2601 Anderson Avenue Ste 200

Manhattan, KS 66502

Phone: 785-776-7787

Fax: 785-776-8653

FLINT HILLS VOLUNTEER CENTER

Please help us raise $30,000 to support over 600 volunteers. Your support is appreciated!

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Corporation for National and Community Service . Riley County Council on Aging, Greater Manhattan Com-

munity Foundation, Konza United Way, Kansas State Pi Beta Phi, Diehl Foundation

Volunteer Oppor-

tunities — 7

Volunteer

Spotlight — 3

Ladies Night

Out — 3

Festival of

Trees — 4

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A word from our Executive Director:

WELCOME The Flint Hills Volunteer Center would like to extend a warm welcome to our new volunteers!

Isabelle Acree, Mohammed Amin, Audra Anderson, Tyler Bacon, James Baugh, Taylor Bell, Mikayla Bond, Abbie Boucher, Holly Brown, Evelyne Chokkattu, Dustin Clinkinbeard, Casey Cohorst, Taylor Cowell, Shel-bi Emling, Jeff Endacott, Vanessa Escobar, Francesca Esposito, Rebecca Frakes, Christopher Gerving, Eri-

ca Gianakon, Soey Heffner, Danielle Herrington, James Houghton, Julia Juarez, Patty Karr, Raelyn Kre-hbiel, Danette Lenk, Stephanie Littrell, Muhjaazee Love, Morgan Manuel, Deb Marfield, Walt Marfield,

Ali McKibben, Marlene Medonca, Cort Mohler, Amber Montgomery, Fred Peterson, Carly Rasmus-sen,Enn Ridder, Regina Rutledge, Rebecca Ryan, Robert Satterwhite, Timberly Sen, Kaylee Seyferth,

Madeleine Singleton, Isabella Skolout, Nikkia Snow-Jackson, Ross Snyder, Patricia Stewart, Claire Trisch-ler, Madison Unruh, Michelle Vishnefske, Brooke Wetta, Linda Wilson, Russell Wilson, Sharon Zierlein

Lori Bishop Greetings Volunteers,

This year has gone by fast. Here we are in the final two months and they are actually

my two favorite months! November 10th is the Veterans Day Parade and celebrations.

You won’t want to miss this parade and indoor ceremony. It is the 25th anniversary of

the Veterans Day Parade and I’ve been blessed to be a part of this for nearly that long.

It is also the 100th Anniversary of the 1st Infantry Division at Fort Riley. I encourage all of

you to attend the parade and come to the indoor ceremony at 11:00 am inside City Auditorium (Peace Memorial

Auditorium). We need you to come and show your support and thank those who have served and those who are

currently serving. My deepest thanks and gratitude go to the RSVP volunteers who have worked tirelessly in planning

and implementing this parade!

I love December! Christmas is my favorite holiday and I am so looking forward to shopping for my five adorable grandchildren! Our office hours are going to change in December so please read about that in this newsletter.

We are excited about some new and creative marketing strategies. K-State student intern, Victoria Unrein, has done an outstanding job. I hope you “like” our Flint Hills Volunteer Center Facebook page where we’ve shared her informative blogs. This newsletter was designed and prepared by Victoria and we’re so thankful to have her as a part of our team.

Special thanks also to our other K-State student intern, Nicolette Nemeth, for taking on the challenging task of getting our Veterans Day posters and essays ready for our judges. She’s also been a big help to us by doing those tedious clerical duties!

I will be taking some much-needed time off in November and December. I’ll be out of the office the week of Thanksgiving and again from December 15th – January 2nd. You’ll note that Aillene is going to be gone much of December and January. The office is closed the last week of December and open again on January 2, 2018.

Dated Volunteer Opportunities for November—December

Saturday, November 4—Chili Day 3K — 8:45-9:45 AM. 30-35 volunteers to help provide traffic control on the corners from

Blue Earth Plaza down 3rd St to Poyntz and then down Poyntz to 11th St. Its an out and back course. Meet at the Blue Earth

Plaza by 8:45 AM to receive your safety vest. Blue Earth Plaza is on Colorado Street by the Flint Hills Discovery Center. We

are appreciative of the Manhattan Running Company asking us to help provide volunteers and in return making a donation

to the Flint Hills Volunteer Center!

Sunday, November 5 — Ogden Friendship House of Hope — Basic help in the dining area and clean up. The Soup Lunch will

be from 11:30 to 1:30 PM at College Avenue United Methodist Church. If you are interested please contact Carol Ott at

(785) 539-1748

Tuesday, November 7 — Flint Hills Area Agency on Aging — Fold and label the Caregiver Newsletter from 9 AM-Noon. 301 N. 4th St Caregiver Newsletter

Thursday, November 9- You can drop off cookies on November 8th through the 9th and we will package the cookies at Fort Riley USO on November 9 at 2 PM. We would love for you to join us! Please let me know if you need a pass to get on post. Cookie Brigade volunteers- please keep and eye for another special e-mail with more information

Wednesday, November 1-- 9 AM-9 PM; Thursday, November 2-- 9-9 PM; Friday, November 3-- 9 AM-8 PM; Saturday, November 4-- 9 AM-6 PM — Manhattan Public Library — Library User Survey Assistant. You don't have to volunteer for the whole day, they would appreciate any time you can spare to volunteer for them. 629 Poyntz Avenue, Manhattan, KS

On - Going Volunteer Opportunities

Cookie Brigade — 1st & 3rd Thursday of each month (EXCEPT November and December)– 1 PM here at the Flint Hills Volunteer Center. 2601

Anderson Ave. Suite 200, Manhattan

Caregiver Mailings— Every 1st Tuesday of each month (except on a Holiday) — 9 Am-12 PM; 401 Houston St., Manhattan

Purple Power Animal Welfare Society — Every Saturday; 11 AM-3PM; Petco and Pet Smart in Manhattan

Youth Volunteer Corps. Is seeking more volunteers to be Team Leaders. Team Leaders are assigned a group of kids (ages 11-18) to work on spe-cial projects. Please contact the office for more information.

RSVP Volunteers (55 and over) -- your name tags are ready! Please stop by the office to pick them up and ALWAYS wear them when you're out on a volunteer assignment! If you are not part of the RSVP and would like a name tag, please contact me and I can have one ready for you! Also, when volunteering for an organization especially ones that are on the weekly volunteer opportunities, please ALWAYS make a reference and say you are part of the Flint Hills Volunteer Center. We don't have much marketing around the area and that would help us promote the Volunteer Center tremendously!

Transportation Driver Volunteers needed: We are in need of more transportation volunteers to take seniors to their medical appointments. Check the link below to see what new transportation requests are up and what will work with your schedule. Access code is still the same (for security purposes) but if you don’t have it please contact us.

Meals on Wheels are in need of drivers- contact us if you’re available to help.

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Contact the Flint Hills Volunteer Center 785-776-7787, www.flinthillsvolunteercenter.com, for more

information on any of these events or to sign-up to volunteer!

Cookie Brigade– Schedule for November and December

NOVEMBER 9 ONLY– You can drop off cookies on November 8th through the 9th and we will package the cookies at Fort

Riley USO at 2 PM. We would love for you to join us! Please let me know if you need a pass to get on post.

DECEMBER 7 ONLY. Normal Cookie Brigade schedule will resume in January 2018 (First and Third Thursday of every month)

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Tuesday, December 5 — Intergenerational Activity (for 55 and over) — between 1:05—3:45 PM

Volunteer Spotlight On: Carol Ott

Meet Carol! Carol is one of our very dedicated volunteers. She’s an RSVP member who’s

actively involved in Friendship Meals (AKA Meals on Wheels), which is a program that the

Senior Center organizes, delivering fresh, hot meals to homebound individuals every day.

Carol explained that she’s not the type to sit around the house all day, so since she’s retired

she’s found satisfaction serving others through volunteering. In addition to Friendship

Meals, she’s also involved in Schools of Hope and Harvester’s Club as well as others. I had

the opportunity to follow Carol on

one of her Friendship Meal deliveries.

Caroline starts her route at 10:30 AM

every Monday morning. So we got

right to it and I met each of her

“regulars”; John, Janis, Betty, and

Donald. She told me a little bit about

each one of them and how sometimes

she makes treats for them in addition

to their meal. Thank you Carol for all

you do for Flint Hills Volunteer Center

and our community!

Aillene Aquino: Volunteer Coordinator

Hello Team!

I can’t believe fall is here! It’s been crazy around the office lately as we have a few things coming up in the next few weeks! We are swamped but thankful for the vol-unteer opportunities we were asked to help with to coordinate volunteers for the Chili 3K, on November 4th (We are still needing volunteers!) the poster and essay contest, the Veteran’s Day parade on November 10th (you wouldn’t want to miss this!), the Ladies Night Out on November 15th and the Festival of Tress Gala on No-vember 17th. November is one of my favorite months as I always associate it with

Veteran’s Day and Thanksgiving. With that, I would like to take this opportunity to salute all the Armed Forc-es and the families left behind and all the many who support each serviceman past and present this day. We will be forever grateful!

Also, as we are gearing up for Thanksgiving, I just want to take this time to let all of you know how thankful I am to be part of such a wonderful program and more blessed to work with caring, selfless and ready to help volunteers like you. I may not be able to tell you how much I appreciate you individually, but know I appreci-ate all your hard work, efforts and dedication not only to the program but to the people you help every day. It is such a wonderful community to belong to! THANK YOU!

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John (above) snuck in a touching story about his grand-

children as we were dropping off a hot meal for him.

Caroline (above), 72, volunteers on a

daily basis for our various programs

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Festival of Trees Graphic

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YVC has been visiting with the resident at Via Christi Village. We have done game night and have done fall crafts. Our youth really enjoy their time visiting with the folks at Via Christi Village.

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Jennifer Fox—Youth Services Program

Coordinator

YVC has been very busy the past few months.

We started our construction grant off making 6 birdhouses that we took to Meadowlark Hills nursing home. The youth really worked hard on the birdhouses and enjoyed this project. In September youth helped at the Mini Maker Faire in Aggieville. They helped plan and build a “cardboard city” as well as build a playground with Imagination Playground. Another project that we did for the construction grant was restoring a desk for Habitat for Humanity. The youth got to be very hands on with this project, from picking paint colors to restoring the handles of the desk to their original color. The youth have gotten very good with working with drills and other tools.

In honor of September 11th we put cookie trays together and delivered them to Fire and Police departments.

The end of October has brought us to the annual YVC Youth Summit! This year the Summit was held in Kansas City. The youth had a great time sharing all about Man-hattan and their community with others from across the U.S. and Canada. They got to see and learn what other youth are doing in their communities and they are full of new ideas, and are excited to bring their ideas to our community! A very special Thank you to Com-munity 1st National Bank, Kon-za United Way, and K-State Credit Union for sponsoring

We are so excited to begin our fall

Schools of Hope mentoring program.

RSVP Volunteer Joe Kulbiski is ready to

be a reading mentor to Aaron. We're

happy to partner with Amanda Arnold

Elementary!

Contact the Flint Hills Volunteer Center 785-776-7787,

www.flinthillsvolunteercenter.com, for more information on any of

these events or to sign-up to volunteer!