COMMUNITY SERVICE

If you've got little time, you've got a little time to spare.


Outpost in the Burbs is driven by volunteers - regular, extraordinary folks like yourself - who spend some of their spare time engaged in improving the quality of life in Northern New Jersey. There are volunteer opportunities at the Outpost itself: You can help out with Administration or Fundraising; contribute to our bimonthly newsletter, The Outpost Reader, maintain our Reader mailing list; catalog our would-be circulating listening library; procure donated supplies or equipment; or post flyers that advertise our concerts. As an Outpost volunteer, you also have an opportunity to help produce our nearly-famous concert series by working on Publicity, Hospitality or Entertainment committees. In a nutshell: there's a job waiting for you. If the wider community is where your interest lies, then read on:

 

Starting Off On the Right Foot
(The following article and photograph first appeared
in the May–June 2003 Reader.)

Around the first of the year (2003), Outposter and first grade teacher, Heather Palumbo, contacted me with the information that her school’s first grade classes were collecting food in celebration of their first 100 days of elementary school. Heather also asked me if I would drop by and say a few words to the students. I immediately contacted the Human Needs Pantry in Montclair and asked if they were interested in participating. They were and on February 19 Warren Ross, a food pantry board member and I drove to the James Fallon School in Wayne to meet with the children and thank them for their donations. Warren brought a can of corn with him and traced the path the can takes to get from the field to their table. The children were GREAT! Special thanks to Heather and her fellow 1st grade teacher Eileen Haig for starting out their students with such a great project, and to the students for the 339 items they contributed to the Human Needs Pantry of Montclair.

—Steve Cutaia

Heather Palumbo and Warren Ross (left) of the Human Needs Food Pantry along with her first grade class and Mrs. Haig’s class. Steve Cutaia (right) of The Outpost looks on.

Habitat for Humanity Reprise
(SATURDAY, May 17 2003)

There were smiles all around as Outpost volunteers (clockwise from bottom left) Yem Makonnen, Craig Levine, Mark Nathan, Heather Palumbo, Dina Gavenas, Steve Cutaia and Elliot Feldman built community with 2nd grade teacher, single mom and future homeowner Kimya Jackson. The weather was great, the work energetic and the rewards enormous.


It was a great day October 12, when Outpost volunteers pitched in to make the Grove St. ramps off Route 3 a cleaner place. Why not join the Outpost at a future
Adopt-A-Highway workday?

For more information call Steve at 973-744-6560 or e-mail.

Outpost's Adopt-A-Highway leader, Heather Palumbo (white sweatshirt) takes a break with the other volunteers, having collected an (Outpost) record 17 bags of debris.



If you want additional information or have an idea for a new community service project call Steve at (973-744-6560) or e-mail.




OUTPOST IN THE BURBS
40 S. Fullerton Avenue
(FIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH)
Montclair, NJ 07042-3396
973-744-6560

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