BRIEFLY.Byline: The Register-Guard Dinner, auction to benefit women's shelter A Women's Shelter is a place of temporary refuge and support for women escaping violent situations, such as rape, and domestic violence. Having the ability to leave a situation of violence is valuable for women who are under attack because such situations frequently involve an project A Cottage Grove Cottage Grove, village (1990 pop. 22,935), Washington co., SE Minn., near the St. Croix River; inc. 1965. There is farming (cattle, sheep, corn, and soybeans) and manufacturing (chemicals and machinery). volunteer organization has big plans to aid victims of domestic violence, but needs some help getting started. The Women's Information Network Service, a nonprofit that helps at-risk families, wants to open a shelter for domestic violence victims. Transformation House would provide a safe place for women for up to a year, unlike many shelters programs that limit stays to 30 days, said organizers. "The transitional living Transitional Living for Drug and Alcohol Rehabilitation Transitional living is a restructuring of an old concept. The early centers for living were known as Halfway or Three-Quarter houses and usually were in existence for the provision of shelter for people who were program will enable clients to stay for one year in a supportive, uplifiting environment to allow adequate time for them to heal and plan for a brighter future," said volunteer Julie Agotsch. A benefit dinner and auction will be held today at 5:30 p.m. at the Cottage Grove Elks Lodge. Tickets for the dinner and auction are $12 for adults and $6 for children under age 12. Among the items to be auctioned: a Bandon getaway. WINS is a 2-year-old program providing closing, diapers and baby items to area families. Last year it served 1,800 families. The grass-roots group receives no federal, sate or county support and relies on private donations. Council to hold work party at riverside state park LOWELL - The Middle Fork Willamette Watershed Council is sponsoring a "rain or shine" volunteer work party at Elijah Bristow State Park today Projects at the 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. event will include mulching newly planted trees and working with exposed river rock to construct new habitat for reptiles reptiles terrestrial or aquatic vertebrates which breathe air through lungs and have a skin covering of horny scales. They are poikilothermic, oviparous or ovoviviparous, and, if they have legs they are short and constructed solely for crawling. and amphibians amphibians members of the animal class Amphibia. Includes frogs, toads, newts, salamanders and cecilians all capable of living on land or in water. . Juice and cookies will be provided, but volunteers should bring their own drinking water drinking water supply of water available to animals for drinking supplied via nipples, in troughs, dams, ponds and larger natural water sources; an insufficient supply leads to dehydration; it can be the source of infection, e.g. leptospirosis, salmonellosis, or of poisoning, e.g. . For information, call 937-9800. |
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