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SPRING CLEAN-UP...
Can You Help?
Grab a friend or a couple family members, your small group, Bible study group or youth group! Let's help our neighbors with Spring Clean-Up! Contact VIS to learn more: 616.459.7500 or cscholtens@visgr.org.
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)
Kentwood: Linda is 69 years old and lives alone. Her backyard leaves didn't get cleaned up last fall and sticks have fallen down in the front due to winter storms. She has a yard waste bin and bags for the leaves. She has 2 rakes. (44th St SE & Eastern Ave SE)
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)
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)
Rockford: Nancy is 68 years old, disabled and lives alone. She has several tall ornamental grasses from last year 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. (14 Mile Rd NE & Wellman Ave NE)
Rockford: Susan is 65 years old. She is disabled and lives alone. Susan needs spring clean up completed in her yard including removal of wood from a downed oak tree. (12 Mile Rd NE & Summit Ave NE)
Rockford: Bob is 89 years old and lives alone. Bob needs the leaves raked at his home. He has one rake. It would be helpful if the volunteers could bag them and take them away. (Myers Lake Ave NE & 11 Mile Rd NE)
SE Grand Rapids: Burnette is 71 years old. She needs her yard raked and flower beds cleaned out. She has a yard waste bin. Volunteers need to bring their own tools. (Burton St SE & Eastern Ave SE)
SE Grand Rapids: Janice is 76 years old. She needs help raking the front and back yard. Leaves can be put on tarps and dumped in the back woods. Volunteers need to bring their own rakes and tarps. (32St SE & Kalamazoo Ave SE)
SW Grand Rapids: Sandy is 85 years old. She fell recently and isn't able to work in her yard. She needs help with weeding and trimming bushes. Volunteers need to bring their own tools. (68th St SW & Division Ave S)
Wyoming: Cindi is 69 years old and uses a walker. She needs some bushes and tree branches near the house trimmed as well as her deck power washed. Volunteers need to bring their own tools. She has a small power washer. (44th St SW & Byron Center Ave SW)
Wyoming: William is 73 years old, on hospice care. He would like to get his yard in order this spring for his wife before he passes. William needs sticks picked up, some light raking, and debris under his pine tree cleaned up in the backyard. He also needs the lawn mowed once. He has 2 good rakes and a lawn mower. He can provide money for a volunteer to get gas for the mower. He does not have lawn bags for the debris. (52nd St SW & Byron Center Ave SW)
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