| Tom Coombs from Rolling Meadows, IL |
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| He's been driving from IL to Doo Dah for 20 years! |
InVolunteer & InSecurity
This fun position gives
you self-importance and authority to:
- blow your whistle at
obnoxious people (besides yourself)
- stop water situations (i.e., no water balloons
or supersoakers)
- keep the parade paced & moving
- assist with crowd control
(such as keeping street clear for parade to pass)
- Clean-up of trash on your corner.
- Leave trash bags on your corner when done (we'll pick them up later).
- After your corner looks tidy, feel free to follow behind the parade and come on
down to the Parade Block Party fun!!!!
You'll
get a wonderful little set up from Friends of Doo Dah: - a coveted collector’s item; a 2009 Doo Dah Parade T-Shirt (please
wear this during your shift, and the rest of your life)
- a whistle (this is where the
self-importance comes in)
- Doo Dah Cop Badge
- Trash bag and gloves
- Bottle of water
- Our undying gratitude
Parade Volunteers Report for duty and supplies - Saturday, July 4th, 2009
- Short North Tavern - 674 N. High Street, Phone: 221-2432
- Arrive between 11:00 a.m. –
12:30 p.m.
- Get your supplies & duty
details
- Head to your corner (you might luck out and get a golf cart ride to your corner)
Party Volunteers
Report for duty and supplies - Saturday, July 4th, 2009
- Buttles Avenue -
Taj Ma Doo Dah Tent near Paul Robbinett Candles
- Arrive between 15-20 minutes before your shift.
- Get your supplies & duty details
- Head to your designated area.
Clean-up/Recycling Volunteers Report for duty and supplies - Saturday, July 4th, 2009
- Buttles Avenue - Taj Ma Doo Dah Tent near Paul Robbinett
Candles
- Arrive between 15-20 minutes before your shift.
- Get your supplies & duty details
- Head to your designated area.
Parade Volunteer Doo-Ties
- Mind the attendees; try to keep parade participants in DisOrder, no passing zone.
- Keep the crowd from coming into the streets while parade saunters by.
- Line-up InVolunteers
- ask the marchers NOT to throw things from the parade please.
- Where there are Less-Than-Honorable
Judges, there will be chaos...do with it what you can, then go have a drink.
- NO WATER!
That means from the crowd or the parade entrants. This means no water balloons, super soakers or
garden hoses or any other clever little devices.
- Encourage the crowd to help pick up trash
around your area.
- There will be a trash truck following the parade. Just
toss your bag or leave it on the corner.
- If you come across a problem you can’t
or don’t want to handle, contact a police officer on the nearest corner. That's what they are there for.
Have
fun, laugh a lot, and come to the after parade block party on Buttles (between High & Park Street)
Be
brave! UnVolunteer for the 26th Annual Doo Dah Parade!
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