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Description

The Department of Community Resources and Services (DCRS)/MultiService Center is requesting your help with our Annual 2021 School Supply Event. This event helps provide school supplies to pre-registered residents of Howard County. We will be distributing the school supplies at four different locations and we are in need your assistance to help ensure our students have the supplies they need to start the school year off right!

Job Duties:
* Assist with set-up & clean-up
* Distribute backpacks and supply kits to residents in their cars (drive-by setting)
* Spanish Interpreter volunteers will provide translation (also perform assigned duties stated above)

Date & Time:
* Saturday, August 21, 2021
* 9:00 am-1:00 pm

Site Leaders & Locations: (Distribution will take place in the parking lots)
*Jeannie Decray Elkridge 50+ Center: 6540 Washington Boulevard, Elkridge
*Valerie Mathis MultiService Center: 9900 Washington Blvd, Laurel
*Triston Cooper Howard Crossing Apartments: 8732 Town & Country Blvd., Ellicott City
*Stephanie Adibe/Cheryl Mattis -Long Reach Village Center: 8775 Cloud Leap Court, Columbia

Service Hours:
* Service hours will be approved at sites (please bring appropriate paperwork for approval)

Requirements

Minimum age: 15

Description

Now that more people are getting vaccinated and restrictions are being lifted, we are all beginning to plan for our "new normal" and make a fresh start.

The silver lining of the pandemic is that we all witnessed various Random Acts of Kindness over the course of many difficult and bleak months. Whether you were the person involved in the act (performing or receiving kindness) or just witnessed kindness, it allowed us to become mindful by embracing a positive emotion in real time. In addition, acts of kindness creates a "ripple effect" and for every act of kindness you perform, another person will "pay it forward" by being kind.

Therefore, the Howard County Office on Aging & Independence is kicking off a HoCo Summer Kindness Challenge. We are asking the community to take part in performing acts of kindness throughout the summer. The more people to take the challenge the kinder, safer, and more engaged Howard County will become!

So, become a "kindness ambassador" by signing up to take the challenge and begin to observe the impact you make as the "ripple effect" spreads.

With your sign-up, you will receive an email with the kindness challenges for the month of July.

Please be sure to check back on the volunteer website to register for the August challenge.

Description

Do you enjoy playing Wii? Are you ready to establish your "new norm"?

Then come volunteer at Howard County Office on Aging and Independence's Elkridge 50+ Center to manage their Wii Bowling program on Wednesday mornings. Volunteer must have a passion for the game and be able to encourage others to share your passion by getting seniors to participate in playing.

The program is set-up in a safe environment that will require wearing masks and gloves, and maintaining the required social distancing.

DUTIES:
- Set-Up and break down of Wii
- Set-up players
- Encourage and support 50+ Center members to play for on hour every Wednesday morning

QUALIFICATIONS:
- Experience in playing Wii Bowling
- Be able to set-up players independently
- Good communication skills
- Must be 18 years or older

LOCATION:
- Elkridge 50+Center
(6540 Washington Blvd, Elkridge 21075)

WHEN:
- Every Wednesday
-10 am-11 am

Requirements

Minimum age: 18