Event Information:

FamFest is a day-long family fun festival for all ages at the beautiful Wolf Pen Creek featuring live music, along with family–oriented games and activities, arts, crafts and food vendors.

Talent from the Brazos Valley will fill two stages from 11 a.m. until approximately 5:30 p.m.   Concurrently, there will be a midway and carnival games and family activities in the adjacent festival grounds.

The headliner of the evening will be country music award winner, Rodney Atkins.  He will be preceded by Greg Bates beginning around 6:30.

The event is hosted by Aggieland Pregnancy Outreach (APO), a non-profit which focuses on children born from unplanned pregnancies.  The day is designed to unite families, honor children and promote adoption.

Date:                May 12, 2012

Location:          Wolf Pen Creek Amphitheater

                        1015 Colgate Dr.

College Station, Texas  77840

Event Hours:    11:00 a.m. to 10:30 p.m. (subject to change)

Estimated Attendance:    7,500   but not guaranteed

Request for Volunteers

We are in need of volunteers to work in four-hour shifts throughout the day. Volunteers receive a t-shirt and one free concert ticket.

Job Descriptions:

Load In/Out – Help as needed hauling band and stage equipment.

Security – T-Shirt security to enforce rules, monitor a specified area of festival grounds, patrol perimeters, entries/check-points, provide parking lot security as assigned. Strict “hands off” monitoring.

Ticketing – Ticket/wrist-band sales, greeters, watch for violations and report to security, enforce guidelines (no coolers, etc.), provide information as needed.

Hospitality – Make sure complimentary snacks and beverages are available in specified areas for volunteer entertainers, staff and volunteers throughout the day.

Grounds Keeping – Make sure grounds are free of clutter/trash; empty receptacles when full. Wolf Pen Creek will provide replacement trash bags and disposal site

Set-up/Take-down – Assist Friday and/or Saturday with setting up and taking down markers, signs, banners, equipment, etc.

Anything – Means you are open to whatever needs to be done.

BRYAN, TX. – The Sexual Assault Resource Center will begin its 71^st Advocate Training Class on Monday, March 12th, 2012.  The training class is open to individuals interested in serving as advocates for survivors of sexual assault, their family members and loved ones.

Advocates staff the 24-hour crisis hotline as well as accompany sexual assault survivors to local hospitals, law enforcement agencies, and court proceedings.

Participants will complete a training course covering the legal and medical arenas of sexual assault, as well as crisis intervention techniques and more. Upon completion of the 40 hour course, advocates are certified through the Office of Attorney General.

Interested parties may contact Audrey Bohannon at (979) 731-1000 between 8am and 5pm, Monday through Friday. Prospective advocates must fill out an application and schedule an interview prior to entrance into the training program.  Applicants must be at least 18 years old and pass a criminal background check.

For more information, please contact the Sexual Assault Resource Center at (979) 731-1000, or visit the agency’s website at www.sarcbv.org.

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SARC Advocate Training Class