Community Events for 2004

 

 

PA Special Olympics - AREA M 2004 Fall Sports Classic Sunday, September 26

Held in Hershey Three Chapter Members help at the Derry Township Event.

 

 

 

 

2004 WALK FOR DIABETES

Small Steps for Big Rewards - Together We'll Find a Cure Sunday, October 3, 2004 -- City Island - Harrisburg Four (4) Members Walked raising over $800.00.

 

 

 

 

 

Susquehanna Service Dogs, a program of Keystone Children & Family Services, trains and provides service dogs and hearing dogs to assist children and adults with physical disabilities to become more independent. Please bring your tabs to the meetings.

 

 

 

 

 

Used Cell Phones

The Susquehanna Valley Chapter of the American Payroll Association is collecting unwanted cell phones. These phones will be reprogrammed to dial only 911 and will be distributed by woman's shelters. Please bring your phones to the meetings.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

We are trying to see if we have enough interest to help with a Habitat for Humanity project. I assume most of you are familiar with Habitat and their efforts to provide low cost housing through volunteer labor. We would be looking for volunteers to work a block of hours on a Saturday probably in September. This would involved going to the location where the home is being built and providing whatever manual labor we were able to do.

 

Other options might involve donations of items from the "Habitat Wish List" if you are interested e-mail me. Robert S. Shank - Comunity Service - rshank@state.pa.us (717) 787-9285.

 

 

Bev spoke to the first class on what to expect to be taken from your paycheck each pay and the forms that Human Resources with give you to fill out upon starting work. We spoke about garnishments and pretax deductions. The big question for this class was Domestic Relations. How it worked and how you go about applying for it. The second and third classes Martha took over. Again she addressed the same issues that we talked about in the first class. This time the big questions were on 401K investing. This class seemed very interested in the ins and outs of investing. The last class that Martha spoke to seemed most interested in tip wage. The wanted to know how it worked, how they would know it they were being paid properly.

 

 

 

 

 

Local Children's Center Receives Model Train Set

The Susquehanna Valley Chapter decided to begin their 2004 Community Service Projects in a unique way. Seven members of the chapter met in mid December to plan a model train set that would be donated to a children’s center, yet to be determined. Heide Daugherty chaired the project.