Day of Service 2010

Stake: Miami South Stake

Community Partners: Miani Dade Parks Dept.
Organization Served: Miami Dade Parks Dept. and residents of Naranja
Influencers: Ed Tracy and Rachel Beck
Total people involved: 8
Total volunteer hours: 40

Prune and Mulch existing trees and trash and litter pick up

Contact Person: Ed T.

Stake: Miami South Stake

Community Partners: Rebuilding Together Miami Dade
Organization Served: Rebuilding Together Miami Dade and residents who now have nice livable houses.
Influencers: Ed Tracy, Rachel Beck and Miami South Stake Presidency
Total people involved: 150
Total volunteer hours: 600

5 houses were completely refurbished inside and out, under the direction of a General Contractor.

Contact Person: Ed T.

Stake: Miami South Stake

Community Partners: Miami Dade Parks Dept.
Organization Served: Miami Dade Parks Dept., New School, Homestead Air Reserve Base
Influencers: Ed Tracy and Rachel Beck
Total people involved: 12
Total volunteer hours: 70

Set up border wood, shoveled in 16 yrds of Nutrient soil for garden, Planted 2 Avocado trees ant 2 Mango trees.  Seeds for vegetables.

Contact Person: Ed T.

Stake: Miami South

Community Partners: Naranja Lakes Community Redevelopment Agency
Organization Served: Naranja Lakes Community Redevelopment Agency
Influencers: Ed Tracy and Rachel Beck
Total people involved: 70
Total volunteer hours: 280

The Naranja Lakes CRA event resulted in filling a total of five (5), ten (10) yard dumpsters, 400 trash bags, placement of 200 bags of mulch and several gallons of paint. 

Contact Person: Ed T.

Stake: Miami South Stake

Community Partners: Miami Dade County GSA, Naranja Branch Library, and South Dade Skills Center
Organization Served: Miami Dade County GSA, Naranja Branch Library and South Dade Skills Center
Influencers: Ed Tracy and Rachel Beck
Total people involved: 15
Total volunteer hours: 60

Trash, litter and dumping clean up and trash and litter pick up around perimeter and lake.

Contact Person: Ed T.

Stake: Miami South Stake

Community Partners: Chapman Elementary School
Organization Served: Chapman Elementary School
Influencers: Ed Tracy and Rachel Beck
Total people involved: 7
Total volunteer hours: 35

Prune and mulch existing trees, weed and replant Butterfly Garden, trash and litter pick up around perimeter.

Contact Person: Ed T.

Stake: Miami South Stake

Community Partners: Seapines Homeowners Association, Naranja Lakes Community Redevelopment Agency,
Organization Served: Naranja Lakes Community Redevelopment Agency, Seapines Homeowners Association
Influencers: Ed Tracy, Rachel Beck, and volunteers from SeaPines Homeowners Association and Waterside residents
Total people involved: 45
Total volunteer hours: 250

SeaPines-Plant approximately 45 plants and 9 trees at entries and medians.  Paint east and west entry walls, prune existing plants and remove dead plants at entries, Repair fence along SW 280 Street, repaint curbs at entries, clean up and install landscaping at community
information boards at east and west entries and scrape and prep fence for paint.  Waterside- plant 4 trees and 74 plants at entrance.  Clean up trash and dumping.  Clean up common areas.  Repaint street markers and remove graffiti.

Contact Person: Ed T.

Stake: Miami South Stake

Community Partners: Brother Keily House
Organization Served: Brother Keily House
Influencers: Ed Tracy, Rachel Beck, Brother Keily House volunteers
Total people involved: 35
Total volunteer hours: 195

The volunteers did an amazing job of clearing overgrown brush from around the Brother Keily House, transitional homeless housing development. Volunteers- filled two dumpsters and another three dumpsters full are waiting for pick up!  They also did trash and litter pickup.

Contact Person: Ed T.

Stake: Miami South Stake

Community Partners: Miani Dade Parks Dept.
Organization Served: Naranja Lakes Community, the adults and children of Naranja, and Miami Dade Parks Dept.
Influencers: Ed Tracy, Rachel Beck, and the Miami Dade County Parks Department employees.
Total people involved: 50
Total volunteer hours: 250

Volunteers placed truckloads of new mulch, pressure cleaned basketball courts, playground equipment, and sidewalks around the rec. center and painted curbstops.  They also pruned, picked up many bags of trash and planted 7 trees.

Contact Person: Ed T.

Stake: Miami South

Community Partners: Naranja Lakes Community Redevelopment Agency, Naranja, FL CDC, Brother Keily House, Rebuilding Together Miami-Dade, Inc.
Organization Served: Listed by individual projects.
Influencers: Ed Tracy and Rachel Beck plus the Miami South Stake
Total people involved: 300
Total volunteer hours: 1500

Elder M. Anthony Burns, Area Seventy, Kicked off the meeting along with the Miami South Stake Presidency.  Sign up began.  All groups were issued maps, tee shirts, list of tools and projects and sub projects to be accomplished.

Contact Person: Ed T.

Name of Organization:

Naranja Lakes Community Redevelopment Agency

Location and Time:

Saturday, APRIL 24, 2010, beginning at 7:30 a.m. Check in for the event will be at:

Naranja Lakes CRA Community Center
27555 SW 140 Avenue
Naranja, FL

Activity/responsibility:

JOIN HUNDREDS OF VOLUNTEERS IN SOUTH MIAMI-DADE COUNTY CLEANING COUNTY PARKS AND NEIGHBORHOODS. 

Work to be done

Clean Up, minor repairs, tree plantings, fence repair and paint.  Entryway Landscaping, guardhouse- board up and paint.  Waterside- painting of street markers, graffiti cleanup along right of ways (street signs; utility boxes), Litter and dumping clean up along SW 280 St.

Community Garden. Trash hauling.

House Painting (5) –“ Rebuilding Together Miami-Dade, Inc”

Partners and other areas involved  

Princeton CDC
MD Parks department
South Dade Skills Center
Naranja Elementary
Naranja Branch Library
Rebuilding Together Miami-Dade, Inc.
Naranja Lakes Community Redevelopment Agency
Naranja, FL CDC

Tools or skills required:

All equipment needed for described projects.  Five pick-up trucks.  Ladders, all paint related materials, hammers, saws, etc.  Expertise in landscaping, gardening, painting, and proper boarding up windows and doors.  Expertise in painting over graffiti and repainting “monument” street signs.

Ages:

16 +, and family projects

Additional Notes:

Download flyer:

Links:

Contact Person: Ed Tracy

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