Issue date: September 15, 1999

Loose ends Loose ends (September 15, 1999)

Community Impact offers one-day service plan

One-shot volunteers who want to be part of Community Impact Day, when some 2,000 volunteers do service projects all over the Bay Area, should sign up and pay their $15 fee by Wednesday, September 15.

This year Community Impact, the Palo Alto-based community service organization, is planning its annual Community Impact Day for Saturday, October 2, starting at 8:45 a.m. Volunteers will fan out to some 50 sites around the Bay Area and get their hands dirty fixing up children's shelters, parks, schools, and other community places that need help.

Community Impact also sponsors other done-in-a-day projects throughout the year. Local projects coming up this month are:

**Volunteers will entertain kids with craft projects during story hours conducted by Project Read to teach literacy Tuesday, September 14, at the Redwood City Main Library, 1044 Middlefield Road.

**People are needed to help salvage, sort and stock donated food for the Second Harvest Food Bank to give to 125,000 hungry people each month, Wednesday, September 15, from 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. at 1051 Bing St. in San Carlos.

**A small group of volunteers is needed to paint a tricycle track at Green Oaks School on Saturday, September 18, from 9:30 a.m. to noon at 2450 Ralmar St. in East Palo Alto.

For more information or to sign up, call Community Impact at 965-0242, or log on at www.CommunityImpact.org.

Music hath charms

Residents of the Nursing Inn of Menlo Park enjoy morning exercises, playing Scrabble, arts and crafts, but, most of all, musical entertainment. Activity director Kathie Mackey is looking for musicians who sing or play an instrument to entertain for one hour a month any day of the week. If you strum a guitar, play the piano or like to sing, it would mean a lot to the residents for you to volunteer.

Have a problem getting a baby sitter? Bring the kids -- the residents enjoy seeing little children. "Many of them are grandparents or great-grandparents themselves," says Ms. Mackey.

To volunteer, call the Volunteer Center Referral Desk at 342-0801, refer to the volunteer job by number 17083; or call Kathie Mackey at the Nursing Inn, 326-0602.