Tag Archive for Volunteer

Reach Out Sun Lakes reports 312.5 lbs of food and $395 in early September collections

Ellen Engel Reach Out Sun Lakes, a volunteer coordinating group for local charities, continues to collect food and dollars to support the work of the Matthew’s Crossing Food Bank, which serves over 600 needy Chandler families, because hunger does not stop during the sizzling summer months or national holidays. The partial totals for September are…

Big night at the Crystal Awards

The Crystal Award honorees for 2015 are Ron Issacson, Don Hicks, 
Gil Hendry, Elaine Hair, Wayne Divoky and Woody Neiman.

On Sunday evening, March 1, Crystal Award honorees were treated to an outstanding banquet and awards ceremony at Palo Verde Country Club. Over 170 friends, neighbors and relatives shared the evening with this year’s class of chosen community volunteers who have done so much to make Sun Lakes one of the top 10 senior communities…

Become a volunteer

The Gila Crossing Community School located within the Gila River Indian community is looking for volunteers for its FACE (Family and Child Education) pre-school program. If you enjoy spending time with three, four and five year olds, we would love to have you join our volunteer program! No previous teaching experience is needed. An Arizona…

Volunteers needed at middle school library

The Skyline-D5-Gila River Middle School, located in Bapchule (District 5), within the Gila River Indian community (about 12 miles from Sun Lakes) will be opening in a few weeks. We are looking for volunteers to assist approximately 100 students in Grades 5, 6, 7 and 8 in checking books in and out with the use…

Volunteering!

Shelby Lloyd Burnett It is amazing to share little bits of valuable time with a patient, a caregiver and a family as a terminal illness progresses and life ending measures become the new normal. Sometimes that can be singing songs, playing music, listening to music, assisting with notes for a life review, writing letters, assembling…

Reach Out Sun Lakes – September 2014

Ellen Engel In the only August collection of food and cash contributions for the Matthew’s Crossing Food Bank in Chandler by Reach Out Sun Lakes, volunteers collected a total of 291 pounds of staple foods and $10 in cash – a very nice response for a month in which almost everyone leaves town! These numbers…