*^ >ews rom %JV ew JJolton fcft* C e| Ker... School of Veterinary Medicine UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine Is Looking For Volunteers To “Foal Sit” At Its Neonatal Intensive Care Unit During Foaling Season approximately 100 to 120 critical- treatments; milking and grooming ly ill newborn foals and 20 to 30 mares; helping with pregnant mares with high-risk pregnancies, mares as they are being monitored Foaling season runs from the be- for signs of impending delivery; ginning of February through the helping exercise mares and foals; end of June. Our volunteer foal and assisting nurses with various sitters are an important part of the tasks, including stocking, cleaning NICU team. The tasks volunteers Q f equipment and doing laundry, perform can be tiring, strenuous. Hours: Eght-hour shifts are and bruising. There is a lot of lift- available 24 hours per day, seven ing and kneeling. _ days per week. Hours are some job Description: A foal sitter s what flexible, but it is required responsibilities include working that all volunteers contribute at with critically ill newborn foals least one shift per week. (and occasionally other new- Qualification: Volunteers must boms); caring for recumbent foals be at least sixteen years of age and by helping them to lie stemally must have their own means of and to stand, and by keeping them transportation. Horse experience clean and dry with frequent is appreciated but not required, grooming and bedding changes; These tasks involve turning and keeping an assortment of oxygen lifting recumbent but often strug and intravenous fluid lines from glmg foals. Individuals with pro tangling and assisting nurses and blem backs or knees may have doctors by holding foals during difficulty performing these tasks. Oldham/Coastal Leaf KENNETT SQUARE (Chester Co.) Each year during the foal ing season New Bolton Center has volunteer opportunities in the neo natal Intensive Care Unit because the neonates require lots of cate. Do you have time to volunteer in the spring (an average of one shift a week or more)? Do you like horses and love foals? Are you curious about cutting edge veter inary medicine? If so, join our neonatal intensive care team as a volunteer foal sitter. Every foaling season New Bolotn Center’s CMi ndly Intensive Care Unil/Graham French Neonatal Sections pro vides around-the-clock care for ATTENTION TOBACCO FARMERS will be back to purchase your 609 type tobacco. We will be operating receiving stations at the same two locations as last year. Call us at either location on Tuesday December 9th for receiving dates and operating hours. Remember to strip your tobacco in 3 grades (tips, middles, and bottoms). All damaged, green or throwout leaves should be baled separately. Receiving Location #2 5 BEHIND ROSS’ FEED & GRAIN 4 27 N. 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Sates Promise ICWHOLLAN) Lancaster Farming, Saturday, December 6, 1997-Al5 Location: New Bolton Center is located just off Route 1 at the Route 82/Kennett Square exit, ap proximately 15 minutes south of West Chester, SO minutes south west of Philadelphia, and 25 min utes northwest of Wilmington. Parking at New Bolton Center is free. There is no public transporta tion in the Kennett Square area. How To Apply: Contact: Dr. Jon Palmer, VMD Associate Pro fessor of Medicine, New Bolton Farm • Home • Auto • Business • Health • Life Here To Fill All Your INSURANCE NEEDS Ej bm Roger Slusher - Carol - Cindy 248 B Maple Ave., Quarryville, PA 17566 (717) 786-1711 (800) 882-1415 iit automatic farm systems jSpfeM 608 E. Evergreen Road. Lebanon. PA 17042 Ijijl Phone: 717-274-5333 HAMMER MILLS /f^2\ for Grinding vSHXy CrSlns OiStUIB 8 Dfy FEEDBJNS Finer w -jREo i\ '"jfin r s Ro,ler mm Expert Installation WE CUSTOM MANUFACTURE. Painted, Galvanized and Stainless Steel Fabrication, Feed Bins, Feeders, Hoppers, Covers, Dump Pits, Augers, and Control Systems to Automate Your Operation. Center, 382 West Street Rd., Ken nett Square, PA 19348, email: jepalmer9vet.upenn.edu Fax: (610) 444-4724. There will be an organizational meeting for all selected volunteers in January of 1998. The meeting will cover details of the program and include a tour of the NICU. Necessary administrative paper work will be completed for those individuals who are selected to participate in the program. Insurance kim ''We're Here To Serve"
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