The Town of Mississippi Mills and Mills Community Support Partner on a Volunteer Fair

The Town and Mills Community Support invite you to a Volunteer Fair at the Almonte Old Town Hall on Wednesday May 14^th from 6 – 8 pm. Perhaps you are part of a community group who uses volunteers. Display tables at the volunteer fair are free and can be booked by contacting Bonnie Ostrom 613 256-1077 or [email protected] .

Maybe you have time to contribute to your community as a volunteer. Join us on May 14^th.

It is hard to image a town without volunteers. Volunteers have an enormous impact on the health and well-being of communities worldwide. They get things done! Just think of all the ways that volunteers make a difference in the day-to-day life of our community. They deliver critical services—from serving as volunteer fire fighters or participating in search and rescue, to delivering meals to homebound seniors, to manning the phone lines at domestic violence and sexual assault centers. Here in Mississippi Mills we have a rich cultural life with many volunteer led festivals.

The Town of Mississippi Mills hosts many volunteers who sit on committees of council, assist with a home show and summer fair, offer time to keep the town beautiful or in other positive ways.

Mills Community Support boasts over 200 volunteers who contribute by helping seniors remain in and be a vital part of their community, or by including persons with disabilities in community events, and everything in between from creating community gardens to hosting free concerts in the park.

Here’s a good passage from a United Way website on the benefits of volunteering:

Whether it is important to you to solve a community problem, advance a worthy cause or to develop as a person, volunteering offers many benefits in appreciation for the gift of your time and expertise.

Volunteering can help you:

• Make important networking contacts

• Learn or develop skills

• Teach your skills to others

• Enhance your résumé

• Gain work experience

• Build self-esteem and self-confidence

• Improve your health

• Meet new people

• Feel needed and valued

• Express gratitude for help you may have received in the past from an organization

• Communicate to others that you are ambitious, enthusiastic and care about the community

• Make a difference in someone’s life

• Improve the likelihood that your children will volunteer as an adult

  See you on May 14^{th at} the Mississippi Mills Volunteer Fair!