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YWCA expanding volunteer base to serve increasing numbers of
people in need
The YWCA of Clark County,
founded in 1916, served an estimated 30,000 women, children and
families last year, and the number is growing.
The local Y has about 150
volunteers who serve as court appointed special advocates for
abused and neglected children, according to
Al Flory, the
organization’s director of volunteer development.
Last year, volunteers
handled 660 cases of abused, neglected and abandoned children
before the courts. “We need an additional 30 volunteers to
handle the growing numbers of these children in Clark County,”
Flory says.
The YWCA is kicking off
its spring 2004 recruitment and training cycle with a volunteer
orientation at 6 p.m. Tuesday, April 13, in the agency’s
community room, 3609 Main Street.
The orientation is free
and reservations are not required.
The YWCA has 75 to 80
full- and part-time employees, whose work is augmented by some
250 volunteers serving on an annual basis, and up to 700
volunteers who perform short-term chores, such as working with
the May 1, annual benefit auction.
Volunteers being sought
in particular to fill positions in several categories of
service will be given 30 to 35 hours of training, according to
Flory.
The SafeChoice domestic
violence victim support program is served by 30 to 35 volunteers
and needs more volunteers. SafeChoice provided over 10,000
bed-nights in the agencies 28-unit shelter.
More sexual assault
victim advocates for adults and children are needed to serve
that growing population. Last year, Y volunteers provided
counseling, support and advocacy for 2,200 individuals.
WORTH volunteers,
volunteers who devote two hours a week visiting women in local
jails, are being sought to provide assistance to an estimated
1,200 women who will be inmates in local jails this year.
And volunteers are being
sought as mentors to help provide living skills for young people
who are emerging from foster care.
For further information,
call Flory at 696-0167,
or go to the YWCA website at
www.ywcaclarkcounty.org.
Farmers Market opening
Saturday, April 3
Vancouver’s Farmers
Market opens its 2004 season Saturday, April 3, in the same
location, Esther Street, just east of Esther Short Park.
This year, the market is
open both Saturday, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., and Sunday, 10 a.m. to 3
p.m., through October.
Among fresh vegetables
available during the first weeks of the market are asparagus,
beans, beets, broccoli, Brussel sprouts, cabbage, carrots,
cauliflower, cucumbers, onions and hydroponic tomatoes. A
variety of fruits are also available in April.
New vendors are being
accepted. For further information, call
737-8298.
Colin Cowherd,
award-winning sports broadcaster joining ESPN Radio
Colin Cowherd, most
recently sports anchor for KGW-TV and currently hosting his own
sports radio show on KFXX, has left KGW-TV for the nation’s
largest sports radio network, ESPN Radio.
His 10 a.m.-to-1 p.m.
show on the ESPN network, to be called
The Herd, begins Monday,
March 29. It will also be heard on KFXX, which is 910 on the AM
dial.
Cowherd succeeds
Tony Kornheiser,who stays
on at ESPN.
Before coming to KGW-TV,
Cowherd, a graduate of Eastern Washington University, was sports
director at KVBC-TV in Las Vegas, where he was named Nevada’s
Sportscaster of the Year five times.
News briefs
An open house to
evaluate preliminary roadway alignments for the projected
Interstate-5, NE 219th Street interchange is 6 to 8 p.m. this
evening in the Battle Ground High School cafeteria, 300 W Main
Street. nnn
The Clark County Animal Protection and
Control Advisory Board meets at 6:30 p.m. this evening in Hazel
Dell Sewer District offices, 8000 NE 32nd Court. nnn
Vancouver City Center Vision community
resource team meets at 7 p.m. tonight in City Hall.
Battle Ground's parks vote is April 27--Columbian, Margaret
Ellis
Camp Opportunity taking on new look--Columbian, Kelly Adams
AMR gets ambulance service nod--Columbian, Erin Middlewood
High tech
growth helping Oregon economy--KATU
State economy may be stalling again--Seattle Times, Stephen
Dunphy
Economy grew at solid 4.1 percent pace--New York Times, AP
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