The group, devoted to help those in need with food, clothing, small applanices, bedding and more, has to find a new home.

They’re thowing an “emergency fundraiser” this weekend to help make that happen.

Items from the store, hamburgers and hotdogs will be for sale, with proceeds going to utility bills, storage costs, and other things to help them transition into a new space.

Slightly Stoopid food drive

The band, Slightly Stoopid, is giving fans a creativity and generosity-driven way to get tickets to their show, “Blazed and Confused,” on Sunday, July 19 at the Idaho Center Amphitheater in Nampa.

On Saturday, the band will give a pair of tickets to the fan who donates the most food to the Idaho Foodbank.

Via the modern wonder of Twitter (http://twitter.com/slightlystoopid), the band will alert their fans to start the drop-off, at 9 a.m. Saturday morning. The bank will take food until noon.  

Doggiepawmoosa! More love for those dogs and cats

Proceeds from this friends-of-the-four-legged fest, 5-10 p.m., Saturday, July 18 at The Blue Moose Café, 79 E. Aigens Rd., in Eagle, will benefit a great group — SNIP, or Spay and Neuter Idaho Pets, Inc.

First, I’ll tell you about the cause. Seven months ago, the nonprofit group started raising money to create a high-volume, low-cost spay and neuter clinic and education center, with the end goal of ending the need for euthanasia of healthy, but unwanted animals.

Volunteers needed at the Idaho Museum of Mining and Geology

The Idaho Museum of Mining and Geology, 2455 Old Penitentiary Rd., is one of the town’s great secret treasures — especially for sciency types.

Tucked into a little building next to the Old Pen, it’s packed with rocks and minerals to fill your heart’s desire. The museum is in search of volunteers to fill a range of jobs, from museum attendant, to school tour leader, to hillside geology hike leader, even for volunteer gift shop manager.

Kudos to sportsmen and women: Rod and gun raffles bring in the donations

Sporting store raffles during the 4th of July holiday weekend gave the Boise Rescue Mission a leg up on donations.

Alpha Omega Services gun store, Archery Outfitters, and Howard’s Tackle Shoppe hosted food drives and raffles for Boise Rescue Mission.

Together, the shops collected over 11,000 lbs of canned food and hundreds of dollars in cash donations.

Winning raffle tickets were chosen on Independence day.

This rather creative fundraiser features live music, dinner and a taste of “squawky,” which is to say, inmate homebrew. The party is from 6:30-10 p.m., Friday, July 10 at the Old Pen.

The Rockin’ Hippies will provide the tunes, Highlands Hollow Brewhouse will cater, and each attendee — that’s you — will be assigned an historic inmate persona for the evening, and will dine on authentic prison dinnerware.

Themed tours based on historical ghosts, escapes and executions at the Old Pen will also be offered.

FarWest Landscape & Garden Center hosts this benefit for a very worthy cause, the Boise Valley Habitat for Humanity, 6-9 p.m., Thursday, July 9 at the FarWest Garden Center, 5728 W. State St.

Enjoy live music, wine tasting, hors d'oeuvres, a silent auction, door prizes, strolls through the lovely nursery, and more.

New Jersey track runner Melanie Adelman started a cool nonprofit effort that may inspire others to follow in her, uh, footsteps.

As a runner on her high school team, she recognized that replacing running shoes every six months, while important for competitive runners, was also kind of wasteful, sending perfectly useful shoes to the landfill.

Preservation Idaho gives 32nd annual Orchids and Onions

Awards were given Saturday in Nampa.  

Join AMERICORPS

Boise Parks & Recreation is looking for two half-time mentor/tutors to work with youth through the AMERICORPS national service program. The application deadline is July 25.  

The mentor/tutors will:
— Supervise youth during an after-school recreation program
— Organize daily tutoring activities for youth
— Design and implement community service projects
— Assist with recruiting and training volunteers