2012 Totals:
372 as of 1/2/2013 final count for 2012
371.5as of 12/24/2012
367.5 as of 12/19/12
347.25 as of 10/29/12
317 as of 10/10/2012
300 as of 9/30/2012
The 2012 list of organizations that I have volunteered for
FIRST Robotics put me at 100 hours.
Art On The Square
Midwest Salute To The Arts
Circus Flora put me over 200 with 206.75
KDHX
Sheldon Concert Hall
LouFest
Kiwanis of O'Fallon and
Fairview Heights
O'Fallon, Illinois Adopt a Street Litter Pickup
Red Cross
Spencer Kennel and Pet Rescue
Toastmasters Speech Contest
Shiloh Homecoming
U City Jazz Fest
Strange Folk Festival 300th hour.
Pork With Passion
Wine, Dine, And Jazz
Salvation Army Sign up here.
Rotary
Places having fund raisers in combination with others
The Shanti
Cancelled Events
Wingsfest - rained out by remnants of Hurricane Isaac. Lesson learned is that if you plan a hurricane, time out the residual rain better.
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Wednesday, January 2, 2013
Monday, August 27, 2012
Art, Tie Dye, LouFest, and Running Totals
Busy weekend over August 24-26, 2012. Hung out at the Midwest Salute To The Arts, The Shanti & KDHX Tie Dye Fundraiser, and LouFest. Pretty neat. Got to help out artists on Friday and Sunday and talk with them. Got to meet a neat lady that makes didgeridoos. Also tore down the event and consolidated rental equipment and electrical cords.
The Shanti and KDHX tie dye event was cool. Got to tie dye a few shirts for other volunteer events. Turned out pretty well. Pretty simple process of scrunching up your shirt and wrapping rubber bands where you want them. It's kinda cool knowing that I can now tie dye my own shirts. The "tie dye" shirts you can buy at the store seem so generic. They all look the same. When you actually do your own tie dye you get the imperfections and that's the way it should be. No two shirts should ever be the same. Similar at most but very unique and different. A lot like boomerangs in that regard. No two boomerangs should ever be exactly the same, as much as they look like it. Boomerangs should fly similar but different. All part of the fun in tie dye and boomerangs.
Got to hang out at LouFest. Saw Little Barrie, Son Volt, Phantogram, and Dinosaur Jr. Lots of great music at the event. Meet a lot of fans of KDHX as well. Gave away a lot of stickers, fans, and station info. Even wandered the crowds to give away stickers. The musician were very melodious and gave me an idea for a new KDHX give away. The idea has been passed up to the station folks and we shall see where it goes.
I do enjoy the process of spending a weekend volunteering at local events and radio stations. It gives people a chance to meet their community.
On a side note, it does get me to wonder about organized service groups. I am a member of the Kiwanis and frequently hear about Rotary. Seems like they are all in need of members but I still never hear about them, at least from members themselves. If I weren't a member of Kiwanis, I probably would not know about them, nor Rotary. Attendance policy is another story.
Think I will try to include stats of how far I've gone hour wise with volunteering as I do them. I'm not going to retroactivly update posts but I will continue them forward from here. Therefore I will give the stats as of the details of this post. Started logging at the 2011 Midwest Salute To The Arts last August. Moving forward I will only post the cumulative for 2012 and then at some point stand out the year end total.
The totals as of the completion of these events are:
Event year (Aug 2011 to Aug 2012 Midwest Salute To The Arts): 330 hours
Cumulative 2012: 247
The Shanti and KDHX tie dye event was cool. Got to tie dye a few shirts for other volunteer events. Turned out pretty well. Pretty simple process of scrunching up your shirt and wrapping rubber bands where you want them. It's kinda cool knowing that I can now tie dye my own shirts. The "tie dye" shirts you can buy at the store seem so generic. They all look the same. When you actually do your own tie dye you get the imperfections and that's the way it should be. No two shirts should ever be the same. Similar at most but very unique and different. A lot like boomerangs in that regard. No two boomerangs should ever be exactly the same, as much as they look like it. Boomerangs should fly similar but different. All part of the fun in tie dye and boomerangs.
Got to hang out at LouFest. Saw Little Barrie, Son Volt, Phantogram, and Dinosaur Jr. Lots of great music at the event. Meet a lot of fans of KDHX as well. Gave away a lot of stickers, fans, and station info. Even wandered the crowds to give away stickers. The musician were very melodious and gave me an idea for a new KDHX give away. The idea has been passed up to the station folks and we shall see where it goes.
I do enjoy the process of spending a weekend volunteering at local events and radio stations. It gives people a chance to meet their community.
On a side note, it does get me to wonder about organized service groups. I am a member of the Kiwanis and frequently hear about Rotary. Seems like they are all in need of members but I still never hear about them, at least from members themselves. If I weren't a member of Kiwanis, I probably would not know about them, nor Rotary. Attendance policy is another story.
Think I will try to include stats of how far I've gone hour wise with volunteering as I do them. I'm not going to retroactivly update posts but I will continue them forward from here. Therefore I will give the stats as of the details of this post. Started logging at the 2011 Midwest Salute To The Arts last August. Moving forward I will only post the cumulative for 2012 and then at some point stand out the year end total.
The totals as of the completion of these events are:
Event year (Aug 2011 to Aug 2012 Midwest Salute To The Arts): 330 hours
Cumulative 2012: 247
Sunday, January 1, 2012
2011 Volunteer Approximate Stats.
Since I do a lot of Volunteering I figure that I would post how many hours that I have put up in a consolidated post.
August 2011 through December 2011 Total: 90 Hours
These are the events that I have logged information for. These are what contribute to the 90 hours of volunteer time. I have volunteering at the following:
Midwest Salute To The Arts
Kiwanis of O'Fallon and Fairview Heights
Red Cross
Salvation Army
Pork With Passion
Wingsfest
KDHX
Sheldon Concert Hall
Shiloh Homecomming
Strange Folk Festival
Belleville Chilli Cookoff
Unfortunately I didn't think to start logging events till August of 2011. Not fully sure of all the organizations that I helped out before August of 2011 but I'm certain that I did help out with the following organizations. It also means that I probably have more that 100+ hours of volunteer time for 2011. Alas I'll never be sure. It all helped me get good at volunteering. Keep an eye out for 2012's stats
Pre-Logging
FIRST Robotics
Art On The Square
Wine, Dine, And Jazz
August 2011 through December 2011 Total: 90 Hours
These are the events that I have logged information for. These are what contribute to the 90 hours of volunteer time. I have volunteering at the following:
Midwest Salute To The Arts
Kiwanis of O'Fallon and Fairview Heights
Red Cross
Salvation Army
Pork With Passion
Wingsfest
KDHX
Sheldon Concert Hall
Shiloh Homecomming
Strange Folk Festival
Belleville Chilli Cookoff
Unfortunately I didn't think to start logging events till August of 2011. Not fully sure of all the organizations that I helped out before August of 2011 but I'm certain that I did help out with the following organizations. It also means that I probably have more that 100+ hours of volunteer time for 2011. Alas I'll never be sure. It all helped me get good at volunteering. Keep an eye out for 2012's stats
Pre-Logging
FIRST Robotics
Art On The Square
Wine, Dine, And Jazz
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