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Youth & Volunteer Support Worker  Misión Mexico Role Description Live-in position (staff apartment / transition houses).  Placement: Five days a week, determined by roster. The post holder will be required to work some evenings and weekends. A minimum commitment of six months is required, twelve months is preferable Reports to: Volunteer & Youth Coordinator Our Vision and Focus Our vision at Misión México is that through a loving, caring, family environment where we focus on education, the children in our care will have the opportunities to grow and reach their full potential.   Misión...

Rockland  MaineUnited States ROCKLAND — The Strand Theatre announces the election of Ellen Seidman as Chair of The Friends of the Strand Theatre Board. Friends of the Strand Theatre (FOST) is the nonprofit organization that owns and operates the 98 year old theater.  Seidman, a resident of both Spruce Head and Portland, is a Non-Resident Fellow at the Urban Institute. Prior to moving to Maine full time, she had a long career in the federal government and with several community development organizations. She has been on the FOST Board since 2016, serving as Vice Chair the past two years....

COLUMBIA - The City of Columbia’s Volunteer Programs reports that more than 1,000 volunteers are scheduled to pick up litter at 70 locations throughout the city this month as part of Cleanup Columbia. Volunteers will work along Columbia streets and trails as well as in streams and parks throughout the month for this city-wide litter pick up event. This year marks the 25th anniversary of the event. The 2021 version of Cleanup Columbia looks different than previous years due to COVID-19.  Instead of a single-day event with a post-cleanup lunch, volunteers are able to select their own...

Article content On Wednesday, February 24, the community will be celebrating its 12th annual Pink Shirt Day. The concept of Pink Shirt Day started in Nova Scotia in 2007 when two high school boys, David Shepherd and Travis Price, decided to organize a protest against the bullies who had harassed a student in their school for wearing a pink shirt. The boys purchased and passed out shirts to the others in their school to stand behind the bullied student and express that they would not tolerate bullying in the school. In years past, The Boys and Girls Club of Fort Saskatchewan has marked the day...

It would be tough to top this well-written introduction to Gila County Sheriff’s Office Sgt. Dennis Newman. In a July feature announcing a prestigious award, the Roundup’s own Alexis Bechman lauded, “he prefers a white cowboy hat to a cape, but Sgt. Dennis Newman is the Rim Country’s very own superhero ... whether he is rappelling out of a helicopter, hiking into Fossil Creek or coordinating weeks-long missions, Newman has handled it all for the Gila County Sheriff’s Office as the search and rescue coordinator.” Well-known to Payson and Rim Country residents, Ne...