It’s just a few weeks away! The Rose Festival is a big deal. It’s the Portland community’s biggest city wide celebration that’s been going on for over 100 years. Everyone around here knows about the Rose Festival. And when you say that you have Volunteered for the Rose Festival you are given true-blue Portlander brownie points galore. Heck, I’d put it on my resume.
There are quite a few volunteer opportunities for a variety of Rose Festival events. Most of them are just a few hou...
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I'm a student at Portland Community College and this is my honors project. I've done a lot of service work over the years and if there one thing that I learned, it is that doing volunteer work pays you with rewards that money just can't buy. I want others to know these rewards because it'll help make us better people and improve our world one action at a time.