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Honoring Our Shining Stars
Annual Volunteer Recognition Celebration
The menu is set and the invitations have been mailed. The only thing missing is you!
Please join us for this year's annual volunteer recognition celebration on Friday, November 4 from 6 to 10 p.m. at the Children's Museum of Indianapolis. Here are some of the highlights:
- 6 p.m. - Mix and mingle in the Welcome Center with fellow volunteers.
- 6:30 p.m. - Select a seat in the Sunburst Atrium. Then fill your plate with selections from our delicious food stations located on the first floor.
- 7:15 to 8:15 p.m. - The awards program honoring volunteers celebrating significant anniversaries or receiving special recognition.
- 8:15 to 10 p.m. - Enjoy selected exhibits all on the first and lower level. Including: "Beyond Spaceship Earth", the Dale Chihuly glass exhibit and All Aboard! Train exhibit.
Our menu includes:
- Salad station with salad, cole slaw, cucumber, succotash, and tomato salad.
- Mac and cheese and potato bar with toppings such as shrimp, bacon bits, chives, caramelized onions, brown gravy, cheese and brown sugar.
- Grilled vegetable skewers.
- Chicken station with buttermilk fried chicken, slow cooked barbecue chicken, corn bread and biscuits.
- A vegetarian entrée of chickpea cakes served with creamy mashed avocado, vegetable korma served with jasmine rice and curry sauce.
- Dessert station including mini banana pudding, peach cobbler and pecan pie.
- Water, iced tea and coffee served with your meal.
- Cash bar and we provide the soft drinks and bottled water.
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Welcome New Volunteers and Interns
Please join us in welcoming our newest group of volunteers and interns!
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| Krystyna's Korner
Time has really moved quickly since joining the House. We have been slowly adding new evening events for the guests with the hopes that this continues to expand. Polished Girlz was a big hit, as was Teal Canary who helped families decorate wooden pumpkins.
Currently, we are collecting an assortment of prizes for bingo night and have the player rules planned - now all we need are some excited bingo callers!
I want to send a great thank you to Gail Bennett, Tom Wallander, Lori Ball, Linda Satterfield, and Katy Brawley for joining in what I lovingly call the "Pantry Brigade"! These folks are helping to make sure that food donations are ready to come upstairs and making sure that we have a great assortment of ingredients for families who want to cook. They also stock simple heat-and-go foods for those quick breakfasts and lunches. We have also set up a schedule to stock snacks three to four times a week, which keeps our inventory moving but
also allows us to avoid running low or families feeling they need to keep extras. Since making these changes, I've witnessed families cooking and having meal times with the kiddos that are here in the House! Again, thank you! If you would like to join the brigade, please let me know at Krystyna Karr,
[email protected] or at 317-267-0605, ext. 210.
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Enjoy a Specialty Hot McCafe' Beverage and Help the House
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Pumpkin spice latte season is here! Now though November 24 you can grab your latte or any specialty hot McCafe' beverage and do some good too, because 20 cents of every cup goes to the RMHCCIN! This includes Peppermint Moca which is coming soon. |
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| Mission Moment "Thank you Ronald McDonald House for providing me with food, water and shelter while my little guy recovered at Riley Hospital's NICU! You guys are awesome! - Team Bentley." |
 Volgistics Thanks everyone for doing such a great job with recording your volunteer hours in Volgistics. Just a couple of reminders:
- Please remember to sign in AND out for each shift. When you do not sign out, Volunteer Resources needs to enter what time you left.
- If you forget to sign in or sign out, you can use the paper timesheet found at both Limestone and Riley to record your hours. Volunteer Resources will then enter these hours manually.
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Operations Update - Limestone
- Thank you to those who responded to the survey about potential Guest Services shift hours changes. While we have decided not to change GSV shift times, we will be changing the front office hours effective Monday, October 17. We will be closing the front office at 9 p.m. instead of 9:30 p.m. The GSVs will do the usual closing tasks during the last half hour of their shift.
- We now need to ask families to check-in no later than 8 p.m. This is a hard deadline. Any exceptions must be approved by the manager on duty.
- When someone drops off a wish list donation, please check for perishables that need to be refrigerated.
- Please record both the parking tag number and the vehicle description inside the guest registration card.
- All Marion County families and Methodist referrals require approval from a Social Worker before they can be added to the wait list.
- Please remember to hand out the welcome and back home again bags to families checking in and out.
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Look Who Was Caught Rolling Out The Red Carpet 
Rhonda Hainer recently caught Mike Rhinaman, Guest Services Volunteer (GSV) at the RMH at Riley, displaying cooperation, communication and teamwork.
Rhonda wrote: "Mike volunteered countless hours planning how to maximize the space in the pantry/storage areas. This required moving shelving, reorganizing and categorizing inventory at the RMH at Riley. The project involved teamwork and cooperation with volunteers assisting him and has created greater organization thereby saving time and providing efficient flow in meal planning for our families."
Thank you, Mike. You are appreciated!
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Congratulations Mike! Your name was drawn this month in our Red Carpet Award drawing and your Crew Carwash pass is in the mail.
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Remember if you catch a volunteer rolling out the red carpet and demonstrating excellent customer service, please submit a nomination using the form below listing the criteria. Printed copies of this form are also available in the front office at both Limestone and Riley. Each month, all nominations are eligible for a random drawing for a Crew Carwash pass.
Please click on the link below for the nomination form:
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| Updated Volunteer Schedule Please click on the link below for the updated volunteer schedules: October Guest Services Schedule
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Happy Birthday!
Please join us in celebrating the following RMHCCIN birthdays:
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Donna Schofield
Jeff Chamness
Madeline Clark
Jesamyn Sparks
Al Barnes
Peg Strodtbeck
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10/2
10/7
10/7
10/8
10/10
10/12
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Bob Skorjanc
Shelby Courtney
Cara Kowal
Tina Kazee
Hannah Smith
Richard Bender
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10/13
10/16
10/17
10/20
10/24
10/25
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Micki Siner
Ernie Harvey
Megan Middleton
Jane McClure
Bobbie Ozogar
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10/26 10/30 10/30
10/31 10/31 |
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Upcoming Events
Visit our website or watch for details in future editions of this newsletter for these events.
October 21
October 21
Volunteer Recognition
November 4
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New Volunteer Orientation
November - Date to be determined
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Substitute List
Please contact these volunteers if you need a substitute.
Limestone
- Lori Ball: (317) 371-9150 (Not available on Tues., Wed. or Thurs.)
- Jennifer Cannady: [email protected] (weekends only)
- Craig Ito: [email protected] (Weekdays 9 a.m. - 12 noon)
- Rega Kowalski: (317) 241-1566
- Mercedes Roots: (317) 356-9002 (afternoons)
- Paula Swift: (317) 797-1398 (3:30-9:30 p.m. and weekends)
- Marge Vogel: [email protected]
- Angie White: [email protected] or (574) 612-9622 (evenings and weekends)
- David Wilkerson (317) 294-4948 (weekdays 9 a.m. - 12 noon except for Tuesday)
Riley
- Donna Adams: [email protected] (Weekends)
- Laurie Eagan: [email protected] or (317) 691-3757 (weekdays 12 p.m. - 3 p.m.)
- Michael Rhinaman: (317) 258-4688 (Weekday evenings)
If you would like to add your name to this list, please contact Mary Friend at [email protected] or at (317) 267-0605, ext. 225.
Please remember to notify the manager on duty for last minute shift cancellations, and if you know your conflict in advance, notify Mary Friend. Also, let us know if you are able to find a substitute so we can update the schedule.
Be sure to notify Mary or the manager on duty
directly
rather than through your shift mates.
Thank you!
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