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More SPRING CLEAN-UP Projects...
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Let's help our neighbors with Spring Clean-Up! Contact VIS to learn more: 616.459.7500 or cscholtens@visgr.org.
North East Kent County
Cedar Springs: Donna is 70 years old and lives alone. She needs help this spring weeding the flower beds around her house. She also needs help edging the sidewalks to the pole barn, the driveway, and along the bricks that detail the flower beds. She has an edger and a weed wacker. (South of 17 Mile Rd NE between Myers Lake Ave NE and Northland Dr)
*Comstock Park: Merlinda is 71 years old and lives alone on a corner lot. She needs someone to do the edging along her sidewalks and driveway. Her small apple tree and bushes need trimming. She also needs a hole dug for her food scraps. She has a ladder, shovel, edger and weed wacker. (Pine Island Dr NE & US-131)
NE Grand Rapids: Rachelle needs her lawn mowed once. Not a large lawn. She has a mower and gas. There are a few pine boughs in the back that need to be picked up. The flower beds also need to be raked out and weeded. She will purchase lawn bags for the refuse. (Plymouth Ave NE & Fulton St E)
Rockford*: Nancy is 68 years old, disabled, and lives alone. She has several tall ornamental grasses that need to be trimmed and other areas of the yard to be trimmed and raked. Tree branches in the back also need to be cleaned up. Volunteers need to bring their own tools. Nancy also needs the outside of her windows washed and the trim on the outside of her house painted. Volunteers can offer to help with one or all of her projects. (14 Mile Rd NE & Wellman Ave NE)
North West Kent County
*NW Grand Rapids: Darline is 75 years old and lives alone. She has a tattered flag that needs to be taken off the pole and replaced with the new one she has, but the pole must be lifted out of the ground to accomplish the task. Also, her deck needs power washing and the frame of her garage service door needs painting. She can borrow a power washer and has the paint and brushes for the door. (Lake Michigan Dr & Collindale Ave NW)
NW Grand Rapids: Patsy is 75 years old, lives alone, and has trouble walking. She needs the flower beds and weeds cleaned out along her front and back yard fences as well as general clean-up of her yard. She has a yard waste bin and paper yard waste bags for the refuse. (Walker Ave NW & Leonard St NW)
South East Kent County
Caledonia: Teri is 78 years old and lives alone. Her husband, a military veteran, passed away in January 2021. Teri's neighbor usually mows her lawn (1.5 acres), but she broke her tailbone and isn't able to do it right now. Teri doesn't have a mower. She's asking for a one time mow.
*Kentwood: Bernadette is 65 years old and lives alone. She needs her front, back and side yards raked and her picnic table put back out in the yard. She has rakes. She also has lawn bags that then need to be dumped at the Kentwood leaf dump. In the fall, 6-7 teens/adults raked the yard in a couple hours. (52nd SE & Kalamazoo Ave SE: Near the Jaycee Park)
SE Grand Rapids: Derrick is 59 years old and lives alone. Derrick has a heart condition. He needs someone to mow his lawn, rake his yard, and edge the sidewalks. Volunteers need to bring their own tools and mower. (44th St SW & Eastern Ave SE)
SE Grand Rapids: Helen and her husband (with dementia) are in their 90’s. They have requested help pulling weeds and trimming some small bushes. They have tools and a yard waste bin volunteers can use. (Lake Dr SE and Woodlawn Ave SE)
SE Grand Rapids: Janice is 76 years old. She needs help raking the leaves in the backyard. Leaves can be put on tarps and dumped in the backwoods. Then the lawn needs to be mowed. Volunteers need to bring their own mower, rakes and tarps. (32St SE & Kalamazoo Ave SE)
South West Kent County
SW Grand Rapids: Gennie is 71 years old, disabled, and lives alone. She needs someone to mow her lawn one time this spring. She does not have a lawn mower. (Stafford Ave SW & 44th St SW)
SW Grand Rapids: Robert is 68 years old and legally blind. He has someone to mow his lawn, but the grass is too tall for the mower to cut it until it can be wacked down. Robert does not have a weed wacker. Due to his blindness, he didn’t realize how long the grass had become, and now the City has sent a citation. Request is for a volunteer to weed wack his lawn to a height that the lawn mower will work. (Buchanan Ave SW, between Burton St SW & 28th St SE)
*Also promoted in the April 2024 Newsletter. Volunteer not found yet.
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