Join Hands Day

A lively group of Saturday morning warriors gathered to do a community service project as part of the national Join Hands Day, where across the country, teams of youth and adults worked on a community service project together. We chose to do a little clean-up/ straighten up at our 1611 Latrobe St. property. A group fixed the broken door on the storage building out back, some side yard trimming and bush clean up went on. We moved a freezer over to the community office and cleaned it up from 5 years of neglect. We brought over a bunch of boxes of craft supplies to the Mid Town Family Resource Center, and took down some blinds and shelves. We carted off some trash. This was a cheery little work crew, who built some good group-ness, and finished up with some pizza. The VISTA's, including April from Greenbriar County, were involved in this as part of some on going awareness raising of the various national days of community service (since we got snowed out of our Martin Luther King day event. Marina, our BSW intern, and her husband, and another student from WV State University pitched in and some Youth Advantage youth and their fearless leader, Travis also pitched in. Staff from our own Runaway and Homeless Youth programs also gamely helped out with the organizing and the work. We hope this gives a little momentum to the work of renovating Latrobe St. for our independent living efforts.