Wanted: Camp hosts to serve one month or more at Hart Mountain National Antelope Refuge in south-central Oregon. Duties: welcoming campers and visitors; sharing information about the area; and light maintenance, repairs and cleanup at campgrounds and restrooms.
The volunteer opportunities available through the National Park Service are as different as the parks themselves, including both run-of-the-mill duties (picking up trash) and intriguing endeavors (babysitting turtle nests on a beach).
Dr. Morton M. Mower, a pioneering cardiologist and co-inventor of the automatic implantable cardioverter defibrillator, died of cancer Monday at Porter Adventist Hospital in Denver. The former Guilford resident was 89.
Hardy’s Friends, founded by Prospect Harbor resident Susan Burke, purchases food, kitty litter, flea collars and other necessities sought by pet owners in Gouldsboro and Winter Harbor.