Day of Service 2010

Stake: Durham North Carolina Stake

Community Partners: No partners on this event
Organization Served: City and Citizens of Durham
Influencers: Donna Brustad, Elaine McCoy, and Christina Peredes
Total people involved: 3
Total volunteer hours: 5.5

A two hour workshop was sponsored by Donna Brustad at her apartment complex (Azalea Park Apartments) from 11:30 - 2:30 on April 24th.  She provided the food storage and the meeting place and Elaine McKoy and Christina Paredes provideed the samples and expert advice.  The topic was “How to make simple meals from food storage products at minimal cost”  This workshop was geared to those that needed to know about unfamiliar foods and how to cook them or recipes to use those foods.  25 members of the Durham community attended.

Contact Person: stevepeltz

Stake: Durham North Carolina Stake

Community Partners: No partners on this project
Organization Served: Inter-Faith Food Shuttle - Backpack Buddies
Influencers: Eden Hopkin
Total people involved: 2
Total volunteer hours: 20

Backpack buddies targets kids who access free & reduced-price lunches at school, but need other nutritional support over the weekends. Children from targeted neighborhoods & schools are identified, and are handed backpacks loaded with appetizing healthy foods to tide them over the weekend. Local corporations, civic groups & individuals help collect backpacks and the kid-friendly nonperishable food we will fill them with, and pack the bags for the children.
Empty backpacks were collected, and then re-filled with the food collected.

Contact Person: stevepeltz

Stake: Durham North Carolina Stake

Community Partners: Duke Medical School Student Government
Organization Served: Read Seed (an organization that works to place books in children's homes to promote literacy)
Influencers: Abby Parcell
Total people involved: 11
Total volunteer hours: 40

We delivered books to Read Seed that had been donated as part of a book drive in the weeks prior to the Day of Service. 
On the morning of April 24th, we helped Read Seed with a book sale that they were conducting. Our volunteers helped with final book sale set up, greeted customers, handled sales and donations, and recruited customers/announced the sale at the nearby Farmer’s Market. We also had two volunteers distributing a new free book to all the families that came through the sale. While we were slightly overstaffed, everyone’s help was appreciated and the volunteers enjoyed working with one another and with Read Seed staff and board members.

Contact Person: stevepeltz

Stake: Durham North Carolina Stake

Community Partners: No partners on this project
Organization Served: Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints
Influencers: Lindsay Dibb
Total people involved: 35
Total volunteer hours: 46

All the chairs in the Berini building were taken outside, washed off and cleaned, that then put back inside.
Children also made cards for the sick.

Contact Person: stevepeltz

Stake: Durham North Carolina Stake

Community Partners: Students of University of North Carolina and Students of Duke University
Organization Served: Habitat for Humanity
Influencers: Kimberly Isley
Total people involved: 16
Total volunteer hours: 58

We had four church members at the Re-Store for the AM shift, plus five Duke students. 
We cleaned and helped price small items (dishes, vases, etc.),
The Duke students that came were put to work lifting heavy objects.  Another teenager helped Delores in getting the objects we cleaned onto the floor and displayed.  We all worked well together and seemed to be greatly appreciated.  Rachel and Judy (the one over us) were great.

There were seven additional volunteers at the Habitat ReStore in the afternoon. They all worked four hours each.

Contact Person: stevepeltz

Stake: Durham North Carolina Stake

Community Partners: No partners on this project
Organization Served: Humanitarian Center
Influencers: Gabby Paredes and Shaleign Galbraith
Total people involved: 30
Total volunteer hours: 140

We had six quilts that needed to be completed.  We had already had the quilt tops so the activity was tying them and stitching around the edges with the batting in the middle. Volunteers helped to tie at intervals and then more advanced sewers with machines stitched the edges together.  It was fun to get together for a good cause! We worked from 9-3 on the day of service. That’s 6 hours. A few people had to leave at 1:00 PM, but in all, we had 30 people volunteer in all.

We are sending out six 90x90 quilts to the HAC.

Contact Person: stevepeltz

Stake: Durham North Carolina Stake

Community Partners: No partners on this project
Organization Served: Wright School (children's mental health treatment facility)
Influencers: Anthony Klopfer (Eagle Scout Candidate)
Total people involved: 60
Total volunteer hours: 328

We cleaned up the grounds including flower gardens, vegetable gardens, and basic clean up of a lot of leaves. We also created a lovely garden to improve the school environment for the students and their families. The days events included taking out the old bushes and planting new shrubs.  We installed a couple of benches for sitting.  In the middle of the benches, we placed a water fountain. Along the pathway from the entrance of the school, we replanted flowers and installed new flower bed areas.  Under the bushes, we added new mulch and additional flowers which lead directly to the memorial garden. 

Contact Person: stevepeltz

Stake: Durham North Carolina Stake

Community Partners: No partners on this project
Organization Served: Wright School (child mental health treatment facility)
Influencers: Logan Close (candidate for Eagle Scout)
Total people involved: 25
Total volunteer hours: 115

The stairs in the back of the school (on the hill to the east of the building) that provide access to the lower field were in serious disrepair. We replaced the existing dilapidated stairs with new timbers.  This involved replacing all of the support timbers and replacing the hand rail and adding a lower rail to stabilize the rail system and also to accommodate younger people.

We also replaced the basketball standard in the south parking lot with a new system that is very heavy duty and has height adjustment and a removable hoop.  It was placed in the same location as the one removed.

We also repaired a split log fence located in front of the school (West side bordering Roxboro road).  It looked like a careless driver had hit the fence and damaged the wooden rails and at least one of the brick columns.

Contact Person: stevepeltz

Stake: Durham North Carolina Stake

Community Partners: No partners on this project
Organization Served: Piedmont Wildlife Center
Influencers: Kim Price and Sarah Haggarty and Dave Schell and Allie Hansen
Total people involved: 26
Total volunteer hours: 160

Performed repairs and improvements to the Leigh Farm/Piedmont Wildlife Center, including:
• Installing catch fences for trash in the forest
• Fixed turtle pond
• Brush clearing
• Building a boardwalk over a wetland area
• Making log circles for seating areas
• Installing a stand to hold children’s backpacks
• Plus various smaller site repairs and maintenance tasks

http://www.peterpeets.com/lds/2010/video_Piedmont_wildlife_center_640x480_1024k.html

Contact Person: stevepeltz

Stake: Durham North Carolina Stake

Community Partners: No partners on this project
Organization Served: American Red Cross
Influencers: Sally Ehrisman
Total people involved: 92
Total volunteer hours: 178

We had a total of 89 blood donors.
We were able to exceed the Red Cross goal of 70 units with a total donation of 71 units.
Red Cross provided the canteen snacks, equipment, vans and of course 10 RN’s from 9 - 5.  I was especially pleased we exceeded the goal to cover the thousands of dollars that it must surely cost Red Cross to put on a drive.  I am so grateful for all of the people who made the sacrifice of time (and body) to donate.  There are people in our community who will live longer because of these donations.

Contact Person: stevepeltz

Stake: Durham North Carolina Stake

Community Partners: No partners on this project
Organization Served: City and Citizens of Durham and all visiters to Bennet Place
Influencers: Christine Cupido and Kimberly Isley
Total people involved: 125
Total volunteer hours: 375

Saints young and old from the Durham Stake had fun working on gardening and maintenance service projects at Bennett Place, site of the largest surrender of the Civil War, on Saturday, April 24th.  Our Leader from the Bennett Place Staff, Jeremiah Degennaro had a full list of projects to keep all 125 volunteers busy for our 3 hour work session.

We kicked off the morning at 9:00 AM in the Kitchen Garden area by reading the Day of Service Proclamation from Durham Mayor Bill Bell and a prayer offered by Bishop Meyer of Durham First Ward.  Jeremiah provided instructions for preparing the new garden beds, weeding the existing herb garden, husking and planting seeds.  All work was done the traditional way with rakes, shovels, hoes, picks, and even weeding done by hand.  Our volunteers transformed a grassy area and herb garden full of weeds into a well manicured, neat garden which was a beautiful site to behold at the end of our work day.

A second group walked across a large field to the wooded area of the property where they helped move rocks, pile brush, stack logs, and dig dirt in the woods to use as top soil for the Kitchen Garden.  The dirt was moved from the dig site across the field to the garden by wheelbarrow.  On the return the trip back, there were always a couple kids getting a ride in the wheelbarrow, which was quite a thrill for them!

A third group raked the picnic area and then followed Jeremiah into the woods to rake pine needles and leaves off the network of nature trails in the woods.  The youth also worked as a team to help line the trails with logs found on the forest floor.  The raking team ventured into the woods single file at first like a very long train, then split up into smaller work groups to cover the various trails.

At the end of the morning a sub-group from the Kitchen Garden team was recruited to help dig out the drainage ditch at the far end of the property past the picnic area.  A few folks also picked up gum-balls out of the grass in front of the Visitor Center.

Kimberly Isley’s team dropped off apples, oranges, Nature Valley bars and water, which made a big hit with the hungry, hard-working volunteers who gathered around the picnic tables at the end of our work day for much needed nourishment, hydration, and fellowship.

Eden Meyer was our official people-counter and she counted a total of 125 volunteers from the Durham Stake!  Everyone worked solid for 3 hours from 9 AM to Noon.  This means we contributed 375 person-hours to the beautification of Bennett Place on our Day of Service.

Everyone worked hard and had loads of fun at the same time.  A truly enjoyable experience was had by all who participated! Jeremiah was thrilled with how much our group accomplished and said he would like us to come back To Bennett Place next year if we do another Day of Service project in 2011!

Contact Person: stevepeltz

Stake: Durham North Carolina Stake

Community Partners: Urban Ministries of Durham
Organization Served: Urban Ministries of Durham
Influencers: Kimberly Isley
Total people involved: 46
Total volunteer hours: 220

We planted an herb garden for their soup kitchen. We also planted a flower garden so they would have flowers to cut for table decorations. We did overall site beautification that included a butterfly garden. About 10 children who are staying in their homeless shelter helped us spread top soil, mulch and then water at the end. In addition, we had 6 non-members at this site. 1 was the landscape designer, 1 was a friend of a member, 4 were Duke Medical Students.

Contact Person: stevepeltz

Stake: Durham North Carolina Stake

Community Partners: No partners on this project
Organization Served: City and Citizens of Durham
Influencers: • Kimberly Isley • Nathan Isley• • Ajax Woolley of Golden Rule Carpentry Home Remodeling • Matt Tuttle of First Impressions Lawn and Garden of Chapel Hill • Dan Jewell (Durham Central Park Board Member) for pre-planning and assistance
Total people involved: 63
Total volunteer hours: 235

A very abbreviated list of what was accomplished includes….
• Clearing brush behind Vega Metals
• Planting more perennials and shrubs in the Butterfly garden
• Mulching the Garden and the Azalea Beds
• Constructing new steps from the gardens to the pavilion.
• Installing pads for the new trash cans

Contact Person: stevepeltz

Name of Organization:

Read Seed

Location and Time:

Liberty Warehouse
611 Rigsbee Ave.
Durham, NC, 27701

8:30 AM - Noon

Activity/responsibility:

Read Seed is an organization that works to place books in children’s homes to promote literacy.  We will deliver books to Read Seed that have been donated as part of a book drive in the weeks prior to the Day of Service.  On the morning of April 24th,we will have the opportunity to help Read Seed with a book sale that they are conducting.

Number of volunteers needed: 10-15

Tools or skills required:

No previous skills or experience necessary

Ages:

Teens and adults

Additional Notes:

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Links:

Contact Person: This activity is closed

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Name of Organization:

LDS Church

Location and Time:

LDS Church Building
3902 Berini Drive
Durham, NC 27705

Time: 10:00 AM - 2:00 PM

Activity/responsibility:

We will have children’s service projects available at 3902 Berini Drive (LDS Church Building) during the Red Cross Blood Drive from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Parents can have their children work on a project while they donate blood. Please indicate the time you plan to participate in the sign up section below.

Tools or skills required:

None

Ages:

Children of all ages.

Additional Notes:

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Links:

Contact Person: Lindsay Dibb, Phone: 919-638-0642 Email: lindsayusu@yahoo.com

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Name of Organization:

Inter-Faith Food Shuttle - Backpack Buddies

Location and Time:

We are taking up a food collection for Backpack Buddies.
You can bring your donation on Saturday, April 24th between 9:00 AM - 1:00 PM to either of the following locations:
• to the Durham Central Park project site
• the Blood Drive and Children’s Service Projects at 3902 Berini Drive (LDS Church Building).

Activity/responsibility:

Backpack buddies targets kids who access free & reduced-price lunches at school, but need other nutritional support over the weekends. Children from targeted neighborhoods & schools are identified, and are handed backpacks loaded with appetizing healthy foods to tide them over the weekend. Local corporations, civic groups & individuals help collect backpacks and the kid-friendly nonperishable food we will fill them with, and pack the bags for the children. Empty backpacks are collected, and then re-filled for the next weekend’s use.
Donations can include: Canned vegetables, canned fruit, canned meat or meat stews, packaged noodles, 100% juice boxes, boxed shelf stable milk, healthy snacks, and breakfast items.

Please NO pop-tarts, cookies, spam, vienna sausage, soft top applesauce, fruit & jello, candy, juice pouches or sugary cereals.

Tools or skills required:

No tools or skills required.

Ages:

No age limitation.

Additional Notes:

Location - LDS Church, Berini Building:

or

Durham Central Park project site:

Download flyer:

Links: http://www.foodshuttle.org/cp.html

Contact Person: Eden Meyer, Phone: 614-1591 Email: yedenm@verizon.net

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Name of Organization:

Habitat for Humanity Re-Store

Location and Time:

Habitat for Humanity ReStore
5501 Durham-Chapel Hill Blvd. (next to Bob Evan’s and Outback Steakhouse)
Durham, NC

10 a.m. - 1:30 p.m.

Activity/responsibility:

Possible activities could include:
• Unpack and sort donations
• Answer the telephone—take messages and give directions
• Clean items and tidy the store

Tools or skills required:

No prior skills required.

Ages:

15+

Additional Notes:

Download flyer:

Links: http://www.durhamhabitat.org/volunteer/store.php

Contact Person: Kimberly Isley, Home: 919-956-2723 Cell: 919-608-0300, kimberlyisley@aol.com

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Name of Organization:

Habitat for Humanity

Location and Time:

This project will be located in Durham and will be dependent upon the number of people who sign up.
Habitat will place our group in a location the week before the Day of Service and those that sign up will be notified of that location.

1:30 - 4:30 PM

Activity/responsibility:

This could be heavy to light construction or landscaping type activities.

Tools or skills required:

If you have a specific skill that could be useful to Habitat, please indicate this in the comment section when you sign up. However, no specific skills are required. Wear sunscreen and bring a water bottle.

Bring gloves, a hammer and a shovel.

Ages:

15+

Additional Notes:

Download flyer:

Links: http://www.durhamhabitat.org/

Contact Person: Kimberly Isley, Home: 919-956-2723 Cell: 919-608-0300, kimberlyisley@aol.com

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Name of Organization:

Wright School

Location and Time:

Wright School
3132 N Roxboro St.
Durham, NC 27704

8:30 AM - 4:30 PM

Activity/responsibility:

Wright School is a unique child mental health treatment program. It provides best practice, cost-effective residential mental health treatment to North Carolina’s children, ages six to twelve, with serious emotional and behavioral disorders. It also supports each child’s family and community in building the capacity to meet children’s special needs in their home, school and local community.

This project is one that will make a difference in the lives of many youth, but especially will make a great impact on a family with ties to this school.  The project is creating a memorial garden for the Wright School in Durham, North Carolina.  One of the students lost a sister to cancer while attending this school.  Donations were given to this school from family and friends of the young girl who died.  The family wanted to have a place created in her honor for peace, solitude, and tranquility for any student or visitor who visits the school campus.

We will create this garden and to improve the surrounding environment for the students, school and for the family. The days events will include taking out the bushes and to plant new shrubs.  Lattice fences will be placed in front of the air conditioning units to hide from the memorial garden.  A lattice fence will be installed next to the patio to create an enclosed space.  These lattice fences will be painted white.  We will install two to three benches for sitting.  In the middle of the benches, we will place a water fountain. Along the pathway from the entrance of the school, we will replant flowers and install flower beds.  Under the bushes, we will add new mulch and additional flowers which will lead directly to the memorial garden.  Across the way from the memorial garden there is a playground and grassy area for the students to play.  We will build a fence and stain it which will separate this playground from a big ravine where sports ball always roll down when playing games.

10 - 15 volunteers needed.

Tools or skills required:

No previous skills required.
Bring gloves, a shovel, and a hammer.

Ages:

12+

Additional Notes:

Download flyer:

Links:

Contact Person: Anthony Klopfer (Eagle Scout Project)

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Name of Organization:

Donna Brustad Home

Location and Time:

2105 #d2 Bogarde Street
Durham, NC 27705

Potluck: 11:30 AM

Workshop on budget meals: 12:30 - 2:30 PM

Activity/responsibility:

A two hour workshop is being sponsored by Donna Brustad at her apartment complex (Azalea Park Apartments) from 11:30 - 2:30 on April 24th.  She will provide the food storage and the meeting place and Elaine McKoy and Christina Paredes will provide the samples and expert advice.  The topic will be “How to make simple meals from food storage products at minimal cost”  This workshop will be geared to those that need to know about sometimes unfamiliar foods or recipes to use those foods.  There will be a Spanish translator there and several to help.  If you are interested, please sign up and come with ideas or to learn about this important topic.

There will also be a potluck before the activity at 11:30 AM.

Tools or skills required:

No prior experience required.

Ages:

Adults and Teens

Additional Notes:

Download flyer:

Links:

Contact Person: Donna Brustad - Phone: 382-8400, Email: renellbabes@yahoo.com

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Name of Organization:

Humanitarian Center

Location and Time:

LDS Church
3902 Berini Drive
DURHAM, NC 27705

Time: 10:00 AM - 3:00 PM

Activity/responsibility:

The Humanitarian Center needs volunteers to tie large quilts at the Durham Bldg from 9 - 3 on April 24th.  Please sign up to help with this project.  We have six quilts that need to be completed.  We have already received the quilt tops from and will be tying them and stitching around the edges with the batting in the middle. Volunteers will be helping to tie at intervals and then more advanced sewers with machines will stitch the edges together.Gabby Paredes is spearheading the project with help from Sister Galbraith and Sister Green.  It should be fun to get together for a good cause! 

Tools or skills required:

No previous quilting experience required.

Ages:

Adults and Teens

Additional Notes:

Download flyer:

Links:

Contact Person: Gabby Paredes - 423-6279 or Shaleign Galbraith - 383-8848

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Name of Organization:

Wright School

Location and Time:

Wright School
3132 N Roxboro St.
Durham, NC 27704

8:30 AM - 4:30 PM

Activity/responsibility:

Wright School is a unique child mental health treatment program. It provides best practice, cost-effective residential mental health treatment to North Carolina’s children, ages six to twelve, with serious emotional and behavioral disorders. It also supports each child’s family and community in building the capacity to meet children’s special needs in their home, school and local community.

Repair split log fence in front of the school (West side bordering Roxboro road).  It looks like a careless driver has hit the fence and damaged the wooden rails and at least one of the brick columns. 

Project will require 4 - 5 volunteers.

Drinks and lunch will be provided.

Tools or skills required:

Basic handyman or carpenter skills are desired but not required.

Tools Needed:
• 2 post hole diggers
• a wheel barrow
• 2 shovels
• 2 hammers
• a circular saw.

Ages:

12+

Additional Notes:

Download flyer:

Links: http://www.wrightschool.org/

Contact Person: Logan Close

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Name of Organization:

Wright School

Location and Time:

Wright School
3132 N Roxboro St.
Durham, NC 27704

8:30 AM - 4:30 PM

Activity/responsibility:

Wright School is a unique child mental health treatment program. It provides best practice, cost-effective residential mental health treatment to North Carolina’s children, ages six to twelve, with serious emotional and behavioral disorders. It also supports each child’s family and community in building the capacity to meet children’s special needs in their home, school and local community.

The basketball standard in the south parking lot is in disrepair and is at a fixed height.  The scope of this project is to replace the standard with a new system that will be very heavy duty and will have height adjustment and a removable hoop.  It will go in the same place as the one removed. 

4 - 6 volunteers will be needed.

Drinks and lunch will be provided.

Tools or skills required:

Basic handyman skills are desired.

Tools Needed:
• Jack hammer (provided by scouts)
• 3 shovels (2 spades and one trench)
• a wheel barrow
• a cement trowel and edger
• 1 pick axe
The school will provide all materials including the basketball standard.

Ages:

12+

Additional Notes:

Download flyer:

Links: http://www.wrightschool.org/

Contact Person: Logan Close

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Name of Organization:

Wright School

Location and Time:

Wright School
3132 N Roxboro St.
Durham, NC 27704

8:30 AM - 4:30 PM

Activity/responsibility:

Wright School is a unique child mental health treatment program. It provides best practice, cost-effective residential mental health treatment to North Carolina’s children, ages six to twelve, with serious emotional and behavioral disorders. It also supports each child’s family and community in building the capacity to meet children’s special needs in their home, school and local community.

The stairs in the back of the school (on the hill to the east of the building) that provide access to the lower field are in serious disrepair.  At this point, the scope of this phase of the project is to replace the existing dilapidated stairs with new timbers.  It may involve replacement of all of the timbers and it seemed to lean toward replacing all the timbers and replacing the hand rail and adding a lower rail to stabilize the rail system and also to accommodate younger people.

Project will require 6 - 8 volunteers.

Drinks and lunch will be provided.

Tools or skills required:

All volunteers need at least basic carpenter skills.
Two volunteers need chain saw experience.

Tools required:
• 2 chain saws and related safety equipment
• 3 shovels
• 1 pick axe
• a wheel barrow
• 2 sledge hammers
• 3 large crow bars
• Work gloves
Materials will be supplied by the school.

Ages:

12+

Additional Notes:

Download flyer:

Links: http://www.wrightschool.org/

Contact Person: Logan Close

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Name of Organization:

Piedmont Wildlife Center

Location and Time:

362 Leigh Farm Rd, Durham
(near the intersection of I-40 and hwy 54, just east of Chapel Hill)

Activity/responsibility:

NOTE: THIS ACTIVITY HAS NOW REACHED ITS CAPACITY OF VOLUNTEERS AND IS NOW CLOSED TO FURTHER SIGN-UPS.
PLEASE PICK A DIFFERENT ACTIVITY

20-50 volunteers were needed.
We will be performing repairs and improvements to the Leigh Farm/Piedmont Wildlife Center, including:
• Installing catch fences for trash in the forest
• Building a boardwalk over a wetland area
• Making log circles for seating areas
• Installing a stand to hold children’s backpacks
• Plus various smaller site repairs and maintenance tasks

Tools or skills required:

Some basic woodworking skills including use of a hammer and saw are nice to have but not required.
Bring gloves and some personal water for drinking

Ages:

6+  (All ages welcome, although children must be supervised by parents, not all projects appropriate for small children.)

Additional Notes:

Download flyer:

Links: http://www.piedmontwildlifecenter.org

Contact Person: Kim Price, kprice@duke.edu, 919-933-7186

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Name of Organization:

American Red Cross

Location and Time:

Durham Ward Building, 3902 Berini Drive, Durham, NC 27705
10:00 AM - 3:00 PM

Activity/responsibility:

Donation of blood. Why give blood? Every two seconds, someone in the United States needs blood. But only 5% of the eligible US population donates blood in a given year. Healthy donors are the only source for blood. For nearly 5 million people who receive blood transfusions every year, your donation can make the difference between life and death.
April 24th is your chance to donate. Your chance to make a difference. Your chance to save a life.

We also encourage you to participate in another service project in the morning and then schedule a time with Sally Ehrisman in the afternoon to donate blood. Make it a real day of service!

Tools or skills required:

To ensure the safety of blood donation for both donors and recipients, all volunteer blood donors must be evaluated to determine their eligibility to give blood.

Please see website for criteria:  http://www.redcrossblood.org/donating-blood/eligibility-requirements/eligibility-criteria-topic

Ages:

You must be at least 17 years old to donate to the general blood supply,

Additional Notes:

Download flyer: Red_Cross_Appts.pdf

Links: http://www.redcrossblood.org/donating-blood/eligibility-requirements/eligibility-criteria-topic

Contact Person: Please contact Sally Ehrisman to schedule your appointment time. Phone: 919-544-5188 or Email: sehrisman@yahoo.com

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Name of Organization:

Bennett Place Memorial

Location and Time:

4409 Bennett Memorial Rd., Durham, NC,  27705
9:00 a.m. to Noon

Activity/responsibility:

Light yard work, spring clean-up, weeding, trimming.

Tools or skills required:

No skills necessary.
Bring gloves for yardwork and any gardening tools if available.
Wear sunscreen and bring a water bottle.

Ages:

All ages. All members of a family can participate. Families are encouraged to work together and include their young children.

Additional Notes:

Download flyer:

Links: http://www.nchistoricsites.org/bennett/

Contact Person: Kimberly Isley, Home: 919-956-2723 Cell: 919-608-0300

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Name of Organization:

Urban Ministries of Durham

Location and Time:

Urban Ministries - Downtown Durham at 410 Liberty Street,  Durham, NC 27702.

Located kitty-corner from the Durham Public Library and across the street from WTVD 11.

9:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.

Activity/responsibility:

Light yard work, spring clean-up, weeding, planting in 5 planter boxes, planting an herb garden. Interior painting. Volunteers working at this site are invited to eat lunch with those in the community who are receiving assistance from Urban Ministries.

Tools or skills required:

No skills necessary for the yard work. Painting experience is helpful. Bring gloves for yardwork and any gardening tools if available. Wear sunscreen and bring a water bottle.

Ages:

8+

Additional Notes:

Download flyer:

Links: http://www.umdurham.org/

Contact Person: Kimberly Isley, Home: 919-956-2723 Cell: 919-608-0300

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Name of Organization:

Durham Central Park (Downtown Durham)

Location and Time:

Durham Central Park, 534 Foster Street, Downtown Durham, NC 27701
9:00 AM to 4:00 PM

Activity/responsibility:

This activity will involve heavy and light landscaping. There will be a variety of work for different ages, skill levels and interests. Durham Central Park will provide materials and some light gardening tools.  But volunteers should bring their own gardening tools and power tools. Electricity is available on-site. Projects for that day:
1. Install timber stair in the wooded hillside area near the Grace Garden. (won’t be completed in one day)
2. Create pads for picnic tables and garbage cans. 
3. Some earthwork, formwork, gravel, reinforcing and concrete. 
4. Light brush clearing
5. Plantings. Probably in the butterfly garden. 
6. Make backless benches from landscape timbers and large bolts.

In addition, we will have a professional landscaping company there helping with these projects.

Tools or skills required:

There will be activities for all skill levels. Bring gloves, wear long pants, bring gardening and power tools if available. Wear sunscreen and bring a water bottle.

Ages:

There will be activities for all ages.

Additional Notes:

Download flyer:

Links: http://www.durhamcentralpark.org/

Contact Person: Kimberly Isley, Home: 919-956-2723 Cell: 919-608-0300

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