News Reports for Day of Service 2011

Below are news media reports from across the Southeastern United States about the Day of Service.

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The Houma Courier

Houma, LA

Members of a local church are doing their part to beautify the area and serve the community during a regional day of service. Members of Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, 3702 La. 311, Houma, are painting maintenance buildings near the practice football field on the Nicholls State University campus in Thibodaux as part of the church’s day of service Saturday.
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The Gretna Picayune

Gretna, LA

The Westbank First Branch of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Harvey held its third annual Helping Hands-Linking Arms Community Day of Service recently. The group collected food from neighborhoods throughout Harvey and donated it to the Gretna Food Bank.
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St. Tammany News

Covington, LA

More than 100 volunteers from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, the City of Covington, and Habitat for Humanity joined “Hand in Hand, Arm in Arm” for the second annual Civic Day of Service to clean up and work in the West 30s.
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The Mandeville Picayune and The Covington Picayune

Mandeville,LA, and Covington, LA

“Hand in Hand, Arm in Arm” West 30s Clean Up Day took place on April 30 in Covington. The day was declared by Mayor Candace Watkins as Covington’s Second Annual Day of civic service, “Hand in Hand, Arm in Arm.”
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Saints Help Tornado Victims (video)

Alabama

The video of tornado damage is from Pleasant Grove, a city in the boundaries of the Bessemer, AL stake. People worked there, in Concord, and other cities and counties encompassed by the stake. Watch the video.
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Mormon Times

St. Clair County, Alabama

ST. CLAIR COUNTY, Ala. — About 2,500 members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints volunteered for two days to help tornado ravaged victims from Tuscaloosa to Chattanooga last weekend. Volunteers donated more than 45,000 man-hours of work and filled more than 1,000 cleanup work orders.
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Miramar TV

Miramar, Florida

Video of a Day of Service cleanup project.
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Snellville Patch

Anniston, Alabama

Traveling to and from Anniston, Alabama over this past weekend were some 30 members of the Snellville congregation of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, also known for its nickname, the “Mormon Church.” They spent Saturday, May 7th cleaning up debris at the site of Pinegrove Congregational Holiness Baptist Church, which was leveled by the recent tornadoes, with only the brick steps and the baptismal font remaining intact.
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al.com

Huntsville, Alabama

HUNTSVILLE, Alabama -- The United Way of Madison County, which is organizing volunteers to help in the tornado clean up, is putting out a call for experienced chainsaw operators.
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City of Miramar TV

Miramar, Florida

The City of Miramar's 2nd Annual Joining Hands in a Day of Service 2011 with community churches and organizations.
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News Reports for Day of Service 2010

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The Sun-Sentinel

Ft. Lauderdale, Florida

Students at Sunset Lakes Elementary School in Miramar now have access to a real-life science lab, right outside their classroom doors. Adam Fabiano, 17, of Miramar, spearheaded the recent building of a butterfly garden at the school for his Eagle Scout project. A service project is one of the requirements for the Eagle Scout ranking, the Boy Scouts of America's highest achievement.
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The Miami Herald

Miami, Florida

If idle hands are the devil's workshop, then Shirley Branca Park was filled with angels during a recent beautification project worked by nearly 150 members of nine Miramar churches. ``Forever now we have more than a park, we have a special spiritual place to come because of your good work,'' said Miramar City Commissioner Troy Samuels while thanking the battalion of volunteers May 1 at the park on Wildcat Way near Miramar Parkway.
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The Miami Herald

Miami, Florida

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints held its second annual Day of Service on April 24, bringing together more than 2,000 volunteers to landscape and clean areas in Miami-Dade and Broward counties, including Comstock Elementary School in Allapattah. Teams of volunteers gave the school a colorful new look, planting marigolds, purple Petunias, yellow daisies and other flowers. ``We are all responsible for our community,'' said Comstock Principal Deborah Wilson. ``So to have entities like this come and volunteer their time and effort to the school is vital. We can't always set aside money to buy flowers. It's not at the top of the list. But this is so important. When the parents see it, they love it, and it's very welcoming for the students.''
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Examiner.com Orlando

Online publication

Giving Service, good for the body and soul

By Tracey Planinz, May 1, 1:12 PM

Orlando Alternative Medicine Examiner

Does volunteer work have benefits beyond just lending a helping hand in the community? That was the question posed by blogger Robert Rosenthal in a recent post from April 16, 2010. He referred to a survey conducted by one national health insurance company, United Healthcare, which found the majority of the those who volunteer on a regular basis report better health.

........However, patients need not wait for the doctor to write a prescription for volunteer work to enjoy the benefits of giving service. Just last weekend The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, working with other community groups, sponsored the "Day of Service" on Saturday, April 24th.........
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Bristol Tennesse

Volunteers spruce up YMCA center, Sugar Hollow Park
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Church News

Salt Lake City, Utah

Do more to follow in the Savior's footsteps. That's essentially the guidance Elder M. Anthony Burns received from the Quorum of the Twelve in 2009 after it evaluated the North America Southeast Area's first foray into an area-wide day of service.
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Meridian Magazine

on-line magazine

Over a thousand volunteers with helping hands took to their South Florida streets and neighborhoods to provide both relief and service to private and public sectors in their communities on Saturday, April 24, 2010. From making repairs to homes of the elderly and needy families in West Palm Beach, to assisting the homeless in Ft. Lauderdale, to beautifying neighborhoods and parks in Miami, volunteers both young and old were eager to help those in need during a time where economic hardships have fallen upon many families and local agencies.
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The Sun-Sentinel

Miramar, Florida

Haitian earthquake relief efforts were the topic of a recent community meeting in Miramar. The meeting was hosted at the Miramar Multi-Service Complex by City Commissioner Troy Samuels. The situation in Haiti had a personal touch for Samuels, who spent two years in the country as a missionary and worked as a Creole interpreter in college. "I was shocked by the news and concerned about the people in Haiti," Samuels said of the Jan. 12 earthquake. "I knew they lived under difficult circumstances and that this would make it worse."
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The Miami Herald

Miami

An upcoming community service project will beautify a Miramar park. The Joining Hands in a Day of Service event will take place from 8 a.m. to noon May 1 at Shirley Branca Park, 6900 Miramar Pkwy. The event, which is being organized in conjunction with area houses of worship, sprang out of a luncheon with local religious leaders, Vice Mayor Troy Samuels said.
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CNN ireport

South Florida

Hundreds of volunteers with helping hands took to their South Florida streets and neighborhoods to provide both relief and service to private and public sectors in their communities on Saturday, April 24, 2010. From assisting the homeless in Ft. Lauderdale to beautifying neighborhoods and parks in Miami, volunteers both young and old were eager to help those in need during a time where economic hardships have fallen upon many families and local agencies.
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