Day of Service 2010

Stake: Shreveport Louisiana

Community Partners: Keep Bossier Beautiful, Bossier City Housing Authority, Bossier City Parks & Recreation Department, Volunteers of America, Barksdale Annex Neighborhood Association, Home Depot, Salvation Army Boys & Girls Club.
Religious Partners: Organization Served: Keep Bossier Beautiful, Bossier City Housing Authority, Bossier Parks & Recreation Department, Volunteers of America, Barksdale Annex Neighborhood Association, Salvation Army Boys & Girls Club
Influencers: Dawna Barrera - Keep Bossier Beautiful Executive Director, Alice Jeter - Barksdale Annex Neighborhood Association, Andrew Burns - Housing Authority, Clay Buchannan - Director Bossier Parks & Recreation
Total people involved: 47
Total volunteer hours: 376

The Great American Cleanup is hosted each year by Keep Bossier Beautiful when they have a substantial volunteer group such as this year-Day of Service.
Three projects were done: Volunteers of America LightHouse Facility - classroom and exterior painted and fixed up; Salvation Army Boys and Girls Club facility exterior was painted; the home of a retired, disabled minister/senior citizen couple was painted.

Contact Person: avercher

Name of Organization:

Volunteers of America LightHouse, Bossier City Housing Authority, Barksdale Annex Neighborhood Association

Location and Time:

Kickoff Event is at 9:00 am at the LDS Church at 310 Wellington in Bossier City, 71111.  Teams will be organized and assignments made. Grab & go breakfast is provided.

Activity/responsibility:

Light landscaping, interior & exterior painting, & neighborhood cleanup.

Tools or skills required:

Landscaping –Bring gloves, shovels, and trowels –we’ll provide the plants.
Painting –Bring brushes, rollers and extensions, masking tape, ladders, step ladders- we’ll provide the paint.
Trash cleanup – Bring gloves -we’ll provide trash bags and pickers.

Ages:

Ages 12+ (project specific for safety reasons) pls contact us at www.dayofservice.org for additional info for younger children.

Additional Notes:

Please join us for a very brief Kickoff Grab & Go Breakfast from 8:45 -9:15. Project locations will be announced and teams organized.

We’ll finish off the day with a Cookout at 3:00 at 310 Wellington in Bossier City courtesy of Halliburton & the LDS Church – for all volunteers and their families.

Please bring your own sack lunch & WATER!

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Contact Person: Kaye Otis

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