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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>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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		<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>Joining the fight to end homelessness</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Apr 2010 15:43:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I’ve only been at the Whatcom Volunteer Center for a few days and I have already learned so much. My preconceptions about homelessness in Whatcom County have been completely altered.
Before I came to the Whatcom Volunteer Center I thought homelessness was standing on the street asking for money or holding cardboard signs. I thought being [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Have your awards event and eat ice cream too!</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Apr 2010 23:43:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Susan</dc:creator>
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		<title>A PUZZLING DILEMMA</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Mar 2010 21:55:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Susan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If a nonprofit agency gives a service for free, many people don’t understand that the reason they get that free service is because someone else donated money so that agency could continue operating in the community.
 It puzzles me how to get people to commit to helping our agency by donating dollars or participating in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>St. Patrick&#8217;s Day Equals St. Party Day at WVC</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Mar 2010 23:04:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[All it took was a six-pack of green O-Douls and some potato skins to get this party started.


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		<title>What Volunteering Has Meant to Me</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Feb 2010 22:26:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Randi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Written by: Lacey Kara, Western Washington University student
I moved to  Bellingham, WA from Boston, MA at the beginning of my sophomore year of high  school. Not knowing anybody or having any other “niche,” I joined our high  school’s volunteer organization called “Key Club.” I felt like I would be  accepted here, if [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ferndale Food Bank Director Retires &#8211; Thanks Sharon!</title>
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		<comments>http://www.whatcomvolunteer.org/ferndale-food-bank-director-retires-thanks-sharon/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Feb 2010 20:28:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jodi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[“My many years with the Food Bank have been an amazing journey filled with laughter, tears, faith &#38; hope.  I have seen progression from our use of a small facility at the United Church to our own much larger building at the WTA Park &#38; Ride location.  Yet, we continue to grow, and our hope [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nonprofits to Know #1: Bellingham Books to Prisoners</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jan 2010 19:20:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Randi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bellingham Books to Prisoners, a pretty self-explanatory name for the nonprofit, but take a look behind the scenes and the mission goes much deeper. What it means? It is the power to provide someone with a simple item, a book, that can make a powerful and positive difference in that person&#8217;s life.
Check out the video [...]]]></description>
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