Project: Flag Pole Garden
Team Leader: Sherri Reed
Description: Weed, enrich soil, mulch, and plant perennials and fall
flowers in the large flower box outside Apalachin Fire Department Station
#2
Location: AFD Station #2; Route 434
Time Commitment: 9AM until 3PM
Age Limits: All ages are welcome!
Participants Needed: 3 to 10
Special Skills Required: Gardening
What to Bring: gardening tools, shovel, gloves, lots of energy
Project: Yard Clean-up
Team Leader: Will Roden
Description: The activities will include yard cleanup, scraping, painting,
plumbing, and
gutter work. If you like to paint, trim, or fix things, please join
us. There is a lot of work for everyone.
We have a chance to make a big impact on his life with about 4 hours
of work from several people.
Location: Local home in the Apalachin area.
Time Commitment: We will begin at 9AM.
Age Limit: All ages are welcome!
Participants Needed: up to 25
What to Bring: saw, trimmers, work gloves
Project: Child Care
Team Leader: Paul Reed
Description: provide day care for children up to age 10 while their
parents do mission work; activities will be provided, games, reading,
coloring, crafts
Location: Park Terrace
Time Commitment: 9AM until 3PM; sign up for one hour shifts
Age Limit: over 16
Participants Needed: need at least 2 per hour; 1 must be adult
Special Skills: enjoy kids
Project: Sewing
Team Leader: Jan Perry
Description: volunteers will help in several sewing projects that include
pot-holders for Sky Lake and “walker bags” for residents
of nursing homes
Location: Park Terrace
Time Commitment: 9AM until done
Age Limit: All ages are welcome!
Participants Needed: up to 12
Special Skills: basic sewing skills are helpful
What to Bring: sewing machine, fabric scissors, thread and other basic
sewing supplies
Project: Cookie Baking
Team Leader: Lourie Morris
Description: Make/ bake cookies for inmates at Camp McCormick (located
in Candor for serious youthful offenders) and for the Fairy Godmother
Brigade to send to US Troops
Location: Park Terrace
Time Commitment: 9:30AM until we finish; we will organize “shifts”
if needed.
Age Limit: All ages are welcome!
Participants Needed: up to 25
Special Skills: love of baking
What to Bring: bring your favorite recipes, dry ingredients, mixing
bowls and cookie sheets; “ziplock” bags for shipping and
wet ingredients will be provided
Project: Home Rehab
Team Leader: Dan Coleman
Description: do various home rehab projects including: install skirting
around base of mobile home, reseal the entire roof, build a porch and
steps, do some exterior painting. This is a two-day project taking place
on both Saturday and Sunday
Location: home is located in Barton, NY
Time Commitment: 8AM until 4PM both Saturday, September 22 and Sunday,
September 23
Age Limit: All ages are welcome!
Participants Needed: 6 to 8 adults
Special Skills: basic carpentry skills
What to Bring: hand power tools (hammer, drill, circular saw, tape measure,
paint brushes, scrapers, other painting supplies)
Project: Paint Latticework
Team Leader: To be determined later.
Description: scrape, prep, and paint latticework around a porch
Location: local home in the Owego area
Time Commitment: 8AM until done
Age Limit: All ages are welcome!
Participants Needed: up to 5 (at least 2 adults)
Special Skills: basic painting skills
What to Bring: scrapers, wire brushes, paint brushes, drop clothes,
paper towels, paint supplies
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Project: Nursing Home Visit #1
Team Leader: Phyllis Watson
Description: Volunteers will interact with residents while participating
in a staff-arranged activity.
Location: Absolute at Endicott (formerly The Waters); 301 Nantucket
Drive, Endicott
Time Commitment: 10:30AM until 11:30AM
Age Limits: Ages 10 and up.
Participants Needed: 5 to 6
Project: Nursing Home Visit #2
Team Leader: Marcia Inman
Description: Volunteers will interact with residents doing activities
such as painting nails, reading, playing board games.
Location: Riverview Manor Health Care Center; 510 5th Avenue, Owego
Time Commitment: 10:30AM until 11:30AM
Age Limits: All ages are welcome!
Participants Needed: 7 to 8
Project: Feed the Hungry #1
Team Leader: Karen Iby-Patricia
Description: volunteers will set up, serve, and clean up after dinner;
meal is cooked by Salvation Army staff
Location: Salvation Army; 127- 130 Washington Avenue, Binghamton
Time Commitment: 4PM until 6:30PM
Age Limit: All ages are welcome!
Participants Needed: 5 to 6
Project: Feed the Hungry #2
Team Leader: Joan Cook
Description: volunteers are needed to set up, cook, serve, and clean
up breakfast; an important component of this project is sharing the
meal and getting acquainted with breakfast guests
Location: First Endicott UMC; 53 McKinley Avenue, Endicott
Time Commitment: 7:30AM until 10:30AM
Age Limit: All ages are welcome!
Participants Needed: 6 to 8
Project: Nursing Home Worship “A”
Team Leader: Paul Reed
Description: create and deliver a worship service for residents at local
nursing home; help will be provided in developing service if needed
Location: Susquehanna Nursing Home; 282 Riverside Drive; Johnson City
Time Commitment: worship begins at 2:30PM and time varies depending
on your worship; could take up to an hour
Age Limit: All ages are welcome!
Participants Needed: up to 10
Project: Nursing Home Worship “B”
Team Leader: Paul Reed
Description: create and deliver a worship service for residents at local
nursing home; help will be provided in developing service if needed
Location: Absolute at Endicott (formerly The Waters); 301 Nantucket
Drive, Endicott
Time Commitment: worship begins at 2:30PM and time varies depending
on your worship; could take up to an hour
Age Limit: All ages are welcome!
Participants Needed: up to 10
Project: Build a Ramp
Team Leader: To be determined later.
Description: under guidance of Office of the Aging, we will build a
handicap ramp
Location: home in Waverly, NY
Time Commitment: 8AM until 4PM both Saturday and Sunday
Age Limit: over 18
Participants Needed: 2 to 4
Special Skills: some carpentry skills would be helpful
What to Bring: hand and power tools
Project: Bottle Drive
Team Leader: Stacy Wickham
Description: volunteers will collect bottles and cans from houses in
the Terrace; then sort and count; funds raised will be used to support
land-mine sniffing dogs in Africa
Location: meet at Park Terrace
Time Commitment: 1PM until 4PM
Age Limit: All ages are welcome!
Participants Needed: up to 30
What to Bring: check the website above for more information on this
United Methodist sponsored program.
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