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Volunteer opportunities

Help in the Client Choice Food Pantry 8:30 a.m. to noon for one or more days per month at Allentown Area Ecumenical Food Bank. Clients are very happy to have the assistance to select their food and placed in the bags. This is a great way to get involved in the community. Training is available. The minimum age to volunteer is 18 or 14 with adult. Contact Itza Castillo at 610-821-1332 or aaefb1978@gmail.com

Enjoy music? Join the Miller Symphony Hall Lyric Society as an usher for Allentown Symphony Association events. Take tickets, answer questions or hand out programs to patrons. Enjoy the shows you are scheduled for and receive discounts to other ASO events. The minimum age to volunteer is 16. Contact Cheryl Haughney at 610-432-6715 or chaughney@allentownsymphony.org.

Walk to End Alzheimer’s in our lifetime! Volunteers are needed 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Sept. 24 at ArtsQuest in Bethlehem to assist with registration, children’s activities and general setup and cleanup. Photographers and walk route guides are also needed. The minimum age to volunteer is 14. Contact Lori Wehr at 215-399-9219 or lowehr@alz.org.

Provide follow up and recovery planning services, including referrals, for individuals and households following regional events - primarily home fires – for American Red Cross. May also conduct intake and provide financial assistance to qualified clients. Services may be provided in person or virtually. Contact Danielle Dietze at 570-202-7954 or danielle.dietze@redcross.org.

Seeking the services of a mason, or someone experienced in laying cinder block. Flint Hill Farm Educational Center in Coopersburg is ready to proceed with a root cellar construction project. They have a diagram, a proposed site and a backhoe and operator to dig the foundation. This project will be offered for a community education series as the project progresses. Contact Kathleen Fields at 610-838-2928 or kfields1922@gmail.com.

No Child Left Behind is an annual back-to-school event providing free haircuts, backpacks and school supplies to local children in Easton. They are collecting supplies until Aug. 15 and need adult volunteers for the following activities: collecting backpack and school supply donations, picking up and transporting donations, stuffing backpacks, helping with social media outreach and volunteering on the day of the event, noon to 4 p.m. Aug. 21, at Third Street Alliance. Contact Jenna Sentz at 610-438-9436 or jsentz@thirdstreetalliance.org.

Track and Field Day is an event letting youth realize their potential and learn something new about themselves and their teammates. The event will be held for clients and staff at Valley Youth House’s Camp Fowler in Orefield. Help is needed for setup day 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Aug. 18 to gather equipment, set up events, bag hay bales, fill lots of balloons, etc. Bring your own bag lunch and water/drinks. The minimum age to volunteer is 14 with adult. The rain date is Aug. 22. Contact Emily Conners at 610-820-0166 or econners@valleyyouthhouse.org.

Assist with the annual July open houses and the valleywide Passport to History at the Whitehall Historical Preservation Society. Help is needed to monitor the Grist Mill and Grim House during tours 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. July 23, 30, 31. Contact Alice Lieberman at 610-776-7280 or WHPS@verizon.net.

Visit their website www.volunteerlv.org for a larger listing of volunteer opportunities or contact the center at 610-807-0336 or vc@volunteerlv.org for more information.