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A crazy cookie story.

Volunteer Opportunity At Leavenworth Shelter

Domestic Violence Shelter

POSITION TITLE: Shelter Program Volunteer
SUPERVISOR: Shelter Program Volunteer Coordinator
TIME COMMITMENT: 10-12 hours per week
QUALIFICATIONS: Interest in helping troubled military families.
TRAINING: ACS Volunteer Orientation and Shelter training.
DUTIES:
Man crisis intervention hot-line and follow established shelter guidelines.
Complete record of each call and turn in to shelter within one week.
Maintain confidentiality and privacy of shelter clients.
Keep informed of military and civilian community resources and update resource book.
Meet clients in safe place (hospital emergency room or police station) and assist in transition into shelter.
Follow-up with clients in shelter.
Attend monthly volunteer meetings conducted by shelter staff.
Attend required shelter training for crisis intervention.

POSITION TITLE: Shelter Program Volunteer Coordinator
SUPERVISOR: ACS Volunteer Coordinator
TIME COMMITMENT: 10-15 hours per week
QUALIFICATIONS: Interest in helping troubled military families.
TRAINING: ACS Volunteer Orientation and Shelter training.
DUTIES:
Provide a point of contact for donations and food drives on post.
Provide point of contact for recruitment of volunteers interested in working with the shelter.
Provide information about agency programs to increase awareness of domestic violence.
Maintain a current list of volunteers.
Ensure all volunteers have completed ACS Volunteer Orientation and paperwork.
Prepare shelter needs list and disperse to appropriate groups.
Promote local community activities that assist the shelter.
Attend monthly ACS Volunteer Board meetings and monthly shelter volunteer meetings.
Prepare annual after-action report.
Attend required shelter training for crisis intervention.

So Long, Starbucks

Kashmir Patisserie Company replacing Starbucks in Westport.
Congratulations Broadway Cafe.

Skinnies

Christine Hughes has a rare unmistakable voice, evidenced by her latest offering.

Verdi's Requiem

May 16, 17, 18

Stern and the Symphony Chorus present Giuseppe Verdi's Requiem. It will be a powerfully emotional tribute to the Italian poet and novelist Alessandro Manzoni in the setting of a Roman Catholic funeral mass.

And in the meantime...

KC Pet Expo!

A night at the cabaret.


April 19th and 20th
American Royal Center

Once again in 2008, No More Homeless Pets KC is proud to be the presenting sponsor of the KC Pet Expo. The goal of the The Kansas City Pet Expo is to give the public an opportunity to learn about both common and not-so-common animals that are found as pets, and the products and services that are available to provide optimal care for these animals.

Highlights of the 2008 Expo include: The Dock Dog Diving Championship, A Flyball Tournament, Acro-Cats, David Nieves - Reptile Demonstrations, An agility course and Missouri Search and Rescue demonstrations.

Come and join the fun (and check out the Smart Car - we'll have it at the Expo!)
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"a Night at the Cabaret"

June 22nd 2008 Drexel Hall
Cocktails and Appetizers included.
For questions, call Jami at 816-505-4555

Tickets on sale now at the No More Homeless Pets KC Store!

This Is What Your Pile Of Shoes Reminds Me Of

by Marie Potoczny

When I see your pile of shoes--many pairs kicked off under the coffee table and lying in a heap of laces, I am not thinking to myself how lazy you are and i wish you'd put them away. That's probably what you think I am thinking because you say things like, "I should put my shoes away." Rather, your pile of shoes reminds me of pictures I've seen of Auschwitz--black and white photos featuring bins full of shoes--the wearers of whom have since burnt up--barefoot. I have...loved you...not for your...shoes. I have just loved you. And I don't know how to tell you this: how I love you and grieve you at the very same time. You look at me afraid, like I am mad at you for leaving your shoes in a heap on the floor, and I wouldn't care if you left a thousand heaps of shoes on the floor.

Three Graces

They talk about Amazing Graces.
It meant something when I saw these respective faces...

James Taylor (paraphrased)

Guest Post: ClancyJane, Fishing For Bluegill (excerpted)

(C) 2007 Left Bank Review

...and when finally I sleep the wordwake haunts me.

I am hiking down to Punch's pond,
playing Young Pioneers with Rossy Trace
and the weather is too cold
and the riding is too hard on the horses.

We are there and there
there is a shallow water
and an icing over
and a slow suffocation of life beneath.

There is me on one side, and them on the other.


I waken and remember the friend
and remember the fish
and will them to be
above the ice

on the breathing side
with me.

Here is

A buffet.

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Greenway Auction

The date for Immaculata's Greenway Auction has been announced.

About Marcus Licinius Crassus

Bible Study: 71 B.C.E
Sharon Olds, The Unswept Room

After Marcus Licinius Crassus
defeated the army of Spartacus,
he crucified 6,000 men.
That is what the records say,
as if he drove in the 18,000
nails himself. I wonder how
he felt, that day, if he went outside
among them, if he walked that human
woods. I think he stayed in his tent
and drank, and maybe copulated,
hearing the singing being done for him,
the woodwind-tuning he was doing at one
remove, to the six-thousandth power.
And maybe he looked out, sometimes,
to see the rows of instruments,
his orchard, the earth bristling with it
as if a patch in his brain had itched
and this was his way of scratching it
directly. Maybe it gave him pleasure,
and a sense of balance, as if he had suffered,
and now had found redress for it,
and voice for it. I speak as a monster,
someone who today has thought at length
about Crassus, his ecstasy of feeling
nothing while so much is being
felt, his hot lightness of spirit
in being free to walk around
while other are nailed above the earth.
It may have been the happiest day
of his life. If he had suddenly cut
his hand on a wineglass, I doubt he would
have woken up to what he was doing.
It is frightening to think of him suddenly
seeing what he was, to think of him running
outside, to try to take them down,
one man to save 6,000.
If he could have lowered one,
and seen the eyes when the level of pain
dropped like a sudden soaring into pleasure,
wouldn’t that have opened in him
the wild terror of understanding
the other? But then he would have had
5,999
to go. Probably it almost never
happens, that a Marcus Crassus
wakes. I think he dozed, and was roused
to his living dream, lifted the flap
and stood and looked out, at the rustling, creaking
living field—his, like an external
organ, a heart.

Feast Day: St. Cecilia

Ode on Saint Cecilia's Day (excerpted)
by Frank O'Hara

Those who are not very fond
of the tangible evidences of love
shun music and are quiet, doctored by
memory and the martyrdom of Saint Cecilia.
The rest of us play and are played,

willing to follow
motive anywhere.

Managed Care Resources

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Montaigne: Affection Between Father and Child

I would try, by kindly dealings, to foster in my children a warm friendship and unfeigned good feeling towards myself...

Michel De Montaigne, Essays