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Cloverdale evacuation center seeks volunteers ahead of wildfire season
The grounds of the Cloverdale Citrus Fair in Cloverdale served as an evacuation center for residents leaving the area of the 2017 Tubbs Fire in Sonoma County and an...Read More
Covid-19 update: Newsom calls on masses to volunteer, Bay Area scrambles to feed, educate, shelter those in need
Despite heaviness that comes with the fight against the 2019 novel coronavirus, there are glimmers of hope in how leaders, organizations and people are stepping up to help communities...Read More
Group needs healthy volunteers to deliver meals, prescriptions to high-risk people
Santa Clara County Helping Hands called on healthy residents Friday to volunteer to bring meals and prescriptions to local seniors and people who are immunocompromised during the novel coronavirus...Read More
Ocean Beach gets some love with Valentine’s Day volunteer cleanup
Volunteers are showing some love for San Francisco’s Ocean Beach on Valentine’s Day, according to the Turtle Island Restoration Network, which is hosting a beach cleanup on Friday. The...Read More
Little Free Library honors animal shelter volunteers who died in Conception fire
The lives and deeds of three Santa Cruz County Animal Shelter volunteers who died when the boat they were on caught fire last September near Santa Barbara are being...Read More
San Francisco recruits poll workers for March 3 election
The Department of Elections in San Francisco is recruiting people interested in serving as poll workers in the March 3 election. Poll workers facilitate voting at neighborhood polling places...Read More
Santa Clara County seeks volunteer Civil Grand Jury applicants
The Santa Clara County Superior Court is looking for volunteers to serve on the 2020-2021 Civil Grand Jury, Presiding Judge Deborah Ryan announced Thursday. The Civil Grand Jury serves...Read More
Dozens step up to keep Berkshire Books open when owner’s health fails
For most of the past 15 years, Concord’s Berkshire Books has been a one-man operation, with Lynn Kuehl buying, selling, stacking, shelving and otherwise handling the books and doing...Read More
Volunteers spruce up meadow with 5,000 plants at Presidio’s Fort Winfield Scott
Volunteers will plant 5,000 native plants in the meadow of the former Fort Winfield Scott Parade Ground on Saturday in San Francisco, according to the Presidio Trust. The event...Read More
Campaign office grand opening draws hundreds of Sanders’ supporters
Hundreds flocked to the Mission District in San Francisco on Thursday for the grand opening of Bernie Sanders’ Bay Area campaign headquarters. Former San Francisco supervisor Jane Kim played...Read More
Army officers join ‘The Great Pave’ effort to clean Fruitvale streets
About 30 uniformed Army officers will soon be joining with Oakland City Councilman Noel Gallo in his longstanding effort to clean the streets in his district in the city’s...Read More