The annual Community Care Days work weekend is this Friday, June 16th and Saturday, June 17th. Volunteer and Organizer Stan Jenks shares the background of how the community event got started:
“This was started back in 2009, a couple of churches came together and decided that there might be some people in the community that could use some help that might not be able to have the finances to make some little home repairs or maybe physical abilities have limited them to be able to do things and we thought lets see what could be done to help out. Here we are in 2023 and we have I think ten churches now that are involved with this project. We had to take a couple of years off for COVID, but boy we rebounded nicely.”
Eighteen projects will be taken on over the course of the two days by volunteers, explains Marcia Parrish:
“We have some yard work that we do for people. We also have some painting projects. It might be just a little project like painting around a window or something or it might be painting a porch. Then we also do some building projects that we have some men with some power tool skills and they build things to make life a little easier for people and repair things for them.”
Volunteers will meet in the Monmouth-Roseville High School parking lot at 8 am both Friday and Saturday before dispersing to the local projects.
