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Volunteers band together on project to investigate owls
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — After three fruitless journeys into the darkness, Sonia Martinez and her daughter, Isabel, finally hit paydirt. There, in mist nets the Martinezes had helped install an hour earlier, were two tiny northern saw-whet owls. Lured to the Carpenter St....
Hospice staff, volunteers make 'an indelible difference'
WINCHESTER, Va. (AP) — It’s National Hospice and Palliative Care Month, a time to give thanks to the people who bring dignity to our final days. In Winchester, the nonprofit Blue Ridge Hospice has 250 staff members and 160 active volunteers who work every day to help...
Woman lives in shack to fundraise for rural housing repairs
AUBURN, Ala. (AP) — For five days, Rev. Lisa Pierce lived out of a shack in downtown Auburn. The makeshift shelter on wheels is big enough to fit a single bed, has no electricity and relies on tarps hanging over the roof and windows to keep out rain. While Pierce has a...
NC’s transportation dept. collects a record amount of trash
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — The North Carolina Department of Transportation says it has set an annual record for the amount of trash collected along state roads and highways — and the year isn’t over yet. More than 11 million pounds (5 million kilograms) of litter have...
Man builds backcountry skiing destination on family's land
PIKE, N.H. (AP) — A New Hampshire man is converting his family's land into a backcountry skiing destination with the help of local organizations and volunteers. Warren Bunnell's grandfather bought land in the small village of Pike, 5 miles from Haverhill, about 40 years...
Artist recruits 300 for nude photo near Dead Sea in Israel
JERUSALEM (AP) — Some 300 male and female volunteers stripped naked and donned white body paint for an artistic installation meant to draw attention to the shrinking Dead Sea. They posed Sunday for the American photographer Spencer Tunick, who has done similar...
Valles Caldera volunteers in race to document dendroglyphs
LOS ALAMOS, N.M. (AP) — The haunting calls of bugling bull elk pervade the autumn air, echoing across the grass valleys and forested lava domes of Valles Caldera National Preserve as a cadre of volunteers spreads out in search of needles in a nearly 90,000-acre haystack. ...
Relatives make painstaking searches for Mexico's missing
CUAUTLA, Mexico (AP) — Two young volunteers dressed in long sleeves, jeans and face masks dig into the steep side of stream bank reeking of sewage that flows from a shopping center. Neither the overpowering stench, the piles of garbage, nor the suffocating heat stops...
Reforestation set for historic New Orleans neighborhood
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A nonprofit is seeking volunteers to help plant trees and restore a historic New Orleans neighborhood this weekend. Sustaining Our Urban Landscape, or SOUL, will launch its reforesting park project Saturday in the Pontchartrain Park neighborhood with...
UI seeks volunteers to help Kinnick Stadium staff shortage
IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — With three more home football games to go and Kinnick Stadium facing severe staffing shortages, the University of Iowa has sent out a call for “game day volunteers” willing to work at stadium gates, in sections for disabled spectators and in premium club areas...
