July 30th is a fifth Saturday. This means it is Marlborough Junior Woman's Club volunteer day at Furnishing Options! www.furnishingoptions.org
The store at 66 Mechanic Street in Marlborough is open on Saturdays from 9 a.m. to noon. Stop by if you can and bring friends or family. Volunteer tasks may include sorting and bagging linens, sorting and stocking home good donations, helping customers and donors move furniture into or out of their vehicles, cleaning furniture, or escorting customers through the store.
There is a sign up on the MJWC website. See you on Sat July 30th!
Have you enjoyed the lovely flowers on Union Common? Juniors, your help is needed to water and weed our adopt-a-space plot. Please contact Janice with the days you can help out.
A special thank you to Trombetta's for helping us with the plants and to the Hynes family for donating the mulch, urn and sweat equity!
Can you help process produce to help the Veteran's Shelter in Worcester?
Join the Juniors on Saturday July 9th as we help the community. We will join volunteers for Grace Baptist Church's Second Saturday project. Volunteer activities start at 9 a.m. and end by noon at the latest. Projects might include painting, cooking for soup kitchens, cleaning toys or classrooms, moving furniture, hanging curtains, mowing lawns, making cards, knitting, etc.
For more information: http://www.gracehudson.org/missions/secondsaturday.php
The Massachusetts Environmental Police want to help ensure safe summertime activities by offering free boating safety classes. Boat Massachusetts 2011 will focus on teaching participants about boating equipment, as well as how to operate a boat in a safe and responsible way. The course is available to anyone over 12 years of age and will allow participants to operate a boat legally without adult supervision, and in any state that requires completion of a boating safety course.
The courses total 10 to 12 hours of instruction and locations include Hingham, Williamstown, Falmouth, Dennis, and Marion. There are a total of four classes and all must be attended in order to earn the Basic Boating Safety Certificate. For more information, or to sign up for a course visit http://www.mass.gov/dfwele/dle/courselist.htm
Time has a great article on the proliferation of charities purporting to raise money for research to fight cancer, and how too many of them don't use their funds effectively. Make sure you aren't just throwing your money away. To check on a charities visit www.charitynavigator.org and www.guidestar.org.
The article also mentions several well known cancer charities that deliver more research bang for the buck: Mulitple Myeloma Research Foundation, CureSearch for Children's Cancer, Susan G. Komen for the Cure, and Accelerate Brain Cancer Cure.
Here's the link to the article: http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,2075133_2075127_2075103,00.html
If you are interested in making a donation to the GFWC Disaster Relief Fund and having your contribution designated for recovery efforts related to these storms, please send your contribution to GFWC, Attn: Spring 2011 Storms Disaster Relief, 1734 N Street NW, Washington, DC 20036-2990.
For more information, go to www.GFWC.org.
The Fresh Air Fund provides low income inner city children with a summer vacation with volunteer host families in the suburbs. Children who are on their first visits are between 6-12 years old. They stay for up to two weeks.
The Fresh Air Fund will hold an informational meeting on WednesdayJune 8th at the Northborough Library from 7-8 pm. for more information, contact Anna at remianna@verizon.net.
