Local Volunteer Opportunities

The Volunteer Center

Serving Western Connecticut

SPECIAL EVENTS Taste of Danbury on September 11 and 12 is in need of volunteers to assist with this major community event in 2 or 3 hour shifts. Volunteers must be at least 18 and will receive a food and beverage voucher. OPPORTUNITIES TO VOLUNTEER Retail store of a homebuilding organization is in need of consistent volunteers to spend time greeting and helping customers or answering the phones. Carpenters needed to help with construction of an engineered wetlands boardwalk project in Danbury. Youth volunteers will also be working on this project. Animal shelter in Ridgefield is in need of a website manager to help transition their website into one where they can control the content internally. Land trust administrator needed to help manage their database, acknowledge donations and reconcile financial reports. You will also help coordinate special events and activities. This land trust helps protect Danbury lands. New youth volunteer program for an animal welfare society is in need of a coordinator to manage and implement the involvement of youth ages 10-17 into their organization. Literacy tutors are needed at in Brookfield to go into an elementary school for one hour a week to read with a first or second grader. This program helps children become successful readers. WISH LIST Used appliances (no more than 7 years old) in good, clean condition and working order are needed for the retail store of a homebuilding organization. They can arrange pickup. They can also use good reusable building materials. New games and puzzles are needed at a youth agency for their therapy sessions.

The Volunteer Center Serving Western Connecticut 58 Division Street, Danbury, Connecticut 06810 (203) 797-1154 Fax (203) 797-1194 Website: http://www.volunteerdanbury.org E-mail: volunteers@volunteerdanbury.org

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1828: Leo Tolstoy, Russian novelist (War and Peace, Anna Karenina).

1887: Alfred M. Landon, Republican governor of Kansas who carried only two states in his overwhelming defeat for the presidency by Franklin Roosevelt in 1936.

1890: Colonel Harland Sanders, originator of Kentucky Fried Chicken fast-food restaurants.

1900: James Hilton, British novelist who authored Lost Horizon and Goodbye Mr. Chips and created the imaginary world of Shangri-La.

1934: Sonia Sanchez, poet.

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1911: An airmail route opens between London and Windsor.

1915: A German zeppelin bombs London for the first time, causing little damage. Although loaded with innovations, the J.V. Martin Kitten failed at its primary mission of intercepting zeppelins.

1942: A Japanese float plane, launched from a submarine, makes its first bombing run on a U.S. forest near Brookings, Oregon. Japan bombs the West Coast.

1943: Allied troops land at Salerno, Italy and encounter strong resistance from German troops.

1970: U.S. Marines launch Operation Dubois Square, a 10-day search for North Vietnamese troops near DaNang.Marine pilots in their diminutive Douglas A-4 Skyhawks provided vital close air support for ground forces in Vietnam.

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