There is a vital need for volunteers to assist in filling sandbags at all sand bag sites.
Sandbag Sites locations:• Missouri Valley Fairgrounds (3805 E. Bismarck Expressway) - open 24 hours a day. • Sandbag Central South Northern Plains Commerce Center (1901 Northern Plains Drive) - open 24 hours a day.
• Ash Coulee Water Tower, West of Washington Street on Ash Coulee Drive • Santa Fe Avenue, Cottonwood Complex west of South 12th Street
• Whispering Bay Subdivision, Shoreline Circle• 48th Avenue and Sibley Drive (this site was previously located at Sibley Drive and Hester Drive) •Ponderosa Park
• Hogue Road• “Sandbag Charlie”, 521 South 22nd Street (the old Bobcat building).
All volunteers must register before they can start working. Volunteers under age 18 must have a parental consent form signed. Forms are available online at www.bismarck.org and also at the sandbag sites.
To ease traffic and parking issues at the site, volunteers are asked NOT to drive there, but instead, to meet in the southeast corner of the Kirkwood Mall parking lot (JC Penney wing). CAT busses are transporting volunteers from the mall to the sandbag sites where volunteers are needed. Buses are running every 20-30 minutes until midnight. After that, volunteers should call Taxi 9000 at 223-9000 for transportation to sandbag sites.