Senior Warming Center. The Salvation Army at 121 Cedar St., Manchester will be open Monday to Friday, 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Lunch is available. Activities include social time, games, cards, movies. For more information, call 627-7013.

Senior Warming Center. Elliot Senior Health Services at 138 Webster St., Manchester will be open Monday to Friday, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Seniors can participate in educational programs and activities. For more information, call 663-7000.

The Rotary Club of Conway has set up a "Special Fuel Fund" and has donated $5,000 to local residents in need of heating assistance.  This fund is designated for citizens who don’t qualify for LIHEAP, but are still in need of assistance with their heating bills.  To be eligible, you must live in one of the towns that the Rotary Club of Conway covers (Jackson, Bartlett, Conway, Eaton, Albany, Freedom, Madison, and Tamworth). Citizens are asked to apply through their town welfare office.

Seniors Count and Southern NH Services sponsor the Keep Warm Project to teach volunteers how to complete minor weatherization projects in the homes of vulnerable seniors in the greater Manchester area. There will be a two hour training for volunteers to learn minor weatherization tasks such as weather stripping windows and doors, putting plastic on windows and much more. This event will take places on Thursday October 23, 2008, from 6-8 pm at Easter Seals at 555 Auburn Street in Manchester. Refreshments served. Call Lyn Collins, Seniors Count Neighbors Care Volunteer Coordinator at 668-8601 or e-mail her at lcollins@snhs.org.

The Cool Monadnock program in the Southwestern part of the state is planning on conducting a grassroots "barnraising" effort for weatherizing homes this Fall/Winter where volunteers participate in helping a neighbor and then have their own home weatherized. For more information, contact Christa Koehler from Clean Air Cool Planet at 313-5182.

Members of the Wood for Warmth program have set up a wood bank at the Hopkinton-Webster transfer station, where people can drop off extra firewood or pick it up if they need it. Those interested in taking the wood need to get a voucher from a local social services agency. The group is looking for volunteers to donate, transport, chop and stack the wood, along with people to donate to a general fund for fuel assistance.  For more information, contact Mary Congoran at 568-2783.

The Town of Antrim has a community woodbank.  If you or someone you know needs firewood, please call The Grapevine Family & Community Resource Center at 588-2620 or stop in during office hours.

The Bureau of Homeless and Housing Services is having a Planning Forum for Local Welfare Directors and Homeless Service Providers - Planning for Winter:  Challenges and Opportunities for Serving New Hampshire's Citizens who are Homeless or at Risk of Becoming Homeless.  The Forum will be held from 1:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. on Monday, October 20, 2008, in the chapel of the Main building.  For more information, contact Maureen Ryan at the Bureau of Homeless and Housing Services, NH Department of Health and Human Services at 603-271-5043.