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| Image: Once more in the breach, dear friends. I sure hope it doesn't rain on February 20th. Our "Give a Day, Get a Disney Day" volunteer project at the Sherwood Forest is filled to the rim, with Brim. In this case Brim means volunteers. We've had something in the area of 50 people sign up for the work day through the "Hands on Network" or Disney web site. If these people show up and work the whole day (9AM-2PM), they'll get a voucher for a free ticket to a Disney park. About 60% of these people are moms, dads, and kids. The rest came in from a CSU Chico group. When you add Outsiders' board members, family, and friends we're talking about maybe 70-80 people. And this morning I received an email from someone asking if a group of 11 and 12 year girls, who have their own volunteer group, can help out. You can't say no to that. It's possible we could hit 100 people who are considering coming. Being a volunteer project, and one incorporating little kids, I need to plan for anywhere from 25-100 people. And to go smoothly, we'll need people managing sign-in and sign-out, providing tools, acting as project managers, etc. It's turning into a great trial run for building disc golf improvements at highway 32. When we first proposed the idea of improvements to CARD they were very receptive. We met with CARD's Jake Preston who liked the proposal we made. He asked what part of the improvements we wanted to be responsible for, and we said "all of them". He just smiled and said "done". CARD is paying for the material costs that we estimated, and the Outsiders are coordinating the volunteer effort and procurement of the materials. I have two big concerns right now. First, that the weather will postpone the project. And second, that we won't have enough work, or tools, for everyone that shows up. I can control the latter problem, and the former is up to the gods of recreation, whoever they might be. |
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Lon
About Me: Fasten your seatbelts for an exhilarating trip through Chico's public policy; I guarantee it's marginally better than public access TV.
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you need somebody to handle sign in and out? Are there any rocket science qualifications? I know how to spell, after my own fashion, and I got at least 4 hours of halfway decent eyesight per day. I also have my own folding chair, and lap desk. And I could get a handful of pens from the next city council meeting (yeah, Debbie, you knew it was me!)
I'm staying away from "tote that barge" work cause I'm saving up for my own garden. At my age, you only got so many totes left in there.
I don't need to go to D-land. We been there twice, as if, and yeah, they banned me from the mad hatter ride cause I yacked all over the teacup. I thought that was the whole point, but they were a little t-eed off about it.
Man, I wish I had my own pack of 11-12 year old girls - we could own this town! I got a pack of boys, and you don't lead boys, you run after them like an old dog after a truck.
Right now, I'm pretty sure we just got the flu. My first tipoff - the kids don't feel like going snowboarding today? What the hell? Then when I got up, I noticed, the house is moving under my feet, and I haven't heard anything about a earthquake. I'll see you guys in a couple of weeks.
Pollyana,
I believe I have my wife on the sign-ins/outs now. Someone has to make sure the Disneynauts actually show up and stay for a reasonable period of time. If that gig gets screwed up I'll be hung from the yardarm.
I also heard from the City Volunteer Coordinator that they will provide their tool truck and probably an intern to sign out/in tools (and keep the kids away from the saws, hatchets, and howitzers in the truck).So I think I've managed to get those jobs filled.
It might be nice to have someone walk around telling people "nice-job". I've got an old army helmet that I can paint a star on that you could wear. "Sniper target" is not a job I've been able to get filled, and we must protect the President at all costs (that's me until I can find someone stupid enough to take my spot).
Lon