Hospice of Northeastern Illinois looking for volunteers
Hospice of Northeastern Illinois needs your help.
The community-based not-for-profit organization seeks volunteers interested in helping make life easier for patients and families so they can share their remaining time together with compassion and dignity.
Volunteer coordinator Jan Farrell said those who give their time provide companionship, transportation, emotional support and respite care for patients.
Additional volunteer opportunities are available through the Life Improves with Friends in Transition, or LIFT, program. This volunteer-based program helps those who've been diagnosed with a life-limiting disease but might not be ready for hospice care.
Volunteers in this program could run errands, prepare a meal, read a book or share stories among many other helpful and caring activities.
All hospice volunteers are specially trained and must attend a comprehensive, two-day volunteer training session before starting.
The next training session is scheduled for 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Feb. 15 and 16.
To sign up or get more information on volunteering, contact Farrell at (847) 381-5599, ext. 219, or e-mail JFarrell@HospiceAnswers.org.
Hospice of Northeastern Illinois serves families throughout McHenry, Lake, Northwest Cook, Kane, Boone and DuPage counties.
Citizens to meet: Locally based Citizens for Conservation is getting ready for its annual meeting, scheduled for 6:30 p.m. Feb. 7 at Barrington Area Library, 505 N. Northwest Hwy.
The meeting's keynote speaker will be University of Chicago environmental economist Don Coursey, who will present "Operation Lifeboat: What Gets Saved?"
Refreshments, displays and opportunities to visit with education birds from Flint Creek Wildlife Rehabilitation will begin at 6:30 p.m. The program will start at 7 p.m.
Citizens for Conservation encourage those who attend to bring a donation that can be used to care for injured and orphaned wildlife. Items include paper towels, bleach, chemical-free laundry detergent, fleece blankets, nuts in the shell and anti-bacterial dish soap, wipes and spray.
To R.S.V.P., call (847) 382-7283.
Photography exhibit: Starting Monday, photography from David Orr will be on display at Barrington High School's Clair E. Smith Art Gallery.
Orr -- not the Cook County clerk who shares the same name -- collected images from his recent work at Victoria Falls in southern Africa, the continental divide in Western Canada and Switzerland's Bernese Oberland.
In recent years, he's participated in more than 20 juried exhibitions throughout the country.
He frequently exhibits work and volunteers as a shopkeeper at the Galena Artist Guild Gallery.
Orr's work will be on display through Feb. 14. The gallery is open during school hours and during evening performances.
For more information, contact Barrington's fine arts department at (847) 842-3214.
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