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Show Sat/Sun/Mon/Tues, March 25-28, 2017 How helping hands learn the ropes A-21 The Park Record Volunteer work in Park City often requires training By Frances Moody The Park Record R oxanne Kerr had trouble holding her tears back on her way home. She was returning from her weekly volunteer job at the National Ability Center, a nonprofit offering athletic programs to people of all abilities. Kerr, who helps with the center’s equestrian therapy program, cried out of happiness because she just watched a little girl light up after horseback riding for the first time. “The center was a new place for her,” Kerr said. “She was upset. She didn’t want to be away from her parents. I was thinking this isn’t going to work, but our instructors are amazing. They got her on the horse, and the minute we started walking, her whole personality changed. She started laughing and smiling and making the sign for more.” While Kerr goes to the National Ability Center each week to help people who face physical and mental challenges overcome limitations, Biruta Aigars Strausser helps out at Recycle Utah because she doesn’t want to see the world turn into a landfill. Lindsay Sugg, on the other hand, spends two hours in the car once, sometimes twice, a week to get to Nuzzle & Co.’s rescue ranch so she can fend for animals who don’t have the pleasure of speaking for themselves. There are many reasons why people take time from their busy schedules to volunteer at one or more of Park City’s 85-plus nonprofits. Volunteering, however, isn’t as simple as walking into an organization’s building and immediately getting to work. Many of the town’s nonprofits require prospective volunteers to attend orientations and undergo extensive training. Recycle Utah trains on an individual basis, while Nuzzles & Co. has an assortment of programs in which involvement requirements are different. While the Hope Alliance — a nonprofit that brings vision, den- dell fuller/ hope alliance volunteer A group of volunteers and staff from The Hope Alliance were in Guatemala offering eye care and saw 900 patients in four days. Volunteer Coordinator Alex Bostrom is pictured lower right. tal and medical care to people in Peru, Guatemala and other impoverished areas — wants its volunteers to attend orientations before traveling abroad, the National Ability Center asks helpers to shadow its programs’ instructors or assistants. Learning new abilities Lauren Willie, volunteer coordinator for the National Ability Center, said volunteers are the backbone of the center. She added it’s important people such as Kerr have the proper knowledge needed to work with those who participate in the nonprofit’s recreational activities. From learning the appropriate language to use to knowing how to work the center’s equipment, volunteers have a lot to pick up before they can officially get to work. “Within all our programs we have both instructors and assistants,” Willie said. “We can have volunteers for both, but there are two different trainings within all our programs.” Assistants in training learn from current assistants, while prospective instructors pick up their skills from other instructors. “After an initial training in which rules and goals are laid out, we schedule them to shadow a lesson,” Willie said. While assistants and instructors are needed at the center, administrative helpers and those willing to clean stalls or mop floors are always appreciated. Tanzi Propst/Park Record National Ability Center volunteer Roxanne Kerr walks Bjorn, a Norwegian Fjord, from the riding arena back to the pasture on Wednesday, Feb. 15. Kerr not only helps the center’s students, she also spends quite a bit of time cleaning up after its four-legged creatures. She was grooming horse Bjorn, a Norwegian Fjord with a calm temperament, when she talked to The Park Record . “We’ll bring in the horse and groom him,” Kerr said shortly after brushing Bjorn. “We’ll start with cleaning the hooves — We I’d never heard of an organization doing that. I thought, ‘let’s see if I like it.’” Lindsay Sugg Nuzzles & Co. Volunteer have two different brushes we use. Then we tack them up. Typically, if the student is able, the student will help us with all those steps as well.” The call of the wild Like Kerr, Sugg also works with animals. She, however, drives to Nuzzles & Co. rescue ranch in Peoa. Sugg wanted to volunteer at Nuzzles & Co. after she read a feature article in People magazine on the nonprofit’s trips to Native American reservations in Utah. “They had done a story on them going to the reservation and finding the dogs and bringing them back here to the ranch,” Sugg said as she leaned over to pet a cat named Grandpa Owen. “I’d never heard of an organization doing that. I thought, ‘let’s see if I like it.’” Sugg, who said working with animals is her calling, has done almost all of Nuzzles & Co.’s volunteer jobs. She has been to its adoption center at the Tanger Outlets in Kimball Junction to walk dogs. She has helped wash dishes and scoop cat litter. She even fostered a few rescue pets. “When I first started, I was helping with events,” Sugg said, adding she’s gone through training to be part of Nuzzles & Co.’s cat socialization and canine training programs. Cat socialization and canine training have specific orientations, and fostering a pet requires communication with one or more of the organization’s employees. 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