From Our Editor, Nancy Allenby 

"LET NOVEMBER BE A TIME OF REFLECTION, GRATITUDE, AND SIMPLE JOY." As we enter a season of thanks and giving, we reflect on the goodness and support each of YOU bring to our community! This coming month, you will have the opportunity build window inserts, mentor school children, and learn more about our new KNP volunteer management system. We could not be more grateful for our volunteers, community partners and donors who continue to work together to build a better Kearsarge Neighborhood!

Warner Wood Event

THANKS TO 26 HARDWORKING VOLUNTEERS who stacked 5 cords of firewood on Saturday, October 19! KNP volunteers worked side-by-side with helpers from our community partner, the Warner Wood Bank, operated out of the transfer station in Warner. This is the second year KNP has partnered with the Warner Wood Bank to keep a stock of wood in Warner so that it can be more easily accessed by Warner residents in need of emergency firewood.

Window Dressers Community Build

LAST REMINDER: REGISTRATION IS OPEN here to sign up for a 4-hour stint as a window insert builder, greeter, food provider, or to supply transportation during the Window Dressers Community Build NOVEMBER 14-20 AT ST. ANDREWS CHURCH in New London. KNP will partner with Kearsarge Climate Action to provide 250 low-cost window inserts, keeping area homes warmer, saving heating costs and lowering CO2 emissions. All training is provided, and there are lots of ways to participate, so please join us for this terrific community effort!

Better Impact: New KNP Software

OUR ADVANCE TEAM HAS WORKED FOR MONTHS to upgrade our software to a volunteer management system named BETTER IMPACT. Better Impact will make it easier for you to see and sign up for volunteer opportunities, as well as to track your volunteer hours, all through the convenience of a web portal and a smart phone app. In addition, this new system enables KNP to track volunteers' personal interests and hobbies to facilitate more engagement - and more fun - within the KNP community. We're hoping to roll out the new system in November. Stay tuned!

Windsor County Mentors of Sullivan County

REMINDER: MENTORS FOR SCHOOL-AGE STUDENTS are very needed at Kearsarge Regional Elementary Schools and Andover Elementary. Windsor County Mentors, which has 50 years of experience administering mentoring programs, seeks adults to meet with Sullivan County students at school, one hour/week. You can join this extraordinary program ANY TIME DURING THE SCHOOL YEAR, and WCM will train you and match you with a child. For more information, email: info@wcmentors.org, or call 802-674-5101.

Holiday Cards and Cookies

ITS THE PERFECT TIME TO SPREAD SOME CHEER Every year we reach out to KNP neighbors, donors and community partners with holiday cards, and we deliver bags of holiday cookies all over the Kearsarge region to neighbors who are actively receiving KNP services. Be on the lookout for emailed requests from our cookie and card organizers to help sign and mail cards, to bake cookies, to package them into bags, or to help deliver to recipients. It takes a village...but we're a FESTIVE village and we know you'll have fun participating in this!

New KNP Hats and Shirts Available

KNP HATS AND T-SHIRTS ARE HERE! Teddy's Tees in Concord made us some awesome new t-shirts and embroidered baseball caps. If you missed the ordering window but would like some KNP gear, we'll have plenty of hats and a few extras of each size t-shirt. Please email us and we'll make sure you have an opportunity to proudly wear the KNP 'colors.'

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