Service Opportunities

NHS members are required to have at least 3 hours of service each quarter and 15 hours for the year.

To report service hours complete the Service Completion Form and submit the hard copy to Mrs. Ruland. Your hours will be posted on the Service Hours page. Members are advised to verify their hours.

There is currently a need for services in the following areas:

Harmony Hall: Service Project

Harmony Hall has recently changed their volunteer requirements. Volunteers must fill out an application, pass a background check, prove that they have had a recent TB vaccination, and then meet with the service director to choose what they wish to do at Harmony Hall. However if you are interested in providing residents with some organized entertainment (music, dance, drama sketch etc.), the previously mentioned requirements do not apply. This can also be a great way to involve other members of our school comunity. To qualify as chapter service, the NHS member would coordinate the entertainment. Please contact Katelyn Rye (katelynmrye@yahoo.com) with your ideas .

Operation Welcome Home

Hundreds of our Sailors, Airmen, Soldiers and Marines return from the War on Terror every week though the gates of the Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport.  Since March 2007, Operation Welcome Home volunteers have greeted over 100 flights and more than 25,000 Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen and Marines. 
Volunteers are always needed to give our troops the hero’s welcome that they deserve.  Operation Welcome Home (Maryland) averages one welcome home event per week, and YOU could be part of the excitement.  Individuals, corporations, youth groups, Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts, Cub Scouts, civic organizations, religious organizations, and government agencies have all participated in events since our founding in March 2007. Volunteers help decorate the lobby with patriotic signs and banners.  They also package “goodie bags” for the troops, many of whom are hungry, thirsty, and tired from their travels and will be waiting on a connecting flight.  When the troops arrive through the doors of the International Arrival terminal, we shower them with praise, cheering them on, hugging them, offering them a “goodie bag,” and thanking them for their service. Dates available for participation: (Please contact the person listed next to each date if you plan on attending any of these dates for further information)

http://www.operationwelcomehomemd.org/ for more information and for future dates.

Instructions
When you arrive at BWI Airport, come to the International Flights section on the Lower Level near Customs (this is the final gate on the lower level – just past Baggage Claims 13-14). 
 
Wear something patriotic and feel free to bring signs welcoming our troops home and thanking them for their service.  If you wish to bring something for the goodie bags, please consider bringing handmade “thank you” cards from children or pre-packaged/single-serving snacks (cookies, crackers, granola bars, and candy) and ½ liter bottled water for the goodie bags.  Please do not bring homemade cookies, fresh fruit, or other perishable food items. 
 
When volunteering at an OWH event, please go to the hourly parking garage and park on the third level of the garage.  You can park near the international terminal (parking section 3H) and use the crosswalk to cross over to the airport.  You will enter the airport near the USO Lounge.  Once inside the airport, go left towards the International Terminal, and we will meet in the lobby of that terminal.  The time we post is the time for volunteers to arrive.  For security reasons, we cannot disclose the time the troops will land.  We build in extra time to decorate the lobby and make goodie bags.  Volunteers are encouraged to help with these preparations before the soldiers arrive through Customs.  Please do not assemble goodie bags prior to coming to the airport.  We assemble them as a team before the soldiers arrive.
 
Bring your parking ticket with you so it can be validated.  Volunteers will be required to sign in on a sign up sheet provided by Customer Service.  The team captain for the event will let you know where the sign up sheet is.  Please sign in and turn in your parking ticket when you arrive.  Ticket collection will end at approximately 30 minutes after the volunteer report time.  Do not write on your parking ticket because you may not get the same ticket back.  Please be sure to get a validated ticket back prior to leaving the event.  You will need a validated ticket to get out of the garage.

Horizon Foundation

  Car Show – October 3, 9:00-11:00 at Glenwood Community Center next to the library.
Need 8-10 people to direct car traffic.
Contact Mr. Richard Tufts -  tuftsdaisy@verizon.net for more information

ARC of Howard County

The Association for Retarded Citizens (ARC) of Howard County needs volunteers on an ongoing basis. Last year we assisted with the Columbia Triathalon. If interested, contact Volunteer Coordinator Linda Congedo lcongedo@archoward.org.