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How are you making a difference in your community?

Are you gathering canned goods for local food pantries? Gathering used shoes, cell phones, eyeglasses to send to third-world countries? Need help getting your volunteer organization off the ground? We want to know about it.

Saturday, Oct. 28, is the annual Make A Difference Day, and The Augusta Chronicle wants to let readers know what's happening in our area to make life a little bit better for others.

If you are planning to work on a volunteer project Oct. 28, let us know the following: what's the organization, when will you meet, where will you meet and what do you need to make it work? Send your responses to: Make A Difference Day, P.O. Box 1928, Augusta, Ga 30903-1928 or e-mail erica.cline@augustachronicle.com.

For more information abou Make A Difference Day, log onto www.usaweekend.com.

The submission deadline is Monday, Oct. 23.

BIRTHDAYS

TODAY'S BIRTHDAYS: Actor Paul Hogan is 67. Singer Fred Cash of The Impressions is 66. Actor-comedian Chevy Chase is 63. Author R.L. Stine (Goosebumps books) is 63. Country singer Susan Raye is 62. TV personality Sarah Purcell is 58. Actress Sigourney Weaver is 57. Singer Robert "Kool" Bell of Kool and the Gang is 56. Singer-guitarist Ricky Lee Phelps (Brothers Phelps, Kentucky Headhunters) is 53. Actor Michael Dudikoff is 52. Comedian Darrell Hammond (Saturday Night Live) is 51. Actress Stephanie Zimbalist is 50. Singer Steve Perry of Cherry Poppin' Daddies is 43. Singer CeCe Winans is 42. Bassist C.J. Ramone of The Ramones is 41. Singer Teddy Riley is 40. Actress Emily Procter (CSI: Miami) is 38. Actor-screenwriter Matt Damon is 36. Singer Byron Reeder of Mista is 27. Actor Nick Cannon (The Nick Cannon Show, Drumline) is 26. Actor Angus T. Jones (Two and a Half Men) is 13.

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Contact Lifestyles Editor Erica C. Cline at: (706) 828-2946 or erica.cline@augustachronicle.com.