At 6 a.m. on the final day, volunteers arrive to repack the games, checking for lost pieces or misplaced instructions.
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Turns out most of the folks on the course that day were volunteers and they all had drinking passes.
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Near Christmas, volunteers put on a dazzling display of lights and, on the day before Christmas Eve, The Ship Inn cooks up a traditional dish of stargazy pie in honour of local lad Tom Bawcock, who supposedly ended a village famine by braving storms to land a bounty of fish.
At stake in these battles is not simply what form of identification voters must remember to put in their pockets on election day, or what information voter-registration volunteers must remember to include on their forms, but possibly the presidency itself.
Democrats say they'll have 250, 000 volunteers working in battleground states on Election Day -- nearly three times the number working for Al Gore four years ago.
But every day, hundreds of ASF volunteers battle for the species on the ground, rebuilding and restoring river and fish-spawning habitat in the Atlantic Canada provinces and Maine.
Minnesota is a state that we feel confident about going to Election Day, and not only because we have volunteers and supporters on the ground, but because the President's record on issues like fighting for the middle class and helping the manufacturing sector recover resonates strongly in the state.
The campaign says it has recruited 50, 000 volunteers to help get out voters on Election Day in Wisconsin.
On Saturday, Feb. 2, 2013, the day before Super Bowl Sunday, volunteers will participate in a day of service in an effort to renovate and enhance five New Orleans Recreation Development Commission (NORDC) playgrounds.
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Inauguration activities kicked off on Saturday with the Obamas and Biden and his wife, Jill, leading volunteers across the country in National Day of Service Activities.
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