Good Deeds

Following are fundraisers, donations and other charitable events happening in the Midlands. E-mail your information about good deeds to connect@owh.com or call 402-444-1040.

Volunteers needed: Hospice House — The Josie Harper Residence needs volunteers to fill the hospitality desk position. Daily tasks would include answering the phone and directing visitors to resident rooms. Volunteers should be 18 and older and comfortable talking on the phone. On-the-job training is provided. Volunteers work four hours a week as they are able. Shifts are generally 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. and 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday. For more information, call Katherine Jarvis at 343-8600.

More food: The annual Harvey Oaks Homeowners Association picnic on Aug. 29 included a fundraiser for Share Our Strength’s Great American Bake Sale No Kid Hungry Campaign. The $200 proceeds were donated to summer and after-school feeding programs.

A cleaner world: Participants at the Sept. 3 United Way Campaign and Day of Caring Kickoff donated 1,140 pounds of personal hygiene items and other goods to help those who are less fortunate.

A world of music: The Sing for China Tour will be at the Sokol Underground at 8 p.m. Wednesday. The tour brings three of China’s biggest bands — Hedgehog, Queen Sea Big Shark and Casino Demon — to the U.S. to raise funds for the charity China AIDS Orphan Fund and spread the word about Chinese rock in America. Tickets, $10, are available at www.etix.com.

Get moving: Saturday’s “Run, Walk and Roll” will raise awareness of the importance of exercise. Registration and check-in will begin at 8:30 a.m. on the Immanuel Medical Center campus. A registration form is at alegent.com/rehab or is available at Immanuel Rehabilitation Center. For more information, call 572-2295 or e-mail jessica.wissink@alegent.org.

Life-A-Thon: Walk, run, ride and glide to raise awareness about organ and tissue donation. The Nebraska Medical Center will host Life-A-Thon 2009 on Saturday at Chalco Hills Recreation Area, near the junction of Interstate 80 and Nebraska Highway 50. The event, which begins with check-in at 8 a.m., will feature several bike tours, a 10K run, a fun walk and in-line skating courses. Free children’s activities, including clowns, face painting, a petting zoo and pony rides, will be available from 10 a.m. to noon. A pancake breakfast will begin at 9:30 a.m.

Tee time: Hooves & Paws Rescue of Glenwood, Iowa, will have a benefit four-person golf scramble beginning at 7:30 a.m. Sept. 27 at Tregaron Golf Course, 13909 Glengary Circle, in Bellevue. The cost is $65 a person or $260 a team. RSVP by Sept. 23 to Bill or Genea Stoops at 712-527-3721 or at hoovespaws.org. All proceeds will be used to care for the horses and large-breed dogs at the no-kill rescue and shelter.

Memory Walk: The Alzheimer’s Association’s annual Memory Walk will be Sept. 20 at Antelope Park in Lincoln. To start a team or make a donation, contact the association at www.memorywalk2009.kintera.org/lincoln or 402-420-2540.

Tug of war: Creighton University’s Delta Zeta Sorority’s annual fundraising Turtle Tug Tournament will run from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. Friday at the Kiewit Fitness Center on campus. Benefiting this year will be Gallaudet University in Washington, D.C. The school is the only four-year liberal arts school in the world devoted to persons who are deaf.

Friends helping others: The New Friends of Omaha raised more than $20,000 for CASA at the group’s Live Laugh Love fundraiser Aug. 29.

Following are fundraisers, donations and other charitable events happening in the Midlands. E-mail your information about good deeds to connect@ owh.com or call 402-444-1040.

Books for sale: Before Good Shepherd Lutheran School, 5071 Center St., finishes its book fair, the public is invited from 3:30 p.m. to 6 p.m. Monday to purchase books. These are appropriate for pre-kindergarten to grade eight, and proceeds will benefit the school.
Bras Across Dodge: Thousands of bras will be strung across the pedestrian bridge at 58th and Dodge Streets Friday to bring attention to breast cancer awareness and this year’s Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure.
Acts of Goodwill: For the 11th year, Younkers and Goodwill Industries have paired to make Younkers stores at Westroads and Oakview Mall drop-off points for Goodwill donations from Wednesday through Sept. 29. Consumers may donate clean, gently used clothing and home textiles at either location.
Benefit dinner: A dinner honoring University of Nebraska Regent Bob Whitehouse will begin at 6:30 p.m. Thursday at Trinity Ralston Community Center. The occasion will honor his contributions to the community. Reservations, $100, are required by calling Trinity United Methodist Church at 331-4054. Proceeds will benefit the Trinity Ralston Community Center.
Help for school: The seventh annual Jaywalk to benefit Jesuit Middle School of Omaha will be Saturday at Creighton University. The 5K run will begin at 8:30 a.m. and the walk at 8:45 a.m. in Deglman Circle at 24th and California Streets. A pancake feed and check presentation will take place at Morrison Soccer Stadium after the walk/run. For more information or to register, visit www.creighton.edu/Jaywalk.
Pass the syrup: A Woman’s Touch Pregnancy Counseling Center will have a fundraising breakfast featuring the Pancake Man and a carnival from 9 a.m. to noon Saturday at the Bellevue Public School Lied Activity Center, 2700 Arboretum Drive, in Bellevue. Join Teens’ Touch at a Carnival for Life with clowns and face painting. Adults are $5.50; those 12 and younger are $4, with a family maximum of $25.
Campus donations: More than 450 items have been collected for the homeless in Kearney, Neb., as a result of a Rural AmeriCorps project. Members of the south central Nebraska Rural AmeriCorps, located at the University of Nebraska at Kearney, collected basic hygiene products that were donated to the Salvation Army. In addition, nearly $50 cash was donated.
If you love Christmas: The Bluffs Arts Council needs designers and decorators to participate in the 2009 Festival of Trees, a fundraiser for the council. The festival will be Nov. 21-22 at Harrah’s Convention Center in Council Bluffs. Featured will be more than 75 decorated trees, an Elves’ Workshop for children, Santa Claus, continuous stage entertainment, a breakfast for families, holiday food workshops and more. The festival theme is “It’s All about Creativity.” For more information or to be a sponsor or volunteer, call Laural Ronk at 712-328-4992 or Paula Steenson at 402-346-3950.
Rocking for literature: The fifth annual Downtown Omaha Lit Fest will host an opening night party and Rocking Chair-ity fundraiser at 6:30 p.m. Friday at the W. Dale Clark Library, 215 S. 15th St. The Lit Fest theme is the “Sordid Arts of the Cheap Paperback.” The opening celebration will feature “Twisted Lives and Tormented Loves: Savage Art inspired by Jim Thompson.” The Rocking Chair-ity fundraiser will feature food, drink and artful interpretation of novels inspired by the work of the nation’s leading writers of urban fiction. Omaha artists have painted 13 rocking chairs based on popular urban speculative fiction novels. The chairs will be auctioned. Proceeds will go toward the Urban Speculative Fiction Literary Foundation’s Word Warrior Writing Workshops. For more information visit rockingchairity.com.
Start talking and walking: Saturday will bring the National Ovarian Cancer Coalition’s third annual “Break the Silence” walk. Check-in will start at 7:30 a.m. for the 9 a.m. walk at Zorinsky Lake, 156th and F Streets. Registration is $25 for adults and $15 for children 14 and younger.

Compiled by Sue Story Truax

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