Our 2007 Volunteers of the Year!     Our Chapter Volunteer of the Year: Rocky Holbert Rocky and his son Hunter (shown above accepting the award for his dad from Executive Director, Mike Williams) have mowed and maintained our yard for two years.  The yard looks great and Mike is especially happy since he was having to cut the grass himself before Rocky volunteered. Thank you Rocky and Hunter! Our Administrative Volunteer of the Year: Sylvia Mason Sylvia headed up our very successful migration to Quickbooks for our Chapter finances. This change has provided us more accessible financial information and saved us significant money on outside accountants! Our Blood Services Volunteer of the Year: Priscilla Karvonen Priscilla is one of our most involved and dependable canteen volunteers as well as being a disaster volunteer along with her husband, Thomas.  She has helped in recruiting and staffing blood drives and always adds an enthusiastic presence to whatever she does! Our Disaster Services Volunteer of the Year: Ron Simpson If there is a disaster occurance anywhere in the country that requires additional personnel, you can bet that Ron will be ready to go!  Ron began volunteering during Katrina and since then he has assisted with storm responses in Washington State, Texas, Massachussetts, Kansas and multiple locations in between.  Ron also pulls rotation on the local Disaster Action Team. Our Health and Safety Services Volunteer of the Year: Charlie Shook Charlie has volunteered as an unpaid instructor teaching scores of people in first aid, CPR and AED.  When he's scheduled to teach he arrives at least an hour early to get everything set up just right and he doesn't leave until the classroom is cleaner than when he arrived...even the trash is emptied!  We receive letters complementing his classes and he has been a key player in developing our Wilderness First Aid and Pet First Aid classes. Thank you volunteers!  You ARE the American Red Cross!

Current Volunteer Opportunities (contact Shelby Lands, Administrator, for more information or to apply) ************************************************ Office administrative opportunities: Reception desk every other Friday (some other schedules may be available). Includes greeting visitors, answering phones, making appointments for class or blood drive schedules, assisting staff with various clerical tasks.  Must be friendly, professional and able to interact effectively with people. Health and Safety opportunities: Become trained and certified as a Red Cross instructor to teach First Aid, CPR and other community health classes. We need Spanish/English bi-lingual instructors! Blood Services opportunities: Greeters or canteen workers for blood drives. Make phone contacts to past blood donors to schedule appointments for upcoming blood drives. We need Spanish/English bi-lingual blood drive workers or translators. Disaster Services opportunities: Get trained and involved as a disaster services worker. Opportunities for local and national disaster responses.  These volunteers assist victims of hurricanes, floods, winter storms and help operate emergency shelters.  They also assist families forced from their homes by fire with shelter, food, clothing and other emergency needs. General administrative and other opportunities: Nurse to do blood pressure checks at health fairs and Chapter events. Volunteer as a Red Cross representative at the regional Veterans Hospital in Asheville.  We need someone to help with bingo games on Thursday afternoons.  Also need donations of personal supplies, etc. for patients. Other opportunities also available.  Ask how you can help. Volunteer to donate blood. Volunteer to help support our operations financially. Become involved with our fund-raising events as a planner and worker. For more information, or to apply, please contact our administrator, Shelby Lands at 693-5605 or by email: shelbyl@hcredcross.net.     From the paid staff of the Henderson County Chapter of the American Red Cross, "THANK YOU to all of our volunteers!"