If you live in the Bay Area and want something to do this weekend, you can easily sign up to volunteer with Hands On Bay Area Day on Saturday. It’s a fun event. We have 1800 people registered and room for 200 more.

If you can’t attend a project, please sponsor me and make a donation. I am just $65 shy of my $500 goal. Please consider giving. It’s easy! You may make an online donation with a credit card, or email me to get an address to send a check (kathryn at pobox dot com). Your donation may be anonymous if you wish. I know an average of 70 people visit this blog daily, and many are regular readers. I would be so grateful if you would “pay it forward” with a small donation to to Hands On Bay Area. This is our biggest fundraising event of the year, and we are $13,000 short of our goal.

Your donation can make a difference:

• $20 — 175 low-income youth would have help with their homework
• $50 — 460 children and adults with special needs would learn a new skill
• $100 — 600 lonely seniors would have someone other than their doctor to visit them
• $1,000 — 25,000 homeless families could sit down to a warm dinner

Any amount can be donated (as little as one dollar). Come on, do it for me? Pretty please?

My AmeriCorps comrades and I worked hard on a Petaluma farm in June 2006. From left to right: Michael Cook, Ambrosia Studley, me, Rachel Stegemoeller, and Joshua Faller. We live to serve!