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Without our volunteers, Greenhill could not provide its current high level of service to the animals and people of our community!

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Volunteer Spotlight

February 2025

Dorren

Meet Dorren, our Volunteer of the Month for February! Dorren began volunteering with Greenhill in August 2023 and has already spent more than 200 hours helping the animals. Since he got started as a volunteer, Dorren has come out for a recurring shift every week in the surgical suite, assisting with cleaning and preparing supplies used in the surgeries performed each day for both shelter animals and trap-neuter-return (TNR) clients. He enjoys giving back to the community and helping the animals, and he says of his time volunteering with us, “I have learned how many services that are available at Greenhill, very amazing. I have found out how wonderful the people at Greenhill are.”
 
Although he was born and raised in Napa Valley, California, Dorren had a lot of family and friends in Oregon and moved to a 32 acre farm in Sweet Home in 1987. After his kids reached adulthood and moved out of the house, he sold the farm in 1999 and moved to the Eugene area, where he has since spent lots of time enjoying all that the city has to offer.
 
Dorren is now retired from a 48-year career in nursing that included time stationed in different areas of Camp Pendleton as a hospitalman in the Navy. In his words, “I joined the Navy to see the world and never got on a ship or out of California.” In addition to helping countless lives over the course of his nursing career, Dorren has also volunteered in the same field, which included everything from giving flu shots to the public to volunteering to care for Ebola patients.
 
In his spare time, Dorren has a wide array of interests that include traveling, gardening, fishing, snorkeling, jumping out of planes, and working on and driving classic cars. He has three pets of his own who keep him very entertained: a Cocker Spaniel named Teddy, a Chihuahua named Peanut, and a cat named Sally who is a Greenhill graduate!