Cereal Festival

Volunteer Center of Battle Creek

 

This year’s festival theme is “Promoting a Healthy Community”.  It was selected to emphasize the importance of maintaining a healthy lifestyle and a healthy community.  Interactive activities, demonstrations and information centers focused on health and wellness will be dispersed throughout the festival. 

The World’s Longest Breakfast Table began in 1956 as part of Kellogg Company’s Golden Jubilee in downtown Battle Creek.  Since its inception, the Battle Creek Cereal Festival has become an annual Battle Creek tradition.  Kellogg Company, the Post Division of Kraft Foods and Ralston Foods - with the help of local and national sponsors - make it possible to serve tens of thousands of people each year. 

 

The Volunteer Center and the Arts & Industry Council would like to invite you to volunteer for the 2008 Cereal Festival. We encourage families, organizations, businesses, faith based organizations, and individuals of all ages to get involved. Cereal Festival volunteers are the pulse of the breakfast table without your help, the event wouldn’t be a success! Below your find a list of possible ways to contribute towards this year’s event, we ask volunteers to sign up for at least 2-3 hour time slots.

 

1. Clean-Up Teams                       8:00 a.m.– 12:00 p.m. Signup in 2hr time slots 

2. Cereal Servers                          8:30 a.m. - 10:30 a.m. Report at 7:00 a.m. * Recommend attending a Health Department Training.

3. Refreshment Servers             8:30 a.m. - 10:30 a.m. Report at 7:00 a.m. * Recommend attending a Health Department Training.

4. Milk and Juice Suppliers          8:30 a.m. - 10:30 a.m. Report at 7:00 a.m.

5. Set Up Team                             6:00 a.m. (Report)

6. Breakdown Crew                      10:00 a.m.-2:00 p.m.  Signup in 2hr time slots

 

 

To Sign Up to volunteer for the event you must create a volunteer profile with a username and password. When your create a volunteer profile you will be asked some general demographic information; the process takes 5-10 minutes. Please include your email address when registering this will allow us to communicate directly to you in regards to information about the Cereal Festival.  If you are volunteering as a group, family, congregation, business, etc, only the group leader (one person) needs to create a volunteer profile. The group leader acting on behalf of the group, family, congregation, etc can sign everyone up under one group name. Click here to create a volunteer profile, to read job descriptions and to register. For questions please call the Volunteer Center of Battle Creek 269-966-4189, we can walk you though the process of sign you up manually.

 

Volunteers will meet at the Cereal City Headquarters on Saturday, June 14th for check in; the headquarters is located at the old Cereal City Office Supply Store, located at 50 West Michigan Ave.

 

Optional Dates for Health Department Training: Volunteers who are handling food and refreshments will need to attend an hour long training class the week before. For your convenience we have scheduled three different volunteer training classes, you will only need to stay for an hour during the scheduled time. Please try to signup for a training date separately by contacting Deb Owns at the Chamber of Commerce. If you cannot make a training but still would like to volunteer, we can make special arrangements.