Agency: Douglas County Senior Services, Inc.

Contact: Chip McConnell at cmcconnell@dgcoseniorservices.org or at 842-0543

Douglas County Senior Services, Inc., is committed to promoting quality of life for older citizens. Volunteers are needed to drive one of DCSS’s designated meal delivery routes in Lawrence to deliver lunchtime meals. Routes usually take less than an hour to complete. Lawrence routes are run between 11:00 AM and Noon, Monday through Friday. Home delivered meals give homebound seniors a chance to interact with the meal delivery driver and receive a hot lunchtime meal. Volunteers may choose a steady one day a week assignment or deliver a route on several different days. Volunteers will use their own vehicles and in order to help defray gas expenses, a reimbursement of $0.45 per mile is offered to volunteer drivers for miles driven on their meal delivery route(s) in their personal vehicles. For more information, please contact Chip McConnell at cmcconnell@dgcoseniorservices.org or at 842-0543.

• Big Brothers Big Sisters of Douglas County provides one-to-one relationships for children facing adversity. BBBS is looking for volunteers to assist with their fund raising event, Bowl for Kids’ Sake, on April 10, 11, and 17, at Royal Crest Lanes, 933 Iowa Street. Volunteers are needed to assist bowlers during the bowling sessions by collecting t-shirts for the team members. A few greeters are needed, as well. Please contact Heather Biele at hbiele@hotmail.com to volunteer.

• The Lawrence Sertoma Club is a philanthropic group that raises funds for various activities in our community. The primary recipient of the group’s funding is the Kansas University Speech and Hearing Department’s Communication Camp for children with communications disorders. The camp is a collaborative effort between the Lawrence Sertoma Club and the Schiefelbusch Speech-Language-Hearing Clinic at KU. Volunteers are needed to assist with the Sertoma 48 BBQ Contest fund raiser on May 8 and 9. On May 8, the competition teams arrive and help is needed for setting up the tents, checking teams in, and parking cars and trailers. Volunteers are needed on the day of the event, May 9, to help direct traffic, take tickets, serve as parking attendants, and clean up. For more information, please contact Dee Bisel at dee@minutemanlawrence.com.

• Brandon Woods serves the Lawrence community as a full-service senior living community. Brandon Woods is looking for volunteers to brighten the day of residents by providing manicure services of clipping and filing nails. Volunteers who would like to paint nails are an added bonus. Please contact Tracy Flory at tflory@5ssl.com or at 838-8000 for more information.

• Big Brothers Big Sisters of Douglas County provides one-to-one relationships for children facing adversity. Big Brothers Big Sisters currently has 47 boys waiting to be matched with a Big Brother, Big Couple, or Big Family. One of those 47 boys is a 6 year old boy who is very smart for his age, calm, reserved and easily entertained. He loves school, sports, video games and playing outdoors. If you have a few hours a week to be a volunteer, this is your opportunity to make a difference. To make a difference in the life of this young man, please contact 785-843-7359.

— For more volunteer opportunities, please contact Shelly Hornbaker at the United Way Roger Hill Volunteer Center at 785-865-5030, ext. 301 or at volunteer@unitedwaydgco.org or go to www.volunteerdouglascounty.org.