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The Columbian
Published: June 10, 2014, 5:00pm

o Volunteer Connections provides opportunities through the Human Services Council.

For information on the following and other opportunities, call 360-735-3683.

Clark College LEP Pathway ESL seeks tutors to conduct one-on-one or small group conversations, listen as students read aloud, help with phonics and spelling, assist students using computers and support classroom instructors.

Clark County Department of Environmental Services is looking for a variety volunteers for the Recycled Arts Festival, June 28 and 29. All volunteers will receive lunch and a free T-shirt.

Lifeline Connections seeks help with phones, messages, filing and light computer work.

Open House Ministries’ Wheel Deals Bike Shop is looking for mechanically inclined volunteers to service donated bicycles, assist customers and help keep the shop organized.

School of Piano Technology for the Blind is looking for volunteers to drive technicians to appointments Tuesday through Friday, helping the technicians get situated as needed. Substitute drivers are also needed. Some paperwork is involved. Office help is needed on Mondays with phones, greeting and assisting students and customers, mail distribution, and with fundraising.

o Volunteers are sought for a community landscape maintenance project, 9 a.m. Saturday at Fort Vancouver Regional Library, Cascade Park branch, at 600 N.E. 136th Ave., Vancouver. Participants should bring their own gloves, garden tools and drinking water. To register, call the library at 360-256-7782.

o Habitat for Humanity ReStore seeks volunteer help as the business relocates from Fourth Plain Boulevard to Mill Plain Boulevard this month. Groups and individuals ages 16 and older, are needed for a variety of tasks. For information, call 360-213-1313 or go to pdxrestore.org.

o The Camtown Youth Festival is looking for donations of empty toilet paper tubes for a craft planned for the festival on Saturday. Deliver the tubes to Camas City Hall by Thursday. City Hall, at 616 N.E. Fourth Ave., Camas, is open between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m. Monday through Friday. For information, contact Krista Bashaw, special events coordinator, at 360-817-7991.

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