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Volunteers
– The Lifeblood of the Club
Many
of us join the Sierra Club because we care about the natural
world and want to help with its preservation. However, finding
the best way to get involved can be a challenge. We need your
help now! To learn about volunteer opportunities, contact
our Volunteer Coordinator - Don Ferber at 222-9376 or d_ferber@sbcglobal.net.
RAH
VOLUNTEERS NEEDED FOR
WATERFRONT FESTIVAL JUNE 7-8!
The
Marquette Neighborhood Association "season opener"
is coming up soon! This year the always hoppin' Marquette
Waterfront Festival will be held at Yahara Park on June
7-8. Once again, our
Recyling Away from Home program will
provide recyling containers and will haul garbage and recyclables
in order to minimize the landfill load that this festival
could potentially create.
Volunteers are needed for set up on Saturday morning, throughout
the day Saturday and Sunday, and to break down Sunday evening.
Shifts are 3 hours each, and within each shift there is
usually ample time to also enjoy the festival. Duties include
a minimal amount of sorting, but mostly checking and replacing
bags, and hauling bags to the pick-up spot nearby.
Saturday June 7: set up 9-11 (2 volunteers)
11-2 pm (1-2)
2-5
(3)
5-8
(4)
Sunday
June 8 10-1 (1-2)
1-4 is covered
4-8
(4, or can split this shift if we have enough volunteers)
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To nab a sweet spot in the volunteer schedule
email Ann Catlett at abcat2@yahoo.com
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Volunteer
Meeting Schedules
Want
to dive right in? Some committees have current meetings already
scheduled. Just contact the leader, then show up to learn
more! (More detailed descriptions of these committees
are below the schedules...)
Conservation
Meeting
1st
Monday of the month - 7 – 9 p.m. Email
Seth
Nowak for details.
Inner
City Outings
1st Wednesday of the Month. Email Terri
Felton or visit www.madisonico.org
for details.
Outings
Meeting
3rd
Thursday of the month at a rotating location. Email Bill
Fenske for details.
Publicity
& Newsletter Meeting
4th Thursday
of the month. Email Kate
Blumenthal for details.
Recycling
Away from Home
No set meetings. Email Lacinda
Athen or visit www.madisonrah.org
for details.
General
Group meeting
3rd Wednesday of the month (see Programs)
Volunteer
Opportunities
Conservation
Committee
Our most important function, Conservation
promotes clean energy and personal conservation. Our conservation
group discusses member education, service outings, public
outreach and multiple other ways that we can help hold the
line against those who would put profits and short term gains
over the sustainability of our planet. If you're interested
in helping with this most important task, email
Seth
Nowak for details.
Inner
City Outings
Madison
Inner City Outings is our community outreach program that
provides disadvantaged, city youth with wilderness trips for
education and recreation. See www.madisonico.org for details.
This group is always looking for fun, creative people who'd
like to help with both administrative organization and working
with the kids & leading trips. If interested, please contact
ICO Chair Terri Felton at 663-8874 or tfelton@tds.net.
Outings
Leaders
We are always looking for people who want to meet new people
and encourage a love of wilderness in our members and the
public. Leaders dream up hikes, bike rides, canoe trips, camping
trips, dinners or other outings that they would like to lead,
then work with the Outings Chair to select a date and write
up a description for the web site and newsletter. The Outings
team meets bi-monthly to brainstorm the upcoming calendar.
To get involved, contact Bill Fenske, our Outings Chair, at
duh.guru@att.net
Publicity
Committee
Do you like to write? Do you have a passion for the environment,
but don't want to lead outings or do political work? Then
maybe this is the job for you! The Publicity Commitee handles
content and journalism for our Four
Lakes Sierran, published four times a year. They also
help with the occassional press release, writing public service
announcments and coming up with creative ways to get our message
out to the masses. If interested, please contact Kate Blumenthal
at kateblu2001@yahoo.com.
Recycling
Away from Home
RAH is a joint project with
a few other environmental and neighborhood groups. The task
at hand is to encourage recycling at community events using
a two-pronged approach. We provide volunteers to handle recycling
efforts at the event, but we also offer information to event
planners on how to be more earth-friendly by asking vendors
to use items like recyclable beer cups or biodegradable food
service clamshells. To get on the volunteer list for our summer
events, visit www.madisonrah.org
or contact Lacinda Athen at lathen@farin.com
or 274-7870.
Outreach
is so important to us - Thank You to everyone who helps!
Bill
Fenske from the Four Lakes Group and Kate Schulte from Madison
Inner City Outings, along with many other volunteers,
helped staff an informational table at Wisconsin Public Television's
Garden Expo. They sold t-shirts,
calendars and placemats to raise funds, signed up interested
new volunteers and handed out literature on our various conservation
campaigns.
Marshall
Mundt and Paul Abramson show off the Sierra Club booth at
the Willy Street Fair, as well as our new clear "easy-to-see"
recycling bins used for our Recycling
Away from Home campaign.
The
Sierra Club presence at summer festivals helps us spread the
word on our "Saving Energy
Together" campaign as well as tell others about our
great outings and educational programs.
We
also often share a booth with Inner
City Outings, our urban youth program.
To learn
about volunteer opportunities, contact our Volunteer Coordinator
- Don Ferber at 222-9376 or d_ferber@sbcglobal.net.
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