Just Between Friends 2011

This past weekend Project 33 volunteers were out at "Just Between Friends" to lend a hand to this great event!  Just Between Friends is "the nation's largest children's and maternity consignment sale event" and it promotes reusing and recycling while also helping parents save money during these hard economic times. 

Here we are setting up for the sale on Thursday morning:

We were back on Sunday to help take things down.  Here's the clean-up crew!

Just Between Friends then gave us a huge and generous donation of leftover clothing and toys!!  We, in turn,  will be donating these items to various groups who need them in our community.  First stop, maternity and baby items to Casa Da Vida!  Second stop, toys to Ashley's Toy Closet! And on from there!

Here are some of the donations before being sorted:

And here they are in our storage unit after being sorted and bagged (a big thanks to EZ Storage of Reno for donating storage units to us!!):

Again, a huge thanks to Just Between Friends for the amazing donation, and to our great P33 volunteers who donated hours of their time to help out during this great event!

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Explore Our World: The Northern Nevada American Red Cross

On Friday, March 4th, the Cadets took a trip to the Northern Nevada Chapter of the American Red Cross.  We got to learn more about what exactly the Red Cross does, both locally and globally.  The Northern Nevada American Red Cross chapter area covers 87,000 square miles with a population of over 670,000 people. The chapter territory is from Tonopah north, with the main chapter in Reno and branch offices in Elko, Incline Village and Winnemucca.  We also learned that the Red Cross helps out victims of house fires, and that there are a lot every day, just here in Reno. In fact, house and apartment fires make up the majority of the Red Cross' work here in the US.  The Red Cross also helps out with major disasters, like Hurricane Katrina.  They do a lot of work in other countries, too.

Watching a video that explained all the Red Cross does.

The Cadets also received some goodies during the talk, including a coloring book and a little ambulance "First Aid and CPR for Everyone” kit.  The kit included a CPR compression practice tool, a hand placement diagram, an instructional DVD and other items.  It was very exciting for the Cadets!

Our coloring books

The kit

We would like to thank Mr. Casey for taking the time to give us this talk!  If you are interested in volunteering with the Northern Nevada Chapter of the American Red Cross, you can go here to find out more!

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