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this_ad += "      <P CLASS=\"postTitle\"><a href=\"http://people.bakersfield.com/home/ViewPost/123413\" >Optimal Hospice Needs Service Volunteers</a></P>";
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this_ad += "Do you have a unique talent you would like to share?&nbsp;Make 2010 the year you make a difference by helping others.&nbsp;Optimal Hospice Care needs your special talent/skill/license in Bakersfield and the surrounding areas to provide much needed services to our patients.&nbsp;At the present, we have an urgent need for hairstylists and manicurists to keep our patients looking and feeling their best.&nbsp;We are also recruiting certified pet therapists, music therapists, home and yard ca...</P>";
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this_ad += "      <P>By <a href=\"http://people.bakersfield.com/home/User/debbiida\" >debbiida</a></P>";
this_ad += "      <P>Looking for an opportunity to make a difference?&nbsp; Become a volunteer with Optimal Hospice and have the experience of a life time.&nbsp; Optimal Hospice Care will be hosting New Volunteer orientations on the first Wednesday of each month from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.&nbsp; We are searching for compassionate people from Bakersfield and the surrounding&nbsp;com munities who are willing to share&nbsp;a little time and friendship with the&nbsp;patients and families under our care.&nbsp;&nbsp; Please jo...</P>";
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this_ad += "      <P>A free community meal is served every Wednesday evening at Wesley United Methodist Church at the corner of Niles and Oswell. The meal service is now drawing in nearly 50 people from the surrounding neighborhood and continues to grow. It is becoming a bigger job than what the small cadre of volunteers from the church can handle themselves and so they are asking for help from people outside of the church to help with preparing meals, setting up, serving the meals, visiting with people, cleaning up...</P>";
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