VOLUNTEERS.Byline: The Register-Guard United Way Volunteer Connection and RSVP (ReSerVation Protocol) A communications protocol that signals a router to reserve bandwidth for real time transmission. RSVP is designed to clear a path for audio and video traffic, eliminating annoying skips and hesitations. Eugene Eugene, city (1990 pop. 112,669), seat of Lane co., W Oregon, on the Willamette River; inc. 1862. A processing and shipping center in a farming area, the "Emerald City" has lumbering, food-processing, and microchip and other electronics industries. Public Library - assist people signing up for computers; answer basic questions. Requires familiarity with Windows; ability to work well with the public; commit to weekly two-hour shift for minimum of six months. Friends of Eugene Public Library - seeks a bookstore clerk to serve customers at Second Hand Prose used bookstore in the downtown Library. A three-hour shift on Tuesdays or Wednesdays is open. SMART - seeks volunteers throughout Lane County to read to/with two children in kindergarten kindergarten [Ger.,=garden of children], system of preschool education. Friedrich Froebel designed (1837) the kindergarten to provide an educational situation less formal than that of the elementary school but one in which children's creative play instincts would be through third grade, for 30 minutes each. Able to commit to one hour each week. For more information about these or other volunteer opportunities, call the United Way Volunteer Connection and RSVP at 741-6000 or visit www.unitedwaylane.org. Additional opportunities Department of Veterans Affairs Veterans Affairs is a term of the business that deals with the relation between a government and its veteran communities, usually administered by the designated government agency. - seeks volunteers to work at an information desk and laboratory performing administrative duties for the My Healthe Vet program at the VA's Eugene Clinic. Veterans use this resource to access personal health information, record and track personal data and refill refill noun A second allotment of a prescription agent obtained from a pharmacy, which is allowed by the original prescription verb Pharmacology To obtain more of a particular drug, after the initially prescribed amount of the agent has been used or prescriptions. For information, call the 440-1272. |
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