Dear Friends of Respite Volunteers, 

Hope you are enjoying your Summertime!

Please view our facebook page for many photos from our For the Love of Dads 5K Run Walk held in June at Baker College in Owosso. Thank you to everyone who participated.

We are at the point of really needing more volunteers throughout Shiawassee County. Right now we do not have enough volunteers to provide help to all the patients asking for our services. Please consider volunteering with our program if you are not yet a volunteer. If you are already a Respite Volunteer, please consider who you know that would also enjoy giving back in this way and visiting someone in their own community. Our volunteers tell us they are uplifted by the chance to serve and feel blessed to be able to help the person they are matched with. Please call to register for a training. 

We would like to get more Volunteer Training locations scheduled. So if your church has not yet hosted a Respite Volunteer Training and you think this would be a possibility, please check this out and give us a call. We also need help providing the light lunches for our Volunteer Trainings. We usually hope for about 10 persons to attend the training, so several persons from a church, or a specific group at a church, or a business could plan the light meal as a donation to Respite Volunteers. 

Our Rock-a-thon for Respite is scheduled for Tues. Sept. 14th from 11 a.m. till 2 p.m. Volunteers and friends of Respite Volunteers seek pledge donations to Respite Volunteers in advance. We ask that participants bring their rocking chair, and we rock from 11 a.m. till 2 p.m. with lunch provided. Chair massages, manicures and entertainment will be provided. Call or e-mail our office for the sample letter.

The next Purse Party Bingo is tentatively scheduled for Thurs. Oct. 14th in Owosso. Doors will open at 6 p.m. Twenty purses with a retail value of at least $40. will be won by bingo games. Refreshments will be provided. More information to follow. 

The Owosso Postcards to benefit Respite Volunteers are available at many area businesses. During the summer we are continuing to sell coupon vouchers to Simpson Brothers Greenhouse in Ovid at the Respite Volunteer Office. The vouchers can be taken to Simpson Brothers Greenhouse to pick out your own beautiful flowers, (we will receive 15% of your purchase). We are planning for our “Comfort Cookbook” to be on sale by November. We are asking for $100 sponsorships to cover the printing of the Comfort Cookbook and these can be in memory or honor of a loved one or special volunteer.

Please see the Citgo fuelinggood.com website to vote for gas cards for Respite Volunteers. Please see the Art Van contest for nonprofits also and vote for Respite Volunteers. Please see www.gazelle.com where you can donate computers, cell phones etc. and the value is donated to Respite Volunteers. Also you are now able to register your Kroger card with the Kroger Community Rewards program to donate a portion of your total purchase to Respite Volunteers. Please register online at krogercommunityrewards.com. And please bring in your VGs Grocery receipts too. 


Helen Howard