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your community service hours

August 10th, 2009

Keeping track of your community service hours.
So, beyond the obvious benefit of fulfilling your rank requirement, why bother to actually keep track of your hours? Isn’t it about giving, anyway?
Absolutely!
However, there are good reasons to keep track.
*First: Of course, your rank requirement.
*Second: Several of the merit badges require volunteer hours. If you [...]

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Kitsap County Government

July 30th, 2009

The government of Kitsap County maintains a list of volunteer programs here.
Many of these are for adults, or require long-term commitments. However, if you’re looking for something shorter, try their single day events. This may be adopting-a-park for a day, or providing volunteer hours for a special event. Note: events will not [...]

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Paint Tacoma-Pierce Beautiful

June 21st, 2009

This is a great community service project to do either as an individual or a group. Help paint the houses of low income seniors and people with disabilities. Not only are you helping them, you’re making their whole neighborhood more beautiful.
PTPB will match you with a compatible group. It will generally take [...]

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