With the deadline fast approaching and the holiday season about to kick into high gear, there’s no better time for local businesses and organizations to apply for a City of Roseburg tourism grant.
Volunteers are needed to help open the Roseburg Warming Center tonight to provide a warm and dry overnight shelter for the community’s most vulnerable residents.
Several dozen small local businesses – including some owned by women and minorities – have been helped with COVID-19 relief funds through a $500,000 Emergency Small Business and Microenterprise Grant Program.
Roseburg Police are seeking law enforcement volunteers to join the “Shop with a Cop” event for children sponsored by local businesses and residents via Christmas for Kids of Douglas County and Walmart on Saturday, Dec. 3.
Roseburg Senior Center volunteers are asking for the public’s help with donations of tarps, tents and sleeping bags tonight – as well as able-bodied volunteers to help set up and tear down a holiday sale that hasn’t been held for three years.
An overnight warming shelter is expected to be open again tonight and tomorrow in Roseburg to provide a warm and dry place for some of our most vulnerable residents.