PCA HAS AN EXECUTIVE ASSISTANT: HOORAY!

June, 2000 -- The Palisades Citizens Association has just hired its first ever executive assistant. She is Anne Ourand, a Palisades resident.
A 1989 Xavier University magna cum laude graduate, she has a background of helping people--first in emergency family assistance in Montana, then enforcing court-ordered child support in Cleveland.
She held a prominent job with So Others Might Eat, Inc. (SOME) in DC five years ago, before going to London where she was the volunteer services coordinator for the Hackney Volunteer Bureau.
Anne and her husband's 10-month-old, John Leo, was born on July 4--many fine parades ahead of him. The PCA feels very fortunate to welcome Anne to the job.
Some of the executive assistant's duties will be: to schedule and attend general and board meetings, taking minutes; schedule Business meetings; work on the agenda; make arrangements for meetings, following up with letters; collect PCA mail; answer inquiries; work with committees on the July 4 parade and the Palisades Community Fund; work on membership; and post notices on the website and kiosk. So, future PCA presidents will find the job just as filling as ever, but not nearly so time-consuming.
--P. McG.

VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES

June, 2000 -- The Palisades website at www.palisadesdc.org is looking for web design and editorial help. Rachel Thompson at 364-1384 will assist in negotiating internship terms for anyone who may wish to shape an internship into an independent study.
The Palisades branch library needs volunteers on an on-going basis. Head librarian Lucy Thrasher says to please call her at 282-3139.
The Bethesda-Chevy Chase Rescue Squad is recruiting adults to become volunteer firefighters, paramedics and emergency medical technicians (EMT). EMT certification takes 131 hours. Additional orientation and drill are required. For more info, call 301-657-5557. (Even if you can't volunteer, remember that you can benefit from the rescue squad's expertise by calling them directly at 301-652-1000 in case of a medical emergency. They will come rapidly and they are good. And please consider contributing when they knock on your door, once a year.)