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Be a weekend hero

By Katrina Crew
July 18, 2009 at 12:36 pm

How do you like to spend your weekends? For me, the ideal weekend involves indulging my natural laziness and love of sleeping 12 hours in a row.

This weekend, however, I’m on call for our web team. That means, if our volunteers respond to something big while our offices are closed, I get a call and write a story about it for our website.

While most people in the country were out celebrating the fact that last night was Friday night, residents in Morpeth were checking the weather forecast and worrying that rain would, again, devastate their homes.

Sounds like a situation for Red Cross volunteers! Leaving the warmth of their homes (or, possibly, their local pubs), they leapt into action last night. They visited families who were flooded last year, and they took to the streets to find out how they could help residents prepare for floods, just in case.

You can read more about how they helped on the Morpeth Herald’s website, or you can read the story I spent Saturday morning writing on our website.

If this sounds like the kind of way you want to spice up your weekend, why not become a Red Cross volunteer?

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