As part of the year-long strategic planning effort that will chart the future of CCE in the challenging times ahead, a Strategic Planning Survey has been created. Schuyler County residents are encouraged to participate, but please only submit one survey per household, whether it be online or in paper form. (If you prefer to fill out a paper survey, please stop by our office.) The survey will be available until Friday, September 11, 2009.
CLICK HERE TO TAKE THE SURVEY
Wednesday, August 26, 2009
Tuesday, August 25, 2009
H1N1 Virus FAQ's
Information for RSVP volunteers relating to Swine Flu (N1H1)*
FAQ’s
What are the signs and symptoms of this virus in people?
A significant number of people who have been infected with this virus also have reported diarrhea and vomiting.
How can I protect my health?
When should I Get Medical Help? Emergency warning signs that need urgent medical attention.
*Source: www.flu.gov
FAQ’s
What are the signs and symptoms of this virus in people?
- Fever
- Cough
- Sore throat
- Runny or stuffy nose
- Body aches
- Headache
- Chills and fatigue
A significant number of people who have been infected with this virus also have reported diarrhea and vomiting.
How can I protect my health?
- Cover your nose and mouth with a tissue when you cough or sneeze. Throw the tissue in the trash after you use it.
- Wash your hands often with soap and water, especially after you cough or sneeze. Alcohol-based hand cleaners are also effective.
- Avoid touching your eyes, nose or mouth. Germs spread this way.
- Try to avoid close contact with sick people.
- If you are sick with flu-like illness, CDC recommends that you stay home for at least 24 hours after your fever is gone except to get medical care or for other necessities. (Your fever should be gone without the use of a fever-reducing medicine.) Keep away from others as much as possible to keep from making others sick.
When should I Get Medical Help? Emergency warning signs that need urgent medical attention.
- Difficulty breathing or shortness of breath
- Pain or pressure in the chest or abdomen
- Sudden dizziness
- Confusion
- Severe or persistent vomiting
- Flu-like symptoms improve but then return with fever and worse cough
*Source: www.flu.gov
Friday, August 14, 2009
Household Hazardous Waste Day
Household Hazardous Waste Day for SCHUYLER COUNTY residents will be on Saturday, September, 26.
Registration begins this Monday, August 17 and runs thru Friday, August 28. Pre-registration is required.
For more information, click here.
If you'd like to volunteer at the 9/26 event, please contact Jen at 535-7105 or JLG228@cornell.edu
Registration begins this Monday, August 17 and runs thru Friday, August 28. Pre-registration is required.
For more information, click here.
If you'd like to volunteer at the 9/26 event, please contact Jen at 535-7105 or JLG228@cornell.edu
Tuesday, August 11, 2009
Do You Love Animals?
Fundraising and PR Events
- Earth Day
- Cans for Cats
- Rummage Sale
- Montour Falls Fireman’s Parade
- Cardboard Boat Race
- Art for Animals – Art Auction
- Holiday Events
- Photos with Santa at Pet Smart
- Pancake Breakfast – Moose Lodge
Fostering cats and kittens
Adoption Days
- Petsmart
- Spay/Neuter Clinic
- Special adoption Weekends
Cat Care
- Feeding, cleaning and cuddling
Spay/Neuter Clinics
Rabies Clinics
Groundskeeping
- Spring and Fall Clean up Days
Transportation
- Cats for Spay/neuter clinic
- Cats to and from Petsmart
Newsletter
- Writing
- Assembly
- Distribution
Correspondence
- Thank you letters etc
- Special Mailings
If you'd like to help out, please contact RSVP at 607-535-7105!
CASA 101 Training
Have you ever wanted to make a difference in a child’s life? Well, here is your chance!! CASA of the Southern Tier, Inc. is offering the CASA 101 Advocate training.
CASA Advocate volunteers are trained members of the community who advocate for the best interests of abused and neglected children in Family Court. The CASA volunteer follows a child’s case as it moves through Family Court. The CASA volunteer research the case, learning everything they can about the child’s special situation. The CASA volunteer then makes recommendations to the judge on what’s best for the child’s future. CASA volunteers are dedicated to ensuring children find a safe, permanent and nurturing home as quickly as possible.
Schedule Day and time:
Tuesdays and Thursdays from 6:00PM to 9:00PM
Dates:
September 15, 17, 22, 24, 29 and October 1st, 6, 8, 13, and 15 Refreshments provided.
Location:
Big Flats Community Center, 476 Maple Street, Big Flats, NY
Application, interview and background checks required. Independent Study also available.
If you want to help children but do not have the time to commit to becoming an Advocate, consider becoming a Board member.
If you are interested in becoming a CASA Advocate or CASA Board member, please call RSVP at 607-535-7105. Thank you for your support to abused and neglected children in our community.
CASA Advocate volunteers are trained members of the community who advocate for the best interests of abused and neglected children in Family Court. The CASA volunteer follows a child’s case as it moves through Family Court. The CASA volunteer research the case, learning everything they can about the child’s special situation. The CASA volunteer then makes recommendations to the judge on what’s best for the child’s future. CASA volunteers are dedicated to ensuring children find a safe, permanent and nurturing home as quickly as possible.
Schedule Day and time:
Tuesdays and Thursdays from 6:00PM to 9:00PM
Dates:
September 15, 17, 22, 24, 29 and October 1st, 6, 8, 13, and 15 Refreshments provided.
Location:
Big Flats Community Center, 476 Maple Street, Big Flats, NY
Application, interview and background checks required. Independent Study also available.
If you want to help children but do not have the time to commit to becoming an Advocate, consider becoming a Board member.
If you are interested in becoming a CASA Advocate or CASA Board member, please call RSVP at 607-535-7105. Thank you for your support to abused and neglected children in our community.
Thursday, July 30, 2009
If Facebook Can't Help, Maybe Social Security Can
By Elizabeth Wertime
Social Security Public Affairs Specialist in Albany, NY
Last night I was thrilled to reconnect with my childhood best friend on Facebook. Since I joined Facebook several months ago, I have been able to reconnect with long lost friends from my alma mater, North Warren Central School. Such surprise connections can be fun and conjure up memories of times forgotten. But what if you have a more serious situation and you need to locate a particular person? Perhaps Social Security can help.
Social Security is in the business of paying benefits, not reconnecting people. But, in some cases, we will do what we can to help.
We will attempt to forward a letter to a missing person under circumstances involving a matter of great importance, such as a death or serious illness in the missing person's immediate family, or a sizeable amount of money that is due the missing person. Also, the circumstances must concern a matter about which the missing person is unaware and would undoubtedly want to be informed.
In less dire cases, such as when a son, daughter, brother or sister want to establish contact, we will write to the missing person, rather than forwarding a letter.
Because this service is not related in any way to a Social Security program, its use must be limited so that it does not interfere with our regular program activities.
There is no charge for forwarding letters that have a humanitarian purpose. However, we must charge a $25 fee to cover our costs when the letter is to inform the missing person of money or property due. This fee is not refundable. The fee should be paid by a check made payable to the Social Security Administration.
We must read each letter we forward to ensure that it contains nothing that could prove embarrassing to the missing person if read by a third party. Letters should be in plain, unstamped, unsealed envelopes showing only the missing person's name. Nothing of value should be enclosed.
To try to locate an address in our records, we’ll need the missing person's Social Security number or identifying information such as date and place of birth, father's name, and the mother's full birth name.
Unless a missing person is receiving benefits under a program Social Security administers, we would not have a home address for them. Usually, we forward a letter in care of the employer who most recently reported earnings for the person.
Requests for letter forwarding should be sent to:
Social Security Administration
Letter Forwarding
P.O. Box 33022
Baltimore, MD 21290-3022
Learn more about this service at:
www.socialsecurity.gov/foia/html/ltrfwding.htm
Social Security Public Affairs Specialist in Albany, NY
Last night I was thrilled to reconnect with my childhood best friend on Facebook. Since I joined Facebook several months ago, I have been able to reconnect with long lost friends from my alma mater, North Warren Central School. Such surprise connections can be fun and conjure up memories of times forgotten. But what if you have a more serious situation and you need to locate a particular person? Perhaps Social Security can help.
Social Security is in the business of paying benefits, not reconnecting people. But, in some cases, we will do what we can to help.
We will attempt to forward a letter to a missing person under circumstances involving a matter of great importance, such as a death or serious illness in the missing person's immediate family, or a sizeable amount of money that is due the missing person. Also, the circumstances must concern a matter about which the missing person is unaware and would undoubtedly want to be informed.
In less dire cases, such as when a son, daughter, brother or sister want to establish contact, we will write to the missing person, rather than forwarding a letter.
Because this service is not related in any way to a Social Security program, its use must be limited so that it does not interfere with our regular program activities.
There is no charge for forwarding letters that have a humanitarian purpose. However, we must charge a $25 fee to cover our costs when the letter is to inform the missing person of money or property due. This fee is not refundable. The fee should be paid by a check made payable to the Social Security Administration.
We must read each letter we forward to ensure that it contains nothing that could prove embarrassing to the missing person if read by a third party. Letters should be in plain, unstamped, unsealed envelopes showing only the missing person's name. Nothing of value should be enclosed.
To try to locate an address in our records, we’ll need the missing person's Social Security number or identifying information such as date and place of birth, father's name, and the mother's full birth name.
Unless a missing person is receiving benefits under a program Social Security administers, we would not have a home address for them. Usually, we forward a letter in care of the employer who most recently reported earnings for the person.
Requests for letter forwarding should be sent to:
Social Security Administration
Letter Forwarding
P.O. Box 33022
Baltimore, MD 21290-3022
Learn more about this service at:
www.socialsecurity.gov/foia/html/ltrfwding.htm
Monday, July 27, 2009
August Blood Drives
Sullivan Trail Chapter Red Cross AUGUST, 2009 Blood Drives
OUT OF THE 107,000 PEOPLE IN CHEMUNG AND SCHUYLER COUNTY, ONLY 3,867 DONATE BLOOD. PLEASE HELP US RECRUIT AND RETAIN BLOOD DONORS.
For Chemung and Schuyler County
From July 1, 2009 through August 31, 2009, all presenting donors will receive a coupon for a free carton of Friendly’s Ice Cream, redeemable at participating Friendly’s restaurants. Coupons expire September 30, 2009. Tax additional where applicable.
To make an appointment to donate blood, all current eligible and new donors may:
Anyone 17 years or older, weighing at least 110 pounds and in general good health may be eligible to donate blood. In New York State, 16-year-olds may donate blood provided they bring an original signed New York State Informed Parental Consent form for a 16-Year-Old to Donate Whole Blood. Appointments encouraged, walk-ins welcome and Identification is required.
- August 10 from 1:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. at Tyrone Fire Department, 3600 State Route 226, Tyrone;
- August 21 from 10:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. at Schuyler Hospital, 220 Steuben St., Montour Falls;
- August 26 from 12:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. at Montour Moose Lodge, 2096 St. Rt.14, Montour Falls;
OUT OF THE 107,000 PEOPLE IN CHEMUNG AND SCHUYLER COUNTY, ONLY 3,867 DONATE BLOOD. PLEASE HELP US RECRUIT AND RETAIN BLOOD DONORS.
For Chemung and Schuyler County
From July 1, 2009 through August 31, 2009, all presenting donors will receive a coupon for a free carton of Friendly’s Ice Cream, redeemable at participating Friendly’s restaurants. Coupons expire September 30, 2009. Tax additional where applicable.
To make an appointment to donate blood, all current eligible and new donors may:
- Call the local Sullivan Trail Red Cross Chapter House at 734-3317 days
- Call 1-800-GIVE-LIFE (1-800-448-3543)
- Email betsy@redcrosselmira.org
- www.donatebloodnow.org nights and weekends
Anyone 17 years or older, weighing at least 110 pounds and in general good health may be eligible to donate blood. In New York State, 16-year-olds may donate blood provided they bring an original signed New York State Informed Parental Consent form for a 16-Year-Old to Donate Whole Blood. Appointments encouraged, walk-ins welcome and Identification is required.
Monday, July 20, 2009
Phone Number Change
The contract with Verizon for the RSVP phone number 315-694-1081 has expired and therefore been disconnected. RSVP will not be entering into a new contract until the 2010 budget and revenue figures are finalized. We regret any inconvenience this may cause our Yates County volunteers and stations. Thank you for your patience in this regard.
Thursday, July 2, 2009
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