You can help us by donating your time, talents and abilities. Listed you will see upcoming events that you can choose from to help us raise funds or make a difference in the lives of people living with and affected by HIV/AIDS and those affected by addiction issues. Your efforts are not just a donation of your time, talents and abilities but an investment in the lives of people in your community. Please send us an email if you would like to volunteer for any of these events. If you have any fundraising ideas that you would like to pursue, please contact us and let us know!

EVENTS AT THE PALMS:

JOIN US - MONDAY, AUGUST 18TH, 2008@6:00P.M. CREATE AN AIDS QUILT FOR A LOVED ONE! We are honored to host an evening with MARY LOU (MOO) HAMLIN. MARY LOU represents the Names Project, New York Capital Region Chapter and will be providing a demonstration on how to create quilt panels. One of the Names Project's missions is to empower survivors to remember their lost loved ones as a result of the AIDS virus by creating a meaningful panel. All of these panels will be sewn together to create the AIDS Memorial Quilt. Feel free to visit their website at www.aidsquiltny.org. We will be working on our panel MONDAY EVENING, AUGUST 18TH, 2008@6:00P.M. and we invite you to JOIN US! Please let us know if you wish to attend or require further information by contacting The Palms Of The Oasis @518-344-7020 or E-mailing us at: palmsoftheoasis@nycap.rr.com. Our NEW OFFICE LOCATION is inside the State Presbyterian Church, Suite 22, on the corner of State St. and Catherine St., in Schenectady, New York. We will be dedicating our panel this year during AIDS WEEK in December. If you would like to dedicate your panel, we would be honored to have you JOIN US!

FLY TYING IN MID SEPTEMBER!!! We are proud to announce that TROUT UNLIMITED, CLEARWATER CHAPTER, will be sponsoring a 'BASIC FLY TYING CLASS', (8 Week Course), for our Youth! We are excited about this upcoming event for the Palms Youth! This class will be held in our NEW OFFICE LOCATION on Saturdays from 11:00A.M. to 1:00P.M. beginning in Mid-September! We will keep you posted on the start date and further information regarding this event!

AIDS WALK - SEPTEMBER 28TH, 2008 - We are currently updating our INFOMATION for this Event. THANK YOU for your patience. If you have any questions please call our office at: (518)-344-7020 or E-Mail us at: palmsoftheoasis@nycap.rr.com.

AVON PURCHASES - You can still make all your AVON Purchases through MARCI BEAUCOUX and a portion of the proceeds will be given to The Palms Of The Oasis! Marci and AVON have been working with the Palms for sometime now and we are so THANKFUL for their SUPPORT! If you place orders online, go to: www.youravon.com and look for the items you want, (if you don't have a brochure), and then E-mail Marci at: msavon@nycap.rr.com with your order and she will know that your purchase goes towards this Fund Raising effort. Once again our THANKS go out to MARCI and to AVON for all they are doing! The upcoming Campaign #22 for Halloween and Campaign #26 for Christmas are covered in this fund raising effort! (Some items may back order so please be patient.)