Indoor Winter Gardening

Volunteers will join Mother Hubbard's Cupboard and Rhino's for a session of artistic and practical winter garden activities. Volunteers will plant seeds in seeding trays, paint garden signs and create art for MHC's three gardening sites. All activities will take place at Rhino's between 9 a.m. and 1 p.m. on Monday, Jan. 21st. Volunteers will reflect on the project while sharing a pizza lunch. All ages are welcome, but those under 12 years of age need to be accompanied by an adult. For more
information contact: Stephanie Solomon at 355-6843 or stephanie@mhcfoodpantry.org (www.mhcfoodpantry.org).

Family Fun Night

Come join the rest of Egypt and all its treasures at this years? Monroe County YMCA Family Fun Night on Saturday, January 26th! Dress as Cleopatra or a pharaoh. Help is needed with crafts, face painting, inflatables, special Tomb Room, concessions and more! We are also turning the pool into the mighty Nile River so bring your swim suit and towel! Two, four or six hour shifts are available between 4 p.m. and 11 p.m. All ages and families are welcome to volunteer! For more
information contact: Lindsay Buuck at 332-5555 ext. 235 or lbuuck@monroecountyymca.org (www.monroecountyymca.org).

Girls Inc. Volunteers

Celebrate the spirit of the Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday as an after school activity volunteer at Girls Inc. on Friday, January 25th. Teens will be assembling toiletry bags for the clients of Middle Way House and discussing the issues surrounding domestic violence. Be a part of this helpful and informative session with the girls and make yours ?A Day On! Not a Day Off.? Minimum age is 12. For more information contact: Ellen Prusinski at 336-7313 or eprusinski.monroe@girls-inc.org
(www.girlsinc-monroe.org).

Habitat Shed Builders

Habitat for Humanity strives both to provide simple, decent housing for families in need in Monroe County and to equip its new homeowners to be good neighbors within their new communities. To help homeowners keep their new homes neat, each Habitat home built in Monroe County has a
wooden shed to provide outdoor storage. On Saturday, January 19th, with the guidance of two Habitat staff members, 10 volunteers are needed to build a storage shed for home #77. Volunteers will cut lumber using power tools and assemble the floor, walls and roof using hand tools. The
build will take place between 8 a.m. and 4 p.m. at the Habitat ReStore at 300 W. 11th Street. Minimum age is 16. For more information contact: Noma Maier at 331-4069 or maier@monroecountyhabitat.org (www.monroecountyhabitat.org).

Hoosier Hills MLK Day Volunteers

As the calendar year begins to wrap up, we at the food bank are already looking ahead to the exciting events that will be kicking off 2008! First and foremost is Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr Day - "A Day On, Not A Day Off". Taking place on Monday, January 21, 2008, we will be hosting
volunteers all day long from 9 am through 7pm.

We will be doing similar work this year folding paper bags and placing stickers on them in preparation for our large Live From Bloomington food drive in April. Volunteers are welcome to decorate bags with messages of hunger, as done last year. A few groups may be able to work at the Cook Warehouse on our two USDA programs, packing boxes of food or staging pallets in preparation for distribution. We are also looking for additional help for our Repack session that evening, which will begin at 5:30pm.

Please get back to me as soon as possible to schedule a time for your group to come help out! Even if you are not sure of the exact number of volunteers, schedule a block of time now before the day fills up!! We greatly appreciated all of your help last year and really hope we can
share the day with you all again this January!

Kim Kanney
Hoosier Hills Food Bank
Volunteer Coordinator
812.334.8374
volunteer@hhfoodbank.org