GDS: Projects

Van Alstyne
Great Days
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Projects for 2011

Outdoor Projects:
Make Sherman Beautiful: Help return natural beauty to our area.

Pick up trash & debris around areas in Sherman. Weed-eat brush, grass, & weeds in overgrown areas.
   1. Downtown Cleanup
   2. Graffiti Cleanup
   3. Highway Cleanup

Adult supervisors will be needed to work with Service Academy for Youth participants. Homes will be referred by the city. Scraping & painting will be done on the outsides of homes. Projects will be done on Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday from 8 a.m. - Noon.

We will celebrate our community with Hot Summer Nights on Thursday, June 23rd. We will have Bounce Houses for the children, face painting, popsicles and more. Vendors are needed to pass out flyers or give-a-ways. Items can have company logos on them. Our thank you to our community, for all the Volunteer work and monetary contributions to help others.

Paint house numbers on curbsides to help with 911 emergencies. Work with Service Academy or your group could organize a time to meet.

Indoor Projects:

A meal will be served to city, county, state and federal employees on Thursday, June 23. Volunteers will be needed to make homemade desserts for the meal. Donations of new give-a-way items like ball caps, t-shirts, coolers, and more will be accepted. Items may have company logos on them.

Help deliver Care Packages to recipients on Friday from 10 – Noon. Also, monetary donations are taken up to help purchase food throughout the year for Meals on Wheels.

The new Soup Kitchen at 110 Throckmorton runs M - F from 10 - 1. Volunteers are needed to help clean up, organize books and food, and help make care packages for customers that visit the soup kitchen. Donations of toiletry items will be accepted.

This will be a community-wide food drive held to restock the food banks in the community. Volunteers may bring donations of food or money to partner groups by June 21. Monetary donations can be made to GDS.

Volunteers will make receiving blankets and gowns for newborn infants. On-going all week. Dedication will take place on Thursday afternoon.

Teams of volunteers will visit nursing home residents on Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday.

“Care Packages” will be provided to people in need of encouragement including Meals on Wheels. Volunteers will be needed to help assemble the packages on Wednesday & Thursday and to deliver them on Friday. Sample-sized personal products, individually wrapped snack packages, notepads & pens, small packages of tissues, & baby diapers may be dropped off at any of the partner churches.

Adults will have the opportunity to read to children at the Rosa Hill Community Center, and Project Transformation students in the area.

A one day camp on June 25th, for survivors of traumatic brain injury. Adults are needed to help by bringing food, work in kitchen, or buddy with a camper. (Not responsible for care giving.) This camp is in partner with Great Days and will be held at the CCLC on that Saturday from 9 - 3. Co-sponsors: Baylor Rehab. & United Methodist Women.