The committee reached out to "a mix of nonprofits," Miller said. Among them were the Literacy Coalition of Palm Beach County, the Caregiving Youth Project and the Area Agency on Aging. Brockman touted the event in her newsletter column, and they used the in-house TV channel, posters and an e-mail blast to spread the word.
"We made announcements in the men's and ladies' card rooms in the last couple of weeks," Miller said. They even sweetened the pot with raffle prizes.
There was a steady stream of men and women members when the ballroom doors opened at 3 p.m. "We expect a bigger crowd later, after mah-jongg," Brockman said. All told, about 125 people came through the fair that day, Miller reported afterward.
One of them was Linda Yablon, who moved into Polo Club four months ago. She was looking into medical volunteer work because she worked in that field and volunteered for Ronald McDonald House. “I have a Florence Nightingale complex," she said as she filled out a form at the hospital table.
Dr. William Shaw doesn't practice urology anymore, but he still has an active license and wants to use his medical skills and great bedside manner as a volunteer. So instead of shopping around for the right place to offer his services, he simply filled out a form for Boca Raton Community Hospital on Jan. 12 at the Volunteer Fair in The Polo Club where he has lived for two years. "I'm looking for things to do, and I don't want to be paid," said Shaw, 69, who thought he might help "allay the fears" of patients who have medical conditions in his specialty.
KUDOS to our members who volunteer to enrich the lives of others.
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