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Leesburg Florida Stake joins hand with community partners for a Day of Service April 24, 2010
It is hoped that each project will mobilize members, for a total of about 500 people donating approximately 2000 man hours to the community.
Highlights:
* The Eustis Ward from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is doing a food drive for Lake Cares and the Altoona Food Pantry.
* Leesburg Ward will also do a food drive to benefit St. Paul’s Food Bank, Christian Food Pantry in Lady Lake, the United Way of Lake & Sumter counties, and Second Harvest Food Bank.
* Minneola and Clermont wards along with the Sumterville Branch and the Rose Foundation are gathering supplies to send to Haiti.
* Lecanto Ward is doing landscape and improve property for CHIPS (Citrus Hearing Impaired Program Services).
* Apopka Ward is also doing a food drive. They continue to gather corporate partners in addition to the non-profits that are already committed.
Report of Completed Service Events
Haiti Relief Effort - Food and Clothing Drive - Clermont, Mineola, Sumterville
Stake: Leesburg, Florida Stake
Community Partners: Rose Foundation of Haiti
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Contact: Josette
AAA storage of Groveland - provided 2 storage units.
1999 Villa City RD.
Groveland, FL 34736
Organization Served: Rose Foundation of Haiti
Florida Blood Bank
Influencers: Dick Smith
Mayor of Groveland,
He signed a proclamation at Lake David Park in Groveland,
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Jennifer Hawkins
407-832-3343,
Doug Rotz
Ward Executive Secretary,
Building Scheduler, and Employment Specialist.
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Total people involved: Total Number of Volunteers 150
Total volunteer hours: Total Service Hours 350
Clermont / Minneola / Sumterville
– Three wards combined efforts to gather food, clothing, and toys for the Rose Foundation, to benefit the people of Haiti. For twelve weeks, members of the wards visited their neighbors and local businesses, gathering goods which were then stored at AAA Storage of Groveland in a donated storage unit. On April 24th Primary children and their families assembled emergency prep kits. The Big Red Bus was on hand for a blood drawing. Face painting was available and members of the community were invited to bring additional donated food and supplies. Mayor Richard Smith of Groveland proclaimed April 24th a Day of Service and spoke to those gathered. Families enjoyed picnics and other activities in Lake David Park, Groveland.
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Lake County Food Drive - Fighting Hunger One Can at a Time. Eustis Ward
Stake: Leesburg, Florida Stake
Danielis Lugo / Jose Lugo
Community Partners: Tavares Middle School-Academy
13032 Park Lane Cuttoff,
Tavares, FL 32778
Partner/donor organization
Mr. Trent Mott, Principal
Religious Partners:Bishop Michael Saunders
Eustis Ward Organization Served: Lake Cares and Altoona Food Bank
Influencers: Michael Saunders
Bishop Eustis Ward
5102 Holstein Road
Apopka, FL 32712
cell 407-953-9549
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Total people involved: 215 +/-
Total volunteer hours: 250 +/-
Description of what happened:
Our Ward had a DOS committee that contacted several community organizations who agreed to partner with us for a food drive. Presentations were made at Eustis and Tavares Chambers of Commerce. We also contacted schools and other civic and religious organizations in the area. The experience at Tavares Middle School exemplifies what we were trying to achieve. The food drive at Tavares Middle School was sponsored by the Academy, which is a school within the school. The Academy caters to students who have a tactile/kinesthetic learning style. The goal was to provide a way for the students to give back to their community in a unified effort. There are 41 students enrolled in the Academy. They made signs and publicized the food drive. The homeroom with the most food items collected won breakfast for the whole class. The students collected over 600 cans of food. The winning homeroom was teacher Josh Edmundson’s. Our combined efforts resulted in ap proximately four pickup truck loads of food items for the beneficiary organizations.
Timeline:
December contacted potential beneficiary organizations to assess needs
January – March contacted potential partners and made presentations to civic organizations, finalized publicity plan
March/April publicity, encouraged members of our Ward to start contacting neighbors to invite them to join in the project.
Started collecting food the first of April.
April 24, final collection and distribution of food to beneficiary organizations.
News Worthy:
This event is news worthy because it provided a boost to two local food pantries that are working to bless the lives of families in the community.
The beneficiary organizations were Lake Cares and Altoona Food Bank. The donor organizations were Tavares middle School and the Eustis Ward
The purpose of the event was to help fight hunger in our local community.
There were no verifiable sources of the news being reported.
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Leesburg Ward, - Local food drive a success!!
Stake: Leesburg Florida
Community Partners: not listed
Religious Partners: Organization Served: St. Pauls Food Bank
Altoona Food Pantry,
Lady Lake Church of God Food Pantry
Influencers: Bishop Dennis Wilson,
40821 Grays Airport Road,
Lady Lake FL, 32159
Total people involved: 11-20
Total volunteer hours: 124
Our food drive helps local hungry families, the St. Pauls Food Bank, Altoona Food Pantry, Lady Lake Church of God Food Pantry.
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Scheduled Events
Leesburg, FL Supports Food Drive Project
Name of Organization:
Location and Time:
Leesburg Ward
1850 Mt. Vernon Rd., Leesburg, FL 34748;
Saturday, April 24, 2010.
Time TBA.
Activity/responsibility:
We will gather food donations from friends and neighbors, bring them to the church building, then distribute to local food banks.
Tools or skills required:
A great activity for families (Family Home Evening, distribute flyers, the next week return to pick up donations.)
Ages:
Additional Notes:
Pick up flyers at the Leesburg Ward.
Download flyer:
Links: http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&source=hp&q=1850+Mt.+Vernon+Rd.,+Leesburg,+FL+34748&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=1850+Mt+Vernon+Rd,+Lees
Contact Person: Connie Duncan, 352-343-3986, duncanconnie@hotmail.com,
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Lecanto Ward is organizing a beautification project
Name of Organization:
Location and Time:
CHIPS (Citrus Hearing Impaired ), Lions Club and The City of Crystal River.
109 NE Crystal Street, Suite B, Crystal River, Florida 34428, Saturday, April 24, 2010; Time: TBA
Activity/responsibility:
The Lecanto Ward is organizing a beautification project including painting, landscaping irrigation, sodding, dirt fill, planting native Florida plants etc/ The Lecanto Ward volunteer army will be partnering with CHIPS representative volunteers, the Lion’s Club volunteers, the Key Center Plant Nursery, the City of Crystal River, and Citrus County Administrator Brad Thorpe to perform plant installation and beautification labor at the Lion’s Club/CHIPS location. We will assign a group of volunteers, including the youth, to plant flowers and Florida native plants per our landscape plan design on the left/west side of the CHIPS office train car. In between the train car we will be putting in a flower garden along with other Florida native plants and mulch. We will also be installing dirts to level out the middle of the west side of the CHIPS office ground to avoid runoff. We will assign a group of priesthood from the Elder’s Quorum and High Priest Group to perform pressure washing of the train car offices opposite where plants are being installed simultaneously, to begin on the East side of the CHIPS second parallel office car. We will have another group of volunteers sand the 2 wooden walkway entrances to CHIPS so they can be properly re-stained thereafter by said group. We hope to complete the work by 2 pm and then have a lunch that will be provided by donation, in coordination with CHIPS and a local ward member assignment.
Tools or skills required:
We will need 25-30 shovels, 8 wheel barrels, 2 pressure washers (as there are only 2 outdoor water hookups), and 10-15 gallons of staining for wood, electric sanders and various grains of manual sanding paper for taking off paint and prepping the wood for staining. We will need trash bags for any light materials clean up.
Ages:
12 +
Additional Notes:
http://www.ftri.org/index.cfm/go/public.view/page/34
Citrus Hearing Impaired Program Services
Ph 352-795-5000
Fax 352-795-5080
109 N.E. Crystal Street Suite B
Crystal River, Florida 34428
Download flyer:
Links: http://www.ftri.org/index.cfm/go/public.view/page/34
http://www.bocc.citrus.fl.us/administrator/thorpe_brad.htm
Contact Person: Eric Sanders, 352-382-3698; allperils@yahoo.com
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Eustis Ward runs a Food Drive to benefit a Homeless Shelter
Name of Organization:
Location and Time:
2615 Waycross Avenue, Eustis, Florida, 32726
Activity/responsibility:
We will be collecting canned goods, and non-perishable food for the local food banks. We have chosen two specific food banks (Lake Cares of Lake County & Altoona Food Bank) in our area that are in dire need of food to help feed the hungry.
Tools or skills required:
Ages:
12+
Additional Notes:
Download flyer:
Contact Person: Jose Lugo, 29325 County Road 561, Tavares, FL, 32778, Cell: 352-408-0186, Work: 352-343-6510 Fax: 352-343-3900
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Help for Haiti!
Name of Organization:
Location and Time:
Lake David in Groveland Park
441 South Main Avenue, Groveland, FL
It will go from 11 -3:00pm (as of right now).
Saturday, April 24, 2010
Help for Haiti will finalize on the 24th of April with a huge event held at Lake David in Groveland. We are involving the communities with the Groveland and Clermont Mayors. Proclamations will also be signed declaring the 24th a day of service to be recognized with the communities efforts. An 8 week effort will be taking place will both wards and branch for collection of goods, along with the finale on the 24th of April to celebrate the communities efforts!
Activity/responsibility:
First: Cory and Gail Carter, Brother and Sister Bori, will spearhead placing collection boxes in retail establishments. They are designing a special plastic box featuring a wood signage holder to frame the large Help Haiti poster you presented in our combined meeting on Sunday. They want this collection box to have a professional look. Publix Supermarket has requested to see the box and likely will approve it. Cory and Gail will also approach other retailers such as, TJ Max, Ross, Kohl’s, J.C. Penny and any other retailers that generate higher volume foot traffic who will allow for a collection box to be placed in their retail facility. The Carters, and their team, will monitor the boxes regularly to remove donations and make certain the receptacles remain clean, and that the posters keep a fresh look. This will be their main focus for the entire 8 weeks collections span.
Second: Sister Nickerson will be your liaison person to coordinate any PR information with Sister Parker that you would like. She and the Carters will work closely and will keep you informed of collections locations. Erica will focus on collections at schools, restaurants and other sources she has in mind. We have at least two other public school teachers in our ward that may help with this angle. Erica has excellent ideas and will be invaluable in this process.
Third: We will ask our Young Women to sew the duffel bag material into the proper sized bags as a service project. We’ll assign selected families in the ward to gather the materials needed to fill the bags. We believe that we can effectively prepare 30 duffel bags (all wards) maybe more.
Fourth: We really like the idea of the Family Home Evening Neighborhood Collection Program. We’re organizing a presentation for our ward auxiliaries and, if approved by Bishop Wilson/Jackson, we’ll implement this collection method through the High Priest Group, Elders Quorum, Relief Society and Young Men/Young Women organizations, and meet as one group the 21 of March to roll out the plan. In addition, we’ll ask the Primary to incorporate this into their Sharing Time by explaining the plight of the Haitian people and setting a date when the children can collectively bring an item to share
Fifth: Sister Hawkins and Sister Webber will be working with the local schools to have them raise canned food and clothing items for the Rose Foundation.
Sixth: Brother Rotz will work on getting a storage unit donated by a local business (Groveland) and work with Sister Dewberry on a proclamation to be signed by the mayor of Groveland and Clermont and help in the planning and organizing the event to be held at Lake David on the 24th of April.
Tools or skills required:
Ages:
Additional Notes:
We are also involving local businesses, and are working directly raising canned goods, clothing, shoes, and emergency kits for the Rose Foundation that is in Haiti. The Clermont, Minneola wards and the branch in Sumterville are partnering together to make this happen. A great family activity, for Family Home Evening.
Contact Doug Rotz (Clermont) 352-425-6323 primemortgage3@yahoo.com;
Vann Beverstock (Minneola) 407-782-7795, vab8266@yahoo.com;
Donna Dewberry (Clermont) donnaontheroad@dewberrycrafts.com
Download flyer:
Links:
http://picasaweb.google.com/EvansMarketing/DayOfService2010ClermontMinneolaSumtervile?feat=directlink#slideshow/5466371411636849
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