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Volunteering

Got Something to Say? Say It at Your RVP

01.11.2012 Volunteering

The Rainier Valley Post is a volunteer-run, neighborhood-based forum that thrives on contributions from its readers and other members of the south-end community. We invite and encourage participation in the form of letters to the editor, guest columns, op-ed articles, photos, event notices and more. Letters to the Editor: Send your letter to the editor [...]

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Got Something to Say? Say It at Your RVP

12.26.2011 Volunteering

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Community Group Planning Safety Walks at Light Rail Stations

12.17.2011 911

RAINIER VALLEY – In light of the recent increase in violent street robberies throughout the Rainier Valley light rail corridor, a local community group is planning a series of safety walks at area hot spots. The Southeast Seattle Crime Prevention Council (SSCPC) says it is planning walks – in cooperation with the Seattle Police Department’s [...]

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Help Fight Hunger at Two Rainier Valley Safeway Stores

12.06.2011 Business

RAINIER VALLEY – This month, Southeast Seattle Safeway shoppers can help feed hungry neighbors by participating in the Every Bag Counts food drive at the Rainier Beach and Mt. Baker stores. From now through December 24, Safeway customers can buy a $10 pre-packed bag of food to donate to those struggling with hunger in their [...]

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Community Coming Together Around String of Attacks

12.04.2011 911

By KOMO Staff (RVP news partner) It’s been a week since a popular hair stylist died from a brutal beating in the Rainer Valley area. As we first reported, police are investigating at least nine similar robberies, many involving the theft of electronics like phones. On Sunday, almost 100 people met to talk about how [...]

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New P-Patch Coming to Othello Area

11.27.2011 Arts/Living

NEW HOLLY – There’s a new community garden sprouting up in the Othello neighborhood of Southeast Seattle. The Seattle Department of Neighborhoods, in partnership with community volunteers, is developing a new P-Patch in the north end of John C. Little Park. Neighbors are invited to learn more at a community meeting on Wed., Dec. 7, [...]

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Rainier Valley Food Bank Needs Your Help Feeding Hungry Neighbors

11.17.2011 Volunteering

GENESEE – It may come as a surprise that the tiny little Rainier Valley Food Bank (RVFB) serves almost 11,000 residents in Southeast Seattle each month. On any given Wednesday or Saturday you’ll see a line wrapping around the small façade of the food bank near the corner of Genesee and Rainier Avenue. “We realize [...]

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Seattle Audubon Seeks Volunteers for Environmental Education Program

10.07.2011 Education

Seattle Audubon’s Finding Urban Nature (FUN) program needs volunteers to help at Graham Hill Elementary School in Seward Park. The free program is an environmental education program for 3rd and 4th graders that introduces students to the natural world in their own schoolyard habitats through observation, discovery and scientific inquiry. Volunteers are trained and then [...]

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Rainier Valley Food Bank Looking for a Few Good People

09.13.2011 Volunteering

The Rainier Valley Food Bank (RVFB) is looking for volunteers to help serve 11,000 hungry people each month. The tiny organization – the only food bank left in southeast Seatle – has just three employees, and depends on a cadre of committed, long-term community volunteers who contribute more than 2,000 hours of service every month. [...]

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GIVE: Volunteer at Next Columbia City BeatWalk

07.21.2011 Volunteering

Looking to get involved? Our Give Page is the only comprehensive listing of volunteer opportunities in the Rainier Valley. Designed to link neighbors with local volunteer opportunities, this is the place to start if you’ve got time and/or financial resources and a desire to help improve your community. From the organizers of BeatWalk: Columbia City [...]

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GIVE: City Fruit Needs Volunteers and Fruit Trees for Upcoming Harvest

07.17.2011 Volunteering

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GIVE: Volunteers Needed Saturday for John C. Little Reforestation Project in New Holly

07.15.2011 Volunteering

Looking to get involved? Your RVP’s Give Page is the only comprehensive listing of volunteer opportunities in the Rainier Valley. Designed to link neighbors with local volunteer opportunities, this is the place to start if you’ve got time and/or financial resources and a desire to help improve your community. From New Holly neighbor David Sohlstrom: [...]

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Paint Out Graffiti in Your Neighborhood; Free Supplies Available Saturday

06.30.2011 Volunteering

This Saturday, the City of Seattle will launch a new program providing citizens with the supplies necessary to paint out graffiti in their neighborhood. “Summer Paint Out” runs from July through August. From the City: Whether you are a group or an individual, you can tackle graffiti in your neighborhood. The City of Seattle supports [...]

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Food Bank Benefit Raises More Than $156,000 for Needy Families

06.29.2011 Health & Wellness

Last Saturday, 600 people braved the rain and cold weather to join Asian Counseling and Referral Service’s (ACRS) 21st Annual Walk for Rice at Seward Park. They also raised more than $156,000 for the ACRS Food Bank to purchase rice and other Asian staples. “For many of our clients, the ACRS Food Bank is the [...]

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With Rainier Valley’s Urban Wilderness Project, Local Youth Gain Leadership Skills, Service Learning Hours & More

05.30.2011 Arts/Living

This summer, youth ages 14 to 19 are invited to apply for the Youth Leadership Program with Urban Wilderness Project (UWP), a community-based, volunteer-supported organization headquartered in Columbia City. The two-part program is for those interested in social justice and environmental stewardship while learning to use the arts to become community/cultural activists. “UWP is helping [...]

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GIVE: SEEDArts Seeks Artists and Volunteers for New Valley Vibes Jazz Series (UPDATE)

05.09.2011 Arts/Living

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Bridge to Beach Makeover 2011: Rainier Valley Neighbors Come Together to Clean Up Community

05.07.2011 Arts/Living

By Susan Davis, Executive Director, Rainier Chamber of Commerce and Rainier Chamber Foundation Think back to the glorious warm and sunny day this past Sunday: the warmth in the air, the extra bounce in your step, the smiles on faces as you passed them by on the street, because you too were out soaking up [...]

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MONDAY: Deadline to Register for Bridge to Beach All-Valley Clean Up

04.23.2011 Volunteering

Have you registered for the third annual Bridge to Beach All-Valley Clean Up on Sun., May 1? Everyone’s help is needed as hundreds of Southeast Seattle friends and neighbors pitch-in to clean up streets, parks, gardens and planting strips in our community. The City of Seattle will provide trash grabbers, gloves, trash bags, and garbage [...]

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GIVE: Volunteers Needed for Fun in the Sun Along Chief Sealth Trail

04.22.2011 Development

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SATURDAY: The Future of “Othello Town Center”; an Informal Opportunity to Review Plans & Share Your Opinion

04.12.2011 Development

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Dumping on the Rainier Valley: Learn More at Historical Society’s Upcoming Annual Meeting

04.11.2011 Arts/Living

by John Hoole Community organizing starts with problems — a rat infested apartment, the steady drip, drip from the ceiling of an elementary school after a storm, an intersection with no stoplight where a car hits somebody’s daughter. By the time the Southeast Seattle Community Organization (SESCO) set up shop in the summer of 1975, [...]

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