Day of Service 2010

Stake: Apex North Carolina Stake

Community Partners: Town of Apex
Religious Partners:None Organization Served: Apex Peak Fest Organization
Influencers: Peak Fest Chairperson
Total people involved: 40
Total volunteer hours: 160

Participated in volunteer activities to help with a local communit celebrates the “Peak of Good Living” which was held on May 1, 2010

Contact Person: jpillar

Stake: Apex North Carolina Stake

Community Partners: None
Religious Partners:Episcopal Farms Workers Ministry Organization Served: Episcopal Farms Workers Ministry
Influencers: Yasmin Metivier and Silvia Cendejas
Total people involved: 24
Total volunteer hours: 50

Shirts and pants were collected to be donated to the Episcopal Farms Workers Ministry for protection for the migrant farmers while working in the fields.  Members of the Stake searched for clothing within their own homes and canvassed their neighborhoods for additional donations.  Hundreds of shirts and pants were collected.

Contact Person: jpillar

Stake: Apex North Carolina Stake

Community Partners: PTA at Baucom Elementary School
Organization Served: Baucom Elementary School
Influencers: Principal Tammy Jahad and PTA President Tracy Hanburger
Total people involved: 70
Total volunteer hours: 210

Cleaned up school grounds, mulch areas, pulled weeds and beautified the area.

Contact Person: jpillar

Stake: Apex North Carolina Stake

Community Partners: Olive Chapel Elementary School
Religious Partners:None Organization Served: Olive Chapel Elementary School
Influencers: Principal at Olive Chapel Elementary School
Total people involved: 40
Total volunteer hours: 100

School grounds were weeded, bushes trimmed back, and mulch spread.  The result was a beautification of the school grounds

Contact Person: jpillar

Stake: Apex North Carolina Stake

Community Partners: Migrant Farm Workers
Religious Partners:Episcopal Farms Workers Ministry Organization Served: Episcopal Farms Workers Ministry and Bishop's Storehouse
Influencers: Yasmin Metivier
Total people involved: 204
Total volunteer hours: 322

Wards within the stake were given individual assignments to donate materials to assemble hygiene kits for the migrant farm workers and Bishop’s Storehouse.  The materials were assemble on the Day of Service at the Stake Center and at the Garner Ward Building by the primary aged children.  A goal of 500 kits was surpassed with a total number of 650 kits being assembled.

Contact Person: jpillar

Stake: Apex North Carolina Stake

Community Partners: American Red Cross
Organization Served: American Red Cross
Influencers: Kirsten Kruhm Senior DRD Rep - American Red Cross
Total people involved: 135
Total volunteer hours: 425

Apex Stake Center was used as a blood collection center in the afternoon through evening of April 22, 2010.  The turnout was impressive with 116 people pre-registering for the event and more people showing up as walk ins.  A total of 87 pints of blood were collected.  Of people who showed up to donate 53 were first time donors which was fantastic showing.  The American Red Cross would like to thank the Church of Jesus Christ Latter Day Saints for the overwhelming turnout of willing blood donors on Thurs Apr 22nd

Contact Person: jpillar

Name of Organization:

Olive Chapel Elementary School

Location and Time:

Olive Chapel Elementary School
1751 Olive Chapel Road
Apex, NC
9:00 am start time

Activity/responsibility:

Clipping hedges and cleaning up school grounds

Tools or skills required:

hedge trimmers, gloves, garbage bags

Ages:

5+

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Name of Organization:

Baucom Elementary School

Location and Time:

9:00 am at school grounds
Baucom Elementary School
400 Hunter Street
Apex, NC

Activity/responsibility:

Project will include beautification of school grounds with an emphasis on spreading mulch and trimming bushes.  Looking to get 20-30 people to assist in this project

Tools or skills required:

Need to bring wheelbarrows, shovels, rakes,clipping shears

Ages:

All ages

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Name of Organization:

Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints - Apex Stake Center

Location and Time:

April 24, 2010 - 8:30 am at the Apex Stake Center on
590 Bryan Road
Apex, NC

Activity/responsibility:

Quilting kits are going to be assembled and distributed to the various wards throughout the Stake.  During the course of 2010-2011 leading into next year’s Day of Service quilts will be made for distribution to area hospitals and nursing homes.  This year will result in over 70 quilts made during the past year distributed to a local area hospital and nursing home.

Tools or skills required:

Passion for sewing

Ages:

8+

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Name of Organization:

Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints - Apex Stake Center

Location and Time:

Apex Stake Center
590 Bryan Road
Apex, NC
Collection of pants and long sleeve shirts to take place prior to the Day of Service - Sorting, assembly, and delivery to take place on Day of Service April 24, 2010 start at 8:30 am

Activity/responsibility:

The collection of long sleeve shirts and pants (no denim) is to be used by the Migrant Farmers to help keep pesticides off their bodies and provide protection from the sun.  This is a project that can be taken out to the neighborhoods weeks before the Day of Service and canvass neighborhoods to help in this effort.  Final clothing collected will be brought to the Stake Center for delivery and prepared for delivery to the Episcopal Migrant Farmers Ministry in Dunn, NC.

Tools or skills required:

None

Ages:

8+

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Name of Organization:

Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints - Apex Stake Center

Location and Time:

590 Bryan Drive, Apex NC - Opening ceremony at 8:30 - project to start after that in the cultural hall (aka the gym)

Activity/responsibility:

Stake members will be collecting the necessary items to make hygiene kits between now and the Day of Service - April 24, 2010.  A list of items needed for the kits has been given to the ward liaisons and a target amount has been assigned to each ward.  On the Day of Service, the items will be assemble into individual kits and boxed - this is a project that has a special emphasis for the primary age kids with parental supervision to participate on the Day of Service. The kits will be distributed to the Episcopal Migrant Farmers Ministry of North Carolina and donated to the Bishop’s Storehouse.  The goal for the stake is 500 kits.

Tools or skills required:

None

Ages:

Ages 3+

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Name of Organization:

Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints and American Red Cross

Location and Time:

Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints - Apex Stake Center
590 Bryan Drive
Apex, NC 27501
April 22, 2010 - 3-7:45pm

Activity/responsibility:

Blood donations will be collected by the American Red Cross at the Apex Stake Center to help those in need. This will occur on Thursday, April 22, 2010 before the Day of Service - April 24, 2010.

Tools or skills required:

Courage to give blood

Ages:

For ages 16+

Additional Notes:

The Apex Stake is partnering with the American Red Cross and local churches and community organizations for a blood drive on 4/22/2010 in conjunction with the Day of Service. Please sign-up to donate and encourage others to do the same in your presidencies (if applicable).

WHEN: Thursday, April 22, 2010

SCHEDULE: 3:00-7:45 pm (as long as you are in the door by 7:45 pm, you can donate).

HOW LONG WILL IT TAKE? It will take about an hour for someone to go through the entire process of donating.

SIGN-UP: Go to http://www.membersforlife.org/cbsr/schedule to sign-up and click on ‘search by sponsor code’ and enter 11991 then fill in the blanks in the online form.

ELIGIBILITY: Go to http://www.redcrossblood.org/donating-blood/eligibility-requirements/eligibility-criteria-alphabetical-listing

LOCATION: At the LDS Apex Stake Center Building at 590 Bryan Dr, Apex, NC 27502.

DRIVING DIRECTIONS:
1. Take US 1 South towards Apex.
2. Take NC 55 towards Apex (heading North).
3. Go under the railroad tracks and cross S. Salem Street.
4. Turn Left on Bryan Dr at the LDS temple.
5. Take an immediate Left into the Church parking lot.The building on the right is the Apex Stake Center.

FACEBOOK: Go to http://www.facebook.com/#!/event.php?eid=288819188694

For information contact: Jeff Lukowski at .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address).

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