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Weekly volunteer highlights for July 29 to Aug. 5
July 29, 2016 - 3:51 PM

Weekly Volunteer Highlights for July 29 to Aug. 5, 2016:
Volunteer Highlights for July 2 to 9
July 03, 2015 - 4:24 PM

BC Living Arts
BC Living Arts Event Volunteers - On July 10 – 11, BC Living Arts is hijacking Music in the Park for a music and arts festival at Riverside Park. Positions are: Backstage Artist Hosts, Gestural Loop Assistant, Art Installation Hosts, Promotion Hosts, Refreshment Garden Hosts, Fundraising Hosts, Photography Assistants, and the Tidy Team. 16+ to volunteer and family volunteering friendly. 250-682-2936.
Volunteer Highlights for June 25 to July 2
June 25, 2015 - 1:53 PM

Kamloops Arts Council
Art in the Park Volunteers - The Kamloops Arts Council is looking for outgoing, energetic, and cheerful volunteers to help prepare for Art in the Park from June 24 to the 30, and the day of the event at Riverside Park on the 1st of July. Many different positions: Setup/Takedown, Fundraisers, and Ask Me/Greeters. 14+ to volunteer and family volunteering friendly. 250-372-7323.
Volunteer Highlights for June 18 to 25
June 18, 2015 - 3:15 PM

Kamloops Arts Council
Art in the Park Volunteers - The Kamloops Arts Council is looking for outgoing, energetic, and cheerful volunteers to help prepare for Art in the Park from June 24 to the 30, and the day of the event at Riverside Park on the 1st of July. Many different positions: Setup/Takedown, Fundraisers, and Ask Me/Greeters. 14+ to volunteer and family volunteering friendly. 250-372-7323.
West Kelowna council highlights: April 23
April 26, 2013 - 12:22 PM

Invasive Mussels
Heather Larratt, Aquatic Biologist, spoke to Council about the need to implement a strategy to prevent the spread of invasive Zebra and Quagga mussels to the Okanagan. Currently these invasive mussels are spreading rapidly in eastern Canada and the United States and there is concern they could spread to the Okanagan. The most common way the mussels spread is when boats are used in contaminated lakes, not cleaned and then used in uncontaminated lakes.
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One Epic Flight to Launch Thousands of Others

Weekly volunteer highlights for July 29 to Aug. 5

Volunteer Highlights for July 2 to 9

Volunteer Highlights for June 25 to July 2

Volunteer Highlights for June 18 to 25

West Kelowna council highlights: April 23

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