friendly visitor and a lovely couple in Cornwall is hoping someone might be able to shovel snow as needed this winter. If you are able to help out, please call 388-7044.


Website Designer

The Turningpoint Center of Addison County is seeking a volunteer to help design a website for the agency. The Center serves people who are concerned with issues pertaining mainly to the recovery from alcohol and drug abuse. It offers a safe, friendly, fun and substance-free environment where all people in recovery, their family and friends can go to for socializing, mentoring and advocacy. Volunteer days and times are flexible. Please call 388-7044 for more information. Thank you.


You Can Make a Difference!

Living Well, a small, holistically-oriented, assisted living facility in Bristol, is seeking volunteers of every interest and skill. Volunteers are welcome to help with any of the following: office work, facility upkeep, resident transportation, or spending quality time with their precious elders. Please call 388-7044 for a list of volunteer opportunities. Thank you!


Volunteer Drivers

The Vermont Association for the Blind and Visually Impaired is seeking Volunteer Drivers to transport their clients to various locations, including doctors appointments, grocery stores and monthly support groups in Middlebury, Bristol, New Haven, Brandon and Salisbury. Drivers would be given background checks and receive a reimbursement of 48 cents/mile. Please contact us at 388-7044 to sign up. Thank you!


VARS Seeks Fundraiser

The Vergennes Area Rescue Squad is seeking a volunteer to serve on their Building Initiative Committee. The ideal person would have experience with capital campaigns or building project promotion. The committee meets on the last Wednesday of the month at 7:00pm in the VARS building on Panton Road in Vergennes. If you are interested, please call 388-7044 for more information.


Hospice Volunteer Services Seeks Drivers

Volunteer drivers are needed to transport meals from the Brandon area to the Hospice Volunteer Services main office in Middlebury. The Dinners With Love concept was created by a local caterer who partners with Brandon restaurants to provide delicious home-cooked meals for patients and their families who are being cared for by Hospice Volunteers. Meals need to be picked up from Cattails, Café Provence or Plan-it Sheri Catering between the hours of 2-4 p.m. If you are interested in helping out, please call 388-7044.


Help Families in Transition

Middlebury Community Care Coalition is currently seeking volunteers for the Community at Charter House located on North Pleasant Street. The site offers safe, warm accommodations for families and individuals in need throughout the winter months. Volunteers are needed to serve as daytime or overnight hosts, completing 4-hour shifts, in pairs, at times of their choosing. Volunteer training sessions are scheduled for Tuesday, October 26th at 9:00 a.m. and Saturday, October 30th at 10:00 a.m. Please call 388-7044 for more information.


Seeking Meals On Wheels Drivers for Bristol Route
Do you have an hour to donate once or twice per month? If so, please consider becoming a Meals On Wheels volunteer in Bristol. Our drivers deliver warm smiles and hot meals to their elderly neighbors who are no longer able to cook for themselves. Teams are welcome too! Perhaps your business would like to rotate employees through once per month? Or maybe you’d like to spend time with your best friend or young child? You’re welcome to deliver the meals together! Call Serena at 388-7044 for more information. Thank you!


Basic Reading Instructors
Vermont Adult Learning, the state’s leading nonprofit provider of literacy and adult education services, is looking for experienced reading teachers who can teach basic reading to adults. The ideal volunteer would have training in the Wilson Reading System or Orton Gillingham method. Currently we have students in need of teachers in Vergennes and Middlebury. Time commitment: 2-4 hours per week.Please call RSVP at 388-7044 to volunteer. Thank you!


Driver’s Permit Tutor
Help a student study for and pass the driver’s permit test. Using the Vermont Driver’s Manual, the volunteer would help the student prepare to take the driver’s permit test. Time commitment: 1-2 hours a week. Please call RSVP at 388-7044 to volunteer. Thank you!


Recycling Center Volunteers

The Town of Starksboro needs volunteers to help out at the town garage on the 1st and 3rd Saturdays of the month between the hours of 8-11 a.m. If you are interested, please call Serena at 388-7044. Thank you!


Share Your Home, Change the World. Host a Youth For Understanding exchange student

Imagine welcoming a young person from Brazil, Japan, Germany, or one of over 60 other countries into your family. Now everyday experiences take on a new and exciting twist – American traditions gain deeper meaning as you share them with your new son or daughter. Call us at 1.866.4.YFU.USA or visit our website at www.yfu-usa.org to learn how you can become a Youth For Understanding host family.


Seeking Volunteer Drivers!!
The Addison County Farm Worker Coalition is setting up a transportation network called the Amistad (friendship) Program to provide much needed transportation assistance to migrant workers and their families working on our local dairy farms. We need people who could drive folks to medical appointments, grocery shopping, religious services and social gatherings. Some knowledge of Spanish is helpful, but not necessary. Hours when help is needed would be mostly in the evenings or on weekends. If you would like to volunteer or want more information, please call Serena at 388-7044.


Volunteers Needed!

John Graham Shelter is serving more homeless families and individuals than ever before and are seeking volunteers to help out by providing residents with rides from time-to-time, either to go to doctor's appointments, to look for work, or to find or move into permanent housing. Also needed: volunteers to serve as friendly visitors and mentors. If you are a mature, kind adult with a safe car and a clean driving record, please call 388-7044.


Volunteers Provide HOPE!

Helping Overcome Poverty’s Effects is seeking volunteers for in three specific areas: 1) sorting clothing, 2) sorting and cleaning donated items in the warehouse and 3) serving as front desk help. If you are interested in helping out, please call Serena at 388-7044. Thank you.


Do you love to cook?

Are you willing to help with the dishes?! Elderly Services is looking for a volunteer to help out with kitchen prep work any weekday afternoon from 3-5 p.m. If you enjoy chopping vegetables and feel passionately about feeding people good food, please give RSVP a call at 388-7044.


Seeking Meals On Wheels Drivers for Middlebury Route

Do you have an hour and a half to donate once or twice per month? If so, please consider becoming a Meals On Wheels volunteer in Middlebury. Our drivers deliver warm smiles and hot meals to their elderly neighbors who are no longer able to cook for themselves. Teams are welcome too! Perhaps your business would like to rotate employees through once per month? Or maybe you’d like to spend time with your best friend or young child? You’re welcome to deliver the meals together! Call Serena at 388-7044 for more information. Thank you!


Seeking Mitten Knitters!

In honor of last week’s invigorating snow storm, the Warm Hearts/Warm Hands program is seeking volunteers who love to knit! The Vermont Yarn Company is generously sponsoring this collaboration by supplying the pattern, donating the yarn and providing the felting expertise. Knitters will create beautiful, warm, hand-made mittens which will be donated to local elementary schools. Please call Serena at 388-7044 to sign up. Thank you!


Yarn and Fleece Still Needed!

We are still looking for donations of knitting yarn and fleece. Now we need to clarify…After placing our last ad, we received several offers of beautiful fluffy sheep skins, but our ladies are knitters…not shearers, carders or spinners! So we’d like to respectfully clarify that we’re seeking the material kind of fleece (to make into hats and mittens) – NOT the wool kind!! Please call Bonnie if you have any to spare – thank you!


Do you have experience with computers?

Would you like to share your knowledge with an adult who is learning to use a computer? Vermont Adult Learning, the leading provider of adult education services statewide and a member of the Learning Works network, is looking for volunteer computer instructors to help students one-on-one for a few hours each week in our computer lab in Middlebury. Teaching materials are provided. Please call Serena at 388-7044 for more information.


Volunteer to Promote Respect and Understanding

Speak Up! Addison County is a dynamic, inclusive, volunteer-run group that meets weekly to promote self-advocacy and disability awareness. The group members and their Allies work together to develop leadership skills, actively involve themselves in their community and have fun!


Speak Up! is currently seeking volunteers to serve as Mentors, Skill Building Instructors, PR or Legal Advisors (to help complete 501(c)3 application), Web Page Designers or as members of the Fundraising or Community Outreach Committees. Please call Serena at 388-7044 for more information.
N.B. Several Speak-Up! members competed at last week’s Special Olympics Vermont Winter Games. Congratulations to all the athletes and thank you to the wonderful volunteers who helped make the event a success!


Shop Assistant

Junebug Mother and Child is seeking volunteers to help sort, price and hang clothing for two hours a week. The resale store sells clothing and related items for kids (to size 10) and expectant mothers and is located in the Star Mill in Middlebury. All proceeds go to programs benefitting local mothers and children. Please call Serena at 388-7044 for more information.


HOME ENERGY VISIT Volunteers Needed

Middlebury is partnering with Efficiency Vermont to bring a new energy-saving program to local households. Its Vermont Community Energy Mobilization (VCEM) program is a volunteer program designed to help residents save money and energy in their homes. Attend their free volunteer training to learn how to conduct home energy visits to help your neighbors and friends save energy.


ENJOY A DELICIOUS MEAL WHILE YOU VOLUNTEER!

The Middlebury Community Lunch and Supper Programs are seeking volunteers to help out during the next several months. Lunches are served at the Charter House and Suppers at the Congregational Church. Tasks include setting up buffet tables, simple food preparation, and clean-up. Volunteers are welcome to sign up for once-a-week, once-a-month or something in between. Please call Serena at 388-7044 if you are interested. Thank you! Info: http://www.volunteermatch.org/search/org35822.jsp.