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Help Build the Continental Divide Trail in Colorado Next Year

December 21, 2011 at 2:31 PM | by | Comments (0)

Volunteers in Colorado are helping to build a completely new hiking trail, called the Continental Divide Trail (CDT), that stretches from Mexico to Canada and across Colorado, New Mexico, Wyoming, Montana and Idaho. Volunteers with the Continental Divide Trail Alliance (CDTA)—based in Golden, Colorado—dig out the trail, clear vegetation and move huge boulders and trees from the established route.

If forging a new trail sounds like a New Year's resolution you'd like to make, CDTA is already lining up volunteers for next season, which runs from April to October. Volunteer trips can last from one day to one week and include trail building, maintaining the existing trail, helping the crew chefs prepare meals, and participating in educational outreach programs. Trip leaders provide all gear, food and water, while volunteers bring their own tents, sleeping bags and day packs.

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How to Send a Holiday Card to Troops Overseas This Holiday Season

November 16, 2011 at 1:59 PM | by | Comments (0)

You might not be able to make it to an overseas military base to thank a soldier in person this holiday season, but there is still time to send the troops a holiday card through the Red Cross Holiday Mail For Heroes program.

The American Red Cross and Pitney Bowes are partnering for the fifth time to ensure all Americans have the chance to send "a touch of home" to U.S. military members who are far away from their homes during the holidays.

To send a holiday card to a member of the U.S. Armed Forces, all you need to do is write out a card using the salutation "Dear Service Member," include a note of gratitude, and send it to the address below by December 9, 2011:

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This Airplane Has a Movember Mustache

Where: Australia
November 15, 2011 at 1:35 PM | by | Comments (0)

In the only bit of positive news from Qantas this month, the airline has painted a mustache on one of its Boeing 737s. The mustache is to show Qantas' support for Movember and the Prostate Cancer Foundation of Australia. "Movember" has, over the last few years, become more and more popular around the world as a time for guys to grow a mustache to draw attention to prostate cancer. It's essentially the male version of women wearing pink during Breast Cancer Awareness month (which was October).

The Movember cause hits close to home for Qantas, as CEO Alan Joyce is a survivor of prostate cancer. His was discovered and treated, but he notes: "if it weren't for early detection, there is every chance I would have been dead within 10 years."

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Finally, a Star-Studded Cannes Film Fest Event You Can Attend (If You've Got the Cash)

Where: Cannes, France
May 10, 2011 at 2:02 PM | by | Comments (0)

AmfAR, the foundation for AIDS Research, is preparing for their Cinema Against AIDS Gala, which is held annually during the Cannes Film Festival.

This year the star-studded event will be held at at the Hotel Du Cap-Eden-Roc in Antibes, France, and will include a formal dinner and a live auction, with proceeds benefiting amfAR.

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Why You Should Take a Dip in Chicago's Freezing Lake Michigan This Weekend

Where: North Avenue Beach [map], Chicago, IL, United States
March 5, 2010 at 9:05 AM | by | Comments (0)

If someone offered you $100 to jump into Lake Michigan in frigid March, would you do it? Last year, more than 1,200 crazy people took the cash and went for a wintertime dip in Chicago's North Avenue Beach for the Polar Plunge, the main fund-raising event for Special Olympics Chicago.

Those who want to test the waters and help a good cause can put on their bathing suits and head to the lake on March 7 at 9 a.m. for the 10th annual Polar Plunge. The event works similar to a walkathon. Polar Plungers have to raise at least $100 in donations, but instead of walking a certain amount of miles, they have to brave the cold-as-hell water.

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Feted At Charity Ball

Where: Berlin, Germany
December 10, 2008 at 9:20 AM | by | Comments (2)

George Clooney's mustache popped up this weekend in Berlin at the Ein Herz fuer Kinder gala, where its owner received the Golden Heart award for his work with the Not On Our Watch charity. No shaving before a black-tie event -- really?

It seems like these mustaches are popping up everywhere these days, from Clooney himself on his New Mexico movie set to Brad Pitt sporting one at the premiere of his new movie "The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button." Let's face it, we may have a pandemic on our hands.

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[Photo: Evil Beet Gossip]

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Charity Travel: Order A Whitney Houston Of Your Very Own

March 7, 2008 at 9:30 AM | by | Comments (0)

Want to have Whitney Houston perform at your next birthday party or office function? Better look under the couch cushions; the singer was just paid nearly $2.8 million for an hour-long show to benefit a London charity.

Just think, for the price of Houston's May 8 appearance at the Caulfield Children's Legends Ball, you could buy "I Will Always Love You" over 2.8 million times from iTunes... although, really, once would do the trick.

We here at Jaunted would like to see a Whitney Houston comeback as much as the next bunch, but man, we really need to raise our appearance rates.

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Couple Turns International Wine Tour Into Charity

July 31, 2007 at 11:53 AM | by | Comments (0)

We're just jealous we didn't think of it first. A French couple is traveling to 80 wineries throughout the world, and has developed enough publicity buzz around their quest to convince vineyard owners to give them free bottles of wine. For charity, that is.

The pair leveraged its round-the-world trip for an altruistic purpose. Wineries they visit donate bottles, and when Nicolas and Geraldine return to their current home base in Spain, they will auction off the booty to raise money for Action Against Hunger.

They set out six months ago and have already collected 500 bottles, from vineyards in South Africa, Thailand, China, Australia, New Zealand, and Chile. Next on tap: Argentina, Uruguay, Bolivia, Peru and the United States before returning to Europe to tour the vineyards of Portugal, Spain, Italy, and France.

Highlights include visits to the "floating vineyards" of Thailand, where stretches of land rise between narrow canals. They also learned to appreciate the importance of red wine in Red China -- a symbol of prosperity.

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