Day of Service 2010

Stake: Jonesboro

Community Partners: Real Life - Tyrone LifeSouth Blood - McDonough (gave us free advertising with 30 posters and 250 flyers) Community Welcome House - Newnan The Lions Lighthouse- DeCatur unable to attend but received donations Fayetteville Fire Dept- Fayetteville A Better Ways Ministry - Peachtree City The Running Doctor - Fayetteville Girl Scouts - Fayetteville / Riverdale Fire Department
Religious Partners:Religious partner(s) *A Better Way Ministries helping Community Welcome House by supplying a truck for their usage Whitewater Ward of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints Organization Served: Real Life of Tyrone receiving Food and Winter Clothing and furniture LifeSouth Blood receiving Blood Donations Community Welcome House receiving Bake Sale Monetary, Clothing, Misc Items, and Small Appliances The Lions Lighthouse receiving Eye Glasses, Sun Glasses, Hearing Aids, and Cell phones Fayetteville Fire Department giving shows to truck and giving free blood pressure checks / 2 hour block only The Running Doctor unable to attend personally however supplied free samples to hand out Girl Scouts receiving Stuffed Animals for Riverdale Fire Department Relief Society - Making quilts on site USO (military) The Primary made cards to send to military personnel ( Woman's battered shelter of Community Welcome House Young Woman- Bake Sale moneys going to woman's battered shelter of Community Welcome House (* Caree Campbell - YW Service Project)
Influencers: Melinda Talley Mickey Edwards Chris Borcik Robyn Donaldson Sheila Nelson-Ortiz
Total people involved: 115
Total volunteer hours: 460

Volunteers came in shifts with a number of them staying all day. We had great organizational support in all areas with good flow and developing stronger community awareness and help.
The Blood donations of 40 was double the expectations of LifeSouth had placed on a first time event and desired very heavily that we consider this every quarter!
Riverdale Fire Department to receive 160 stuff animals exceeded their expectations.
A Better Way Ministry were grateful to get donations…they were supporting Community Welcome House with transportations of donations but found some donations for their own organizations too. Plus the funds raised by the Young Women for the Community Welcome House of $760.
The Lion Lighthouse unable to attend will receive their donations sent to them.
The quilts from the Relief Society will go to the hospital and woman’s shelter once completed.
The military cards made by primary age children to be given to USO for distribution.

The event went very slow with great lapse times of community support but despite this we exceeded our own goals in all areas except food donations. However, the organization Real Life who was to receive food donations was given prior to this event $1000 food donation from the Bishops Storehouse and a number of months of support in clothing donations from the church in service projects. They left happy and desiring we continue to help them as we have in the past

Contact Person: Jonesboro Georgia Stake

Stake: Jonesboro

Community Partners: Moreland Chamber of Commerce
Religious Partners:none Organization Served: Town of Moreland, Coweta County, GA
Influencers: Aaron Cowdell Josh Evans, Mayor of Moreland
Total people involved: 46
Total volunteer hours: 138

We embarked on a fabulous journey to revitalize the downtown area of Moreland’s historical district.  This effort was in preparation of the annual downtown fair.  We met at 9 am on Saturday morning.  The Mayor was waiting for us.  He mentioned that they usually have 6 or 7 people show up to help clean up the area.  With our help we were able to provide 46 people to help.  We concentrated most of our efforts on the Veterans memorial.  We weeded and removed leafs.  We also removed and relayed a stone path that ran through the Memorial.  Then we helped pruning the shrubs and trees.  Finally, we weeded the playground area.  We filled 52 large garbage bags full of weeds and leafs.

Contact Person: Jonesboro Georgia Stake

Stake: Jonesboro

Community Partners: Hands on Henry
Religious Partners:none Organization Served: Henry County Arts Alliance
Influencers: Sister Wimber, Sister Jones
Total people involved: 100
Total volunteer hours: 350

Participated in 1 of 15 projects organized by the annual Henry County “Hands On Henry” on April 17th.
Assigned to work at the Henry County Arts Alliance property. Replaced porch flooring of historic home and cleaned up adjacent graveyard and trail.

Contact Person: Jonesboro Georgia Stake

Stake: Jonesboro

Community Partners: none
Religious Partners:none Organization Served: City of Thomaston
Influencers: Margie Adams
Total people involved: 26
Total volunteer hours: 52

We distributed garbage bags and plastic gloves donated by the city of Thomaston.  We divided into three groups and started down the streets adjacent to the police station.  We picked up trash and had a driver in a pickup truck pick up the full trash bags and take them back to the police station. This is a week long project to clean up the streets of Thomaston. We were also sanctioned by The Avenues Neighborhood Association.

Contact Person: Jonesboro Georgia Stake

Stake: Jonesboro

Community Partners: none
Religious Partners:none Organization Served: Fayette County Parks and Recreation, Brooks Little League, Brooks City
Influencers: Br. Hammond, Br. Worthington, Br. Moore, Anita Godve, Sister Pilcher
Total people involved: 22
Total volunteer hours: 200

Project 1. Brooks Park: Worked from 3:00pm til 9:00 pm laying 750 sq. ft. of flooring and putting up shelves at new concession stand.
Project 2. Cleaned vinyl fencing around cemetery, mowed grass, cleaned graves. at small cemetery in Brooks from 2:00pm til 6:00pm.
Project 3. McCurry Park in Fayetteville is painting/repairing two pavilions.  Started cleaning and prep the 2 pavilions for painting at McCurry Park, Fayetteville,  Ga. 2 hours of service On Tuesday and Saturday of this week we will finish painting the 2 pavilions at McCurry Park
Project 4: Cut trees, rebuilt fencing, electric wired fencing at a rehab center that uses horses in pediatric physical therapy.  9:30am til 2:00pm.

Contact Person: Jonesboro Georgia Stake

Stake: Jonesboro

Community Partners: Robert Burch Elementary School
Religious Partners:none Organization Served: Robert Burch Elementary School
Influencers: David Anderson(cordination) Angela Cain(donations), Xiomara Castro (communication w/school)
Total people involved: 27
Total volunteer hours: 100

Beautification of the front of the elementary school.  Cut hedges, cut grass, removed weeds from flower beds, added pinestraw and planted flowers.

Contact Person: Jonesboro Georgia Stake

Stake: Jonesboro

Community Partners: Family members of veterans, Newnan HS Air force JR ROTC, East Coweta HS USMC JR ROTC, Newnan ARNG Armory-Unit administrator
Religious Partners:Newnan American Legion, GA State Dept of Veterans Affairs, Bel Air Estates, Coweta Co. Bldg Dept, Newnan Times-Herald Organization Served: Local households of deployed, disabled, deceased & retired military veterans.
Influencers: Alex McRae of the Newnan Times-Herald Doug Stark- Retired Army Master Sergeant
Total people involved: 135
Total volunteer hours: 1376

This service included such things as cleaning gutters, washing windows, pressure washing drives & Houses, fixing closet doors, repairing toilets, repairing leaky faucets and landscaping/yard work, hauling off refuge, painting homes, repairing drives, rescreening porches, procuring food and prescription medication and even minor car maintenance as well as continued support by providing contacts with such organizations as the State Department of Veteran’s affairs in Newnan, Army Community Service, Family Readiness Group, JAG and Army Family Team Building etc.

Contact Person: Jonesboro Georgia Stake

Stake: Jonesboro

Community Partners: N/A
Religious Partners:Mt. Pleasant Baptist Church Organization Served: Mt. Pleasant Baptist Church
Influencers: Tom Young and Rhonda Thacker Rev. Fuller and Rev. Patrick
Total people involved: 39
Total volunteer hours: 108

We cleaned and beautified the cemetery behind the Mt. Pleasant Baptist Church at 600 East Mcintosh, Griffin, Georgia. We repaired broken headstones and removed debris and picked up trash. We also removed an old ladies outhouse that sat within the boundaries of the cemetery.

Contact Person: Jonesboro Georgia Stake

Stake: Jonesboro

Community Partners: Kiwanis Club, Pine Valley PTC Girl Scouts Troop 258, PTC Boy Scouts Troop 208
Organization Served: Keeping Peachtree City Beautiful
Influencers: David Baker and Kristy Hunter
Total people involved: 109
Total volunteer hours: 327

• Three Ponds: Painted gazebo (Kiwanis Club)

• Lake Peachtree Lagoo : Scouts cleaned using canoes (Boy Scouts Troop 208)

• McDuff Parkway Tot Lot: Clean fence, picked up litter.

• Mead Field: Clean fence, picked up litter

• Braelinn Complex : Clean about 300ft of fence

• Willow Bend Benches: Rebuilt park benches.

• Tyrone Road: Picked up litter

• Tot lot: Clean fence, picked up litter

• Georgian Club : Cleaned litter from retention pond

• Preserve Subdivision: Removed huge amount of yard debris dumped in green space. (Girl Scouts Troop 258)

Contact Person: Jonesboro Georgia Stake

Stake: Jonesboro

Community Partners: Joseph Sams School
Religious Partners:Palmetto Baptist Church Organization Served: Joseph Sams School
Influencers: Mrs. Waynette Peeks (Riley's mother) and her mother Patsy Bohannon
Total people involved: 157
Total volunteer hours: 1354

Volunteer names were organized on a list and given a specific assignment based on input and needs provided by The Race for Riley organizers (Patsy and Waynette). Although specific assignments were given to those who volunteered, all members were encouraged to come and participate in the event in any way possible.

The rainy weather did present us with a significant difficulty. The race was prepared to move forward despite the weather, however, many of the supporting activities were planned outside. Thus, some planned children’s activities and support facilities were unable to operate. Our ward volunteers still showed up at 7:00am ready to help. Patsy and Waynette did a wonderful job of adapting to the circumstances and the event was very successful despite the weather.

We organized and did our best under the circumstances. The following is a list of activities our volunteers helped with:

• An indoor children’s play station was staffed with a rotation of volunteers for supervision
• A water station was setup and staffed for the race
• Volunteers participated in a silent auction and live auction
• Clean up after the race
o Children’s play station
o The food vendors
o Other miscellaneous clean up jobs

Several ward members who ran in the race were awarded medals for their times.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IXSp8uXDsbE

Contact Person: Jonesboro Georgia Stake