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Sacramento, CA: Hands On Sacramento, Nancy Olson at NOlson@handsonsacto.org

Columbia SC: City Year Columbia, Brad Mahdi at bmahdi@cityyear.org

Baton Rouge, LA: City Year Louisiana, Carrie Miller at
cmiller@cityyear.org\n\nProvidence, RI:

City Year Rhode Island, John Crews at jcrews@cityyear.org

Philadelphia, PA: City Year Greater Philadelphia. Jana Curtis at jcurtis01@cityyear.org

United Way of Southeastern Pennsylvania, Heather Wertz at hwertz@uwsepa.org

New Orleans, LA: Interfaith Works, Nancy Murray at ndmurray@earthlink.net

Bridgeport, CT: Service for Peace, Diana Vaptzarova at ridgeport_ed@serviceforpeace.org

Louisville, KY: Service for Peace, Peter Hayes at Louisville@serviceforpeace.org

Birmingham, AL: Hands On Birmingham, Candi Williams at HandsOnBhm@aol.com

Harrisburg, PA: Corporation for National and Community Service, Mary Strasser at
cmiller@cityyear.org

Providence, RI: City Year Rhode Island, John Crews at jcrews@cityyear.org

Philadelphia, PA: City Year Greater Philadelphia. Jana Curtis at jcurtis01@cityyear.org

United Way of Southeastern Pennsylvania, Heather Wertz at hwertz@uwsepa.org

New Orleans, LA: Interfaith Works, Nancy Murray at ndmurray@earthlink.net

Bridgeport, CT: Service for Peace, Diana Vaptzarova at Bridgeport_ed@serviceforpeace.org

Louisville, KY: Service for Peace, Peter Hayes at Louisville@serviceforpeace.org

Birmingham, AL: Hands On Birmingham, Candi Williams at HandsOnBhm@aol.com

Harrisburg, PA: Corporation for National and Community Service, Mary Strasser at
strasser@cns.gov

summer pics because i'm cold

Ola at the beach at Ocracoke, NC in June

so this is Ola and the baby sister Boopsie (sometimes known as Allison) footballing in mom's front yard in may. exciting times...

and this is me at the museum of flight at kitty hawk, NC in june.

i only include these because i'm bored and don't want to do any actual work.

ta-da!

vermont

this weekend ola and i went up to vermont for fall color, which was lovely. he was post-call and of course very tired, and once we arrived at the b&b we both fell asleep (at 5 pm) and woke up the next morning. obviously it was MUCH-needed. we stayed at a b&b called the wiley inn, which i don't think we can recommend to others, unfortunately...the walls are a BIT thin, and on one side of us we had a guy who snores and on the other side we had an *enthusiastic* young couple. however, the manchester area is just beautiful, and i'd recommend it highly in general. it's so cute, and it's ridiculously easy to get caught up in the kitsch. so that was the exciting weekend :)