Music at the Ridge is looking for volunteers once or twice per season to bake refreshments to sell at intermission. If you don’t consider yourself a baker, it is perfectly okay to pick up a box of cookies and/or a bag of clementines at your favorite grocery store. Please speak or email Nancy Hershatter.
Social Action Council
Soup Kitchen Corner
by Judy Lacker
You can help feed our neighbors with a gift card in any amount from any local supermarket. Lynn Taborsak has also been scheduling the sandwich donations so we have just the right amount each day at Dorothy Day Soup Kitchen. If you are interested in making sandwiches, please email ddhhsandwiches@gmail.com. We can all be an important part of the fight to end hunger in our community!
In the past couple of years, we have lost some of our Dorothy Day volunteers. Please consider volunteering to be on a Team – it only involves a few hours, 3 Saturdays per year. It is a very rewarding experience.
Please contact Judy Lacker for more information or to sign up. If joining a team is not for you, you may consider being an alternate. It would require you to be available to substitute for a team member who would contact you a few days in advance of the particular first Saturday of the month. You can sign up on the poster on the bulletin board in the lobby and indicate “Alternate”.
We have resumed collecting non-perishable food donations on Sunday mornings. Please place your food donations in the basket in the foyer. You can sign up to help transport the weekly collection to The Dorothy Day Hospitality House on Spring Street.
One or Two Special Volunteers Needed for Youth Ministry
- Do you believe strongly in the importance of creating communities in which all kids can belong?
- Do you enjoy being around inquisitive people who work hard to make sense of their experiences in the world and who think a lot about their own values and the values of other people?
- Do you like to ask a lot of questions and consider a variety of perspectives as you form your own ideas?
- Do you like to play, be silly, and have adventures with others?
- Do you have a good sense of humor?
- Are you calm, flexible, and able to capture learning opportunities in all kinds of situations?
If so, you might be exactly the right fit for a volunteer position as a Middle School Youth Group Advisor. After a training session, it is a once-per-month commitment on a mutually agreeable time and day from October through May. Please contact Sierra-Marie at dre@uudanbury.org to consider together whether this is the right fit for you.
The Buildings and Grounds Team is in the process of building two picnic tables outside the lower level of Fellowship Hall. These tables are made with recycled plastic decking for the contact surfaces and they are designed to be easy to access for people with mobility issues. If you would enjoy helping with this project, let Keith know and we’ll find an hour sometime to work on it together!
Many other things, such as pruning, planting, painting, and planning are also in progress. Just speak up if you’d like to become involved in any of our various B&G activities.