If you are interested in giving your time and efforts to any of the following volunteer opportunities in the Central Savannah River Area, contact Alia Naffouj at communityrelations@conus.army.mil. Provide your name, rank, organization, email, work and home telephone numbers. If your class is interested in accepting the cause as a community relations project, provide the complete names and rank of each volunteer with a designated point of contact and contact info. For more information, call Alia Naffouj at (706) 791-1871.

A. Brian Merry Elementary school is starting a chess club and is looking for 10 to 15 volunteers to play and teach students chess. The club should begin in October 2009 and run until April 2010. Volunteers would be needed from 3:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. once a week.

National Veterans History Project: This Library of Congress project is aimed at collecting oral history interviews, memoirs, letters, diaries, photographs, and other original materials from veterans of World Wars I and II, and the Korean, Vietnam, and Persian Gulf Wars and the Afghanistan and Iraq conflicts (2001- present). Those U.S. citizen civilians who were actively involved in supporting war efforts (such as war industry workers, USO workers, flight instructors, medical volunteers, etc.) are also encouraged to contribute their personal narratives. Currently, the Augusta Historical Society and its volunteers are interviewing World War II veterans in the Central Savannah River Area as part of this project. If you are a history buff and are interested in first-hand accounts of this war, you are needed to help interview these veterans. You will be given a 30 to 40- minute briefing that will teach you the skills you need to do the job.