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CentreCentreCentre 4725 4725 4725 --- 43 St.43 St.43 St. Sylvan LakeSylvan LakeSylvan Lake

Phone: (403) 887Phone: (403) 887Phone: (403) 887---1137 ext.2221137 ext.2221137 ext.222

Fax: 403Fax: 403Fax: 403---887887887---119411941194

Mailing Address: 4926 Mailing Address: 4926 Mailing Address: 4926 --- 50th Avenue50th Avenue50th Avenue Sylvan Lake ABSylvan Lake ABSylvan Lake AB

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Sylvan Lake F.C.S.S. offers the Volunteer Centre, which is here to provide informa-tion and referral about volunteer opportu-nities to the broader community. The Volunteer Centre wishes to assist commu-nity members in making volunteering a positive experience.

Volunteering is rewarding, fun and often a great place to meet people. Whatever your reason for wanting to get involved, there is a place for you in Sylvan Lake to contribute to the volunteer sector.

The Volunteer Centre also offers non-profit and volunteer organizations board development workshops and resources available that can be borrowed. The Hub on the website is a perfect tool for collecting Volunteers.

“No act of kindness, no matter how small, is never wasted” Aesop

Go out on a limb for your community Volunteer Today.

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Make A Positive Difference In Your Life …… Volunteer!!

In 2000 the Canadian Centre for Philanthropy completed a national study on volunteerism in Canada. The organization estimates that the total time volunteer by all Canadians is 1.05 billion hours, or the equivalent of 549,000 full time jobs. In Alberta about $1.5 billion worth of volunteer work is contributed annually.

Besides the tangible physical and financial benefits volunteers contribute to the Town of Sylvan Lake, working as a volunteer gives you an opportunity to:

• Make a better community

• Meet people

• Have fun

• Share a hobby or skill

• Network with professionals

• Give recognition

• Gain skills and experience

• Feel a sense of accomplishment

• Support a cause you believe in

The need for volunteers is ever increasing. As a result volunteers like yourself are and will continue to be instrumental in meeting community needs.

The Community HubThe Community HubThe Community Hub Connecting Volunteers and Organizations 

Staff in your office or volunteers at home can search for the right volunteer opportunity by one or more criteria, or just browse through all of them.

Each week, MyVolunteerPage.com emails volunteer opportunities to volunteers whose profile matches that of the new volunteer opportunity. (Volunteers must opt-in for this type of notification.)

Schools, businesses and other groups can access reports on their group’s volunteer activity levels.

Community Promotions

Community Hub helps make it possible to get the community involved and able to view your volunteer opportunities database.

Save Time

Volunteers can sign-up online and maintain their own profiles. Viewing all the local volunteer opportunities. Selecting what volunteer opportunities that are appealing or the organization that interests you.

Organizations can sign-up online and maintain their own profiles and lists of volunteer opportunities. You can choose to preview all or selected entries before they are displayed .

These services depend on the availability of the volunteers, please help us deliver programs that benefit our community.

Volunteer OpportunitiesVolunteer OpportunitiesVolunteer Opportunities Snow Angels

You can help a senior in our community with some of the everyday challenges. Snow Angels help out in the winter with

snow shoveling.

Yard Care Program Support a senior in your neighborhood and help with

Mowing/maintain the grass. Get your work, school or user group volunteering!!!

Community Volunteer Income Tax Program

Community Volunteer Income Tax Program is offered through Canada Revenue Agency. Training is FREE.

Lifeline Volunteers Install lifeline units, sign up for training dates.

Driving at the Lake Potential driving volunteers require a vehicle in excellent operating condition, a valid driving license, a reasonable sense of direction and probably a good sense of humor !

Volunteer applicants will be interviewed, have a police records screening and provide a current motor vehicle driving

abstract. Benefits to volunteering with this program will be First Aid/ CPR training, meeting wonderful new people, and

providing a much needed service to your community.

You and Your Baby Could be a Roots of Empathy Family

A mother and/or father visits a classroom in a local school. The visits are about 30 minutes long, once a month from October until June. Babies must be 2 to 4 months old in

October.