SERVICE PROJECTS

LOOKING FOR A SERVICE PROJECT FOR YOUR UNIT? 

• Help cook and/or serve meal at a homeless shelter
• Make tray favours for Meals on Wheels
• Prepare care packages with combs, toothbrushes, shampoo, etc. for a women's shelter
• Make a care package for a child at a shelter - include crayons, colouring books, etc.
• Plant, tend and harvest a vegetable garden; donate the produce to a food bank
• Cut grass, wash windows or shovel snow for senior citizens in your community
• Offer to write letters for an elderly person
• Go for a walk with a senior citizen in your community, take a picnic lunch or bring the                  picnic to them
• Hold an afternoon dance at your local nursing home
• Deliver meals to homebound individuals - stay to visit
• Offer to pick up groceries with/for a senior citizen
• Teach a senior friend how to use a computer or the internet
• Get a group together and sing or present a play at a nursing home
• Organize and invite local police officers to present a drug awareness or bicycle safety               assembly
• Tutor a student who needs help learning English or another subject
• Clean up a vacant lot
• Paint a mural or clean up a local park
• Plant flowers in a public area that could use some colour
• Volunteer at an agency that works with emotionally disturbed children
• Read books or the newspaper on tape for visually impaired people
• Bring toys to children in the cancer ward of a hospital
• Clean up along a river or in a park
• Plant a garden or tree where the whole neighbourhood can enjoy it

THERE ARE PLENTY MORE IDEAS FOR SERVICE PROJECTS: Here

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COLLECTING POP CAN TABS FOR WHEELCHAIRS       

Many local Royal Canadian Legion branches across Canada collect pop can tabs through                     schools and other organizations to help those in need acquire wheelchairs. 

The idea of using pop tabs to buy wheel chairs first occurred in 1989, when Ray Pearce of                       the Elora branch of the Royal Canadian Legion heard a rumour that if 10,000 pop tabs were               collected, it could be converted into money for wheelchairs.
He organized a collection and before long had the 10,000 tabs, but the story of them being                   used to purchase wheelchairs turned out to be an urban legend.
Instead, he formed an agreement with Alcan Recycling of Guelph, Ontario and turned the                   rumour to reality.

A short ton is equal to 2,000 lbs., or about 908 kilograms. In other words, the going price                         is almost one dollar per kilogram. 

Check with your local branch of the Royal Canadian Legion to see if they are involved.

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STAMPS FOR OUR CABANA

Due to the unpredictability of the Mexican postal service, Our Cabana often uses the                      Canadian postal system to deliver their mail.  They send large batches of mail to Canada                          with staff or visitors to be mailed upon their return.  They use A LOT of postage in the                          run of a year. You can help Our Cabana by sending stamps to:

Jennifer Trott
50 Fawson's Cove Rd
West Pennant, N.S.  B3V 1M