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Saturday, May 26
Hands On St. Nick - A Makeover
St. Nicholas Family Clinic
1901 Kentucky Ave.
8:00 am - 6:00 pm
Come help us give this 20 year old organization a NEW LOOK! Help us paint, clean, organize and create a welcoming environment for our patients and the community.

Specific needs include: taping & mudding supplies, paint & artwork groupings, rugs, blinds & plants/interior foliage, soft fluorescents, baby changing station (x2), office organizers, L-shape desk, chairs, coffee tables, flooring – wood laminate & vinyl or tile, and volunteers.

Having served almost 7,000 patients since opening in 1994, St. Nicholas Family Free Clinic has made a significant impact on the health of our community and region. We are looking forward to giving back to the clinic by recruiting local businesses and volunteers to help lay new floors, freshen the walls with new paint, and organize the space for people to be proud of. Featuring JLF Interior Designs.

Rock On in the Wash Post, MzDungey!

Linda Dungey worked her email fingers to the bone, campaigning for our new president, gathering up tons of volunteers to do the same and organizing numerous events and fundraisers this past year. So she must have felt quite the excitement to see Barack Obama sworn in yesterday as our 44th country leader. And she certainly should have been excited to see this: A big ol' story about her efforts in the Jan. 19 issue of the Washington Post! The story, written by Peter Slevin, highlights the canned food service project that MzLinda and her team carried out this past Monday at Carson Park, and also credits her with blazing the Obama trail in our area. Here's a little excerpt: For Dungey, the service projects were another stop on an unexpected journey that began when Obama emerged as a serious candidate. In early 2008, she started an Obama group in conservative Paducah, even though the Illinois Democrat had little shot at winning the primary or the general election here. "The next thing I knew, I was deeper and deeper involved," said Dungey, whose informal circle grew to include 150 regulars from miles around. "I was thinking that . . . even as a candidate, he may not win, but there's a moment in history where I have an opportunity to make a difference." New friends and old credit Dungey with stitching together an Obama organization in hostile territory. She saw it as an overdue payment on the political activism she missed in the 1960s, when she was a teenage mother "a little bit too focused on some other things." "So now," Dungey said, "I feel I've made my contribution to the civil rights movement." She surely did. Also quoted in the article were the Rev. Raynarldo Henderson of Washington Street Missionary Baptist Church and Cecil Barnette. Read the full, fabulous article here! Congratulations!


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