New Beginnings Church is planning its second annual back-to-school community outreach project and is looking for donations.
The church will have a celebration from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Aug. 20 at Clark Park, 2400 Lombard Ave. in Everett.
Music, games, face-painting and food will be offered, and the church would like to provide haircuts and supplies for kids headed back to school.
To donate school supplies or equipment, call the church at 425-252-7554 or visit it at 2531 Oakes Ave.
Get Movin’ gets going again this summer
Get Movin’, the Snohomish County program launched last summer to get kids to exercise, begins from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday at Everett Mall.
There’s no charge to sign up, but parents must be on hand to register their kids.
There will be free Get Movin’ T-shirts for the first 1,200 kids, a health fair and raffles for bikes, jump ropes and other prizes. Similar to a summer reading program, it offers incentives to kids to be active for at least 30 minutes five times a week.
The half-hour of activity five times a week can be divided into 10-minute segments. Incentive prizes include free passes for swimming, bowling, climbing or skating.
Families can register either at the Saturday kickoff event or until July 16 at local YMCAs, parks and recreation departments and the Providence Pavilion for Women and Children. For more information, call Providence Everett Family Resource Center at 425-304-6000.
The program was inspired by The Herald’s yearlong series of articles on childhood obesity.
Foster care review board asks for help
The Foster Care Citizens Review Board needs retired professionals to volunteer four to eight hours per week.
The board is a part of the Snohomish County Juvenile Court system and performs the three-, six- and nine-month reviews of kids in foster care in the county. The focus is to determine how the kids are doing and if the parents are complying with court-ordered services.
For details, call 425-388-7910.
Volunteer at Stanwood Senior Center
The Stanwood Senior Center is looking for volunteers.
Weekly helpers are needed to call, call back, sell pull tabs, cashier and operate the kitchen concessions. The sessions are 11 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Thursdays or 6 to 9:30 p.m. Sundays.
Also, the center’s thrift store needs volunteers to sort donated items and run the cash register. Thrift Store hours are 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Saturday. The center is at 7430 276th St. NW in Stanwood. For details, call 360-629-7403.
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