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Sign-ups to volunteer for Child & Family Services' Adopt-a-Family 2025 have begun. Whether it’s greeting donors during their gift drop-off, helping sort through donations or packing up a family’s holiday gifts for delivery, they need your help!

Without their generous and kind-hearted volunteers, their Adopt-a-Family Program would not be able to serve as many individuals and families as they do! This program provides families served by Child & Family Services with the resources they need to experience the magic of the holiday season and jumpstart the new year. 

The Adopt-a-Family workshop is open December 8-19, Monday-Friday. Each day, two shifts are available to choose from: 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. or 1:30 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. 

They are happy to accept volunteer groups or individuals! If interested in participating in this program, please email adoptafamily@cfsbny.org with your preferred shift, date and group size.

We have a new Volunteer Opportunities page on the Chamber website! Learn about our nonprofit members and how you can give back by visiting the web page here.

It’s a pretty good chance that if you open up your medicine cabinet, you’ll find some old prescription bottles or leftover medication that “might come in handy someday.” In fact, those medications may have expired and may cause more harm than you realize.

It’s a good idea to occasionally take some time to clear out your medicine cabinet.

Independent Health’s Pharmacy team offers these easy tips to help you get started in cleaning your medicine cabinet and making sure your medications stay fresh:

1.       Check the dates. Discard any medications or item that are past the expiration dates. Many medications, vitamins and ointments lose their effectiveness after the expiration date.

2.       For prescriptions, follow the one-year cut-off rule. Get rid of any prescription medications that are more than one year old.

3.       The bathroom cabinet is not the best place to store medication. The temperature and humidity changes that take place while the shower is running can lower the strength of your medication. Keep medications in a cool dry place, away from children. Consider placing your medications in your bedroom dresser or a lock box in your closet.

Be careful about how you dispose of unused medicines. Your local pharmacy, hospital or police department may be able to assist in disposing of medication in a safe manner. Due to the potential harm to the environment, you should not flush most medications down the toilet. Before you do, check the FDA flush list to see if you can flush it down the toilet. If it’s not on the flush list, you should follow these instructions to discard the medicine in your trash at home.

Each community has drop-off locations for unused and expired medications; check this website for a location near you. In addition, twice a year – in April and October- there’s an event called National Prescription Drug Take Back Day. Sites are added at different times, so check back if you don’t see any local sites listed. The website also includes year-round drop-off locations for convenience.

Staffed by pharmacists, this event gives people the chance to properly dispose of their expired, unwanted or unused medications. A complete list of locations that will be serving as collection sites in Western New York is posted on the DEA’s website.