INVOLVEMENT OPPORTUNITIES

Southern California Foster Family and Adoption Agency needs foster and adoptive parents. Information: Jane Bock, (213) 365-2900.

* Cabrillo Marine Aquarium in San Pedro needs docents one morning a week to guide children on one-hour tours through the aquarium exhibit hall and give demonstrations on the beach. Training is being held next Monday through December. Applications are due today. Information: Randi Abrams, (310) 548-7562, Ext. 5029.

* Santa Monica Emeritus Band needs musicians, particularly woodwind players. Information: Wallace Umber, (310) 474-5271.

* Assistance League of Southern California needs docents and cafe volunteers for Design House 2001, a fund-raiser that runs from Oct. 2 to Nov. 4. Docent training takes place Sept. 26. Cafe volunteers will be training during their first shift. Information: (323) 469-1973, Ext. 417.

* Encino B’nai B’rith needs drivers to volunteer for about an hour one or more days a week to pick up day-old bagels, bread and cakes from markets and bakeries in the San Fernando Valley for consumption by poor children and their families, seniors, battered women and their children and the homeless. Information: Herman Berman, (818) 788-4230, or Steve Pollack, (818) 992-7422.

* Charmlee Wilderness Park in Malibu needs docents to guide elementary school ecology hikes in the Santa Monica Mountains and volunteer naturalists. The seven-session training begins with an orientation on Sept 20. Information: (310) 779-7023.

* Los Angeles Public Library needs docents to lead tours of the historic downtown Central Library. Training begins in October, one day a week for eight weeks. Information: (213) 228-7168.

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