VOLUNTEERS NEEDED

Newtown Youth Services is sponsoring a Red Cross Blood Drive on Thursday, July 5, at Edmond Town Hall from 8:30 am to 7 pm. We need volunteers to work that day, hang up posters, and recruit donors.

Please call NYS at 270-4335 to volunteer or to schedule an appointment to donate blood.

(Not only do we ask for your time and your money, now we need your blood too.)

PARENT PROGRAMS

SIBLING GROUP: Special Needs/Learning Differences, Thursday, July 19, 6:30 pm – it’s a party! Please call 270-4335.

All other Parenting Groups are on hiatus. Please look for them in the fall.

4-H

Let’s get ready for GARDEN SEASON! Volunteers are needed to tend and harvest the garden this summer. Please contact Jonathan Aragones at NYS for details.

ATTENTION HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS

Opportunities For Community Service Awards

Monday through Saturday, 9 to 11 am, at Plymouth Hall, any time you can give would be greatly appreciated.

If you like deer ticks, mosquitoes, sunburned shoulders, dirty fingernails, slug slime, muddy shoes, poison ivy, heat stroke, sweaty, frizzy hair, and an experience you will cherish until the day you die, the Newtown’s Youth Garden is for you!

Our projects include a farmers’ market garden, a wildlife habitat garden for a daycare center, and a nature trail for a local retirement community with the possibility of more projects added when we get your ideas.

We need your help with the gardens, starting from the planning, then to the planting and finally to the maintaining. You will learn about vegetable gardening and produce marketing, flower garden designing, and wildlife habitat observation gardens.

You may also be interested in assisting the 4H garden club. The 4H club consists of elementary and middle school students who happen to idolize high school students and would be thrilled to work with you. Besides working in the garden, the 4H clubs work with animals and learn about Newtown’s diverse environment. To volunteer, please call Jonathan Aragones at NYS at 270-4335.

YOUTH GROUP MEETINGS

All Youth Groups have concluded their meetings for this year. Membership is always open. Watch for meeting dates in the fall.

Thanks to all who participated for your time and support. Have a great summer!

All programs will take place at Newtown Youth Services, 41-A Main Street, unless noted. To register, or for further information, please call 270-4335.