| Shelter Needs
Cleaning Supplies
Coffee Creamer Cups
Individually wrapped snack items such as pretzels, crackers, cookies, trail mix
Kitchen towels
Washcloths
Men's and Women's socks |
| Volunteer Needs
Sunday Lunch Providers are needed beginning November 7 through March 31. Contact Tariya to sign up for a Sunday.
Sunday volunteers are needed beginning November 7 through March 31 for two shifts: 10:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. and 1:00 p.m. - 3:30 p.m. Come watch the game and spend time with our residents. You may sign up on VolunteerSpot. While you are signing up on VolunteerSpot for Sundays, please consider signing up for an extra day or two on our regular schedule. Lots of spaces available, no waiting! |
Last Call If you would like to join us for the 3rd annual Golf Outing on October 18, please contact Rob McCreary this week. |
Kitchen Needs We are always in need of meals, bagged lunches or gift cards to local grocery stores or Sam's Club to help us purchase items such as milk, orange juice, coffee and coffee supplies. If you can ever help with donating any of these items, please contact Tariya at 610-696-9016. We welcome all these much-needed items! |
Safe Harbor is featured on VolunteerSpot!
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Bricks Make Their Debut!
185 sponsored bricks were recently laid in front of the shelter! If you would like to purchase a brick, there are still over 2,500 available for sponsorship. Please visit our website for a form or call 610-692-6550 and we will mail you one.
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 Happy Fall! Believe it or not, now is the time we are preparing for the holidays for our residents. We have begun receiving phone calls asking for our wish lists. If you are affiliated with a group, church or synagogue and want to include Safe Harbor residents on your holiday list, please call Patty at 610-692-6550 to register your project. If you would like to help organize the many gifts that come in during the week of December 22, please sign up for a day on VolunteerSpot (link is in the bottom left hand box under "Quick Links"). We hope to see you at the Chili Cook-off on October 10 or the Golf Outing on October 18! Thank you for your continued support! |
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Chili Cook-off
The date of West Chester's Chili Cook-off is Sunday, October 10 from 12noon to 3:00 p.m. Please check your calendars as the date advertised last month was incorrect.
Come out along Gay St. and vote for Safe Harbor's famous chili a.k.a. Safe Harbor's Soul Satisfying Chili! |
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Birthday Celebration
For the past few years, the last Wednesday of every month was Resident Birthday Celebration. Mars North America sponsored the day by providing small gift bags of Mars candies for all residents and we purchased a cake for all to enjoy.
This summer, one of our kitchen volunteers, Karen Maspero met Lynne Gratton at the Y who spoke about her friend Maria. Maria started Maria's Cupcakes, a non-profit organization located in Florida serving over 65 shelters across the country with cupcakes for their clients! Maria's Cupcakes mission is "Proudly working together to change lives one Cupcake at a time".
Karen suggested Lynne contact us and within the week, Lynne had signed up to provide cupcakes for all residents on our birthday celebration day plus she bought a balloon and birthday card for any resident celebrating their birthday during that month! Lynne had been only visiting this area for a few months but wanted to get involved.
Now that Lynne is moving back to Florida in the next few weeks, the responsibillity has been graciously received by shelter volunteer, Jennifer Peterkin.
Lynne has agreed to continue sending birthday cards for our residents from Florida so she can still feel a part of Safe Harbor!
Thank you to Lynne and Jennifer for bringing smiles to our residents! |
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Volunteer Time Update After careful review of our six-month trial period of the shelter volunteer shift 3:30 - 6:00 p.m., we have decided to only offer the 6:00 - 7:30 a.m. shift and 6:00 - 9:00 p.m. shift. Please note, we will also adjust the evening shift to 6:00 - 8:00 p.m. after January 1, 2011. These changes will hopefully encourage our volunteers to take another shift during the month at a time when it is most busy in the shelter.
We have recently received a lot of feedback about our volunteer schedule and want to thank everyone who has offered their comments.
We truly appreciate your understanding regarding our changes. Please encourage your friends and family to volunteer at the shelter.
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Thank you!
Thank you to the volunteers who came out on a beautiful Saturday afternoon for our annual Volunteer Luncheon on October 2nd! The food was delicious, the fellowship was fabulous and the door prizes were absolutely amazing!
Thank you to Patrick McKenna, our new board president and guest speaker for the event. We appreciate his commitment to Safe Harbor and his message that everyone deserves a home which is why he has taken on this leadership role.
A big THANK YOU to Gina Harrison for assembling the gift baskets and donating some of the gifts and to Michele Howard for shopping for the decorations and setting up the party room. |
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Kudos to Kitchen Services Director "I would like you to know from yet another voice how well Tariya Edwards runs the kitchen and lunch program at Safe Harbor!! As part of her effort to encourage people to help non-profits by giving volunteer time, County Commissioner Kathi Cozzone volunteered herself to help with lunch today at Safe Harbor. More hands were needed so I joined in the fun.
I was not surprised, but very pleased and proud to see how efficiently Tariya runs her show! She very clearly instructed us in what she needed from us to keep lunch running smoothly all the while making us comfortable through her friendly approach. We chatted when we could and Tariya made it fun and enjoyable the whole time. She made sure Kathi understood that our SH funding was dependent, in part, on people signing in each time they eat. Kathi was in charge of that part all the while taking care of cake orders and handing out the delicious plates of pulled pork or beef stew. The people were pleasant and grateful for a hot meal and very nice to talk to.
It was a thoroughly pleasant experience which we'll look forward to repeating and educates both of us so that we can tell people how much fun it is to work with Tariya!"
Stephannie Beemer-McLimans
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