Cemetery Tour Needs Volunteers...
We need to begin securing volunteers for the tour. Please email us if you are interested in participating. All assignments are very important for a successful event and we hope that you will be happy with our plans.
Volunteer Positions
Ticket Sales-- helping with selling tickets. It is a fun, fast paced way to greet people who come to the tour. The job would involve either handling money or tickets and can be done while seated.
Tour Guide-- Being a tour guide. This job would require you to lead groups of people around the tour and quote interesting facts that would be scripted for you. It is a fun and interactive way to be a part of this year's cemetery tour. It requires at least two hours of walking.
Parking—Helping to direct traffic and parking.
Halloween Around the World--Helping run the children's activity booth. This job would require you to help children with the maps that explain cultural activities of Halloween around the World. There will also be an interactive table where children can decorate their own sugar skulls in the tradition of Mexico's Dia de los Muertos.
Runner-- To assist us in being a runner. This job entails delivering items from one cemetery to the other and filling in whenever needed.
Book Sales-- This job would involve selling the HSLB publications, handling cash and can be done while seated.
Set Up--Help with set up on Friday, October 27
Clean Up--Help with clean up on Saturday, October 28 from 2:30 to 4:00
Props--Identifiying props that will enhance the stories, borrowing items, picking items up and returning them after the tour.
Conducting research—July, August, September as needed
Refreshment team—picking up refreshments and delivering to volunteers--October 28
Creating displays—July, August, September as needed
Making sugar skulls, at your home—September
Contributions—securing contributions for water, refreshments, signage, etc.

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