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		<title>Horizon Air Donates Vacation Time to Help Adult with Disability</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Sep 2010 23:58:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aly</dc:creator>
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Horizon Air Employees Cement in Mailbox for Chore Client

During the month of September, the Bellingham Airport is closed because the runway is being repaved.  Horizon Air employees are using the closure as an opportunity to volunteer and team build. On September 1, 2010, about 10 volunteers (including friends and family members of the employees) assisted [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A true connection at Project Homeless Connect</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Sep 2010 21:23:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday, on September 1st , I had the pleasure of volunteering at the first ever Skagit County Project Homeless Connect. I chose to volunteer as a guest guide, and was paired with a woman named Carmen and her two little children; Rodrigo, age five, and Jaymina, only one and a half years old.
Carmen is a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Teens Participate in &#8216;One Week&#8217; of Service</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Aug 2010 17:52:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aly</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Aly Hoover
       Students from several Catholic churches convened at Assumption this past week to participate in community service projects. The program, called One Week, recruited teens from Seattle, Everett, and Arlington to dedicate a week towards making Bellingham a better place. Whatcom County students also participated to benefit their home town. They painted a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>House 2 Home success story</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Jul 2010 20:05:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rebecca</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A success story about the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act-funded House 2 Home Network from the Washington State Commerce Department:



House 2 Home Network — Virtual Furniture BankClient Success Story from Opportunity Council
Sam and Monica came to the Opportunity Council to ask about getting some rental assistance. They had found a place to rent and just needed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A growing opportunity in the community</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Jul 2010 22:32:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Who knew that taking a position at Whatcom Volunteer Center as the Outreach Coordinator would result in funky tan lines, calloused hands and a black and blue fingernail. While my hands may be less than aesthetically pleasing at the moment, I smile every time I think of the project responsible. For the last two months, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Another successful Human Race!</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jun 2010 21:13:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[At 4 p.m. on Friday, June 11 we discovered that our 10K route for the Human Race was being torn up by construction. This is not the kind of news you want to find out the day before a huge event. Not only are there hundreds of race participants, but we spent months tirelessly organizing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Out of School and Out to Volunteer</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jun 2010 16:15:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aly</dc:creator>
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The Chore Program would like to thank the Explorers Club for spending their summer free time to help people in need. On June 12th, this wonderful group of girls spent several hours weeding, mowing, trimming, and raking for two adults with physical disabilities. The beneficiaries couldn&#8217;t be more pleased! One client was in awe of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Serving on the Senior Police Force is Fun!</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 May 2010 20:32:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jodi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It’s an interesting and fun job where you will see a lot of different things.  I especially like the public appreciation we get when writing tickets for disabled parking violations.  People will come up to us and thank us right as we are doing it!]]></description>
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		<title>HAVING A BLAST IN THE PAST</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 May 2010 22:20:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Susan</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.whatcomvolunteer.org/?p=2704</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Whatcom Volunteer Center needs people like you to volunteer to cover one or more four hour shifts on Friday, Saturday or Sunday &#38; holidays through Labor Day. ]]></description>
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		<title>House 2 Home Network receives $5,000 grant!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 May 2010 20:55:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rebecca</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When we arrived for our Whatcom Community Foundation site visit, I was nervous. I was there because my supervisor, Dan Hammill, along with Greg Winter of the Whatcom Homeless Service Center, had applied for a $5,000 grant for House 2 Home Network through WCF. It was my job to tell WCF how H2H works day-to-day.
Fortunately, [...]]]></description>
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