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Bayside of Folsom and some of our key community partners are teaming up this Saturday, May 21 for “Folsom Serve Day.” We’ll have hundreds of volunteers serving at any one of 13 projects taking place in 9 locations (see below for descriptions). Our projects will include caring for the elderly, supporting local charities that feed families in need, maintaining school yards and facilities and ministering to inmates and their families. We’re expecting to have at least 200 volunteers serving with us! To kick things off, we’ll meet at the Folsom City Park at 403 Stafford Street in Folsom for a continental breakfast between 7:30 – 8:30am. After breakfast and preparation, we’ll head out to our projects and serve our community. See you there!
Support 4 Soldiers Care Packages (9am – 12pm) Lakeside Church; 745 Oak Avenue Pkwy.
Bayside will be doing the initial work in assembling care packages to be sent to our troops for the 4th of July. Volunteers will write letters, sign flags and greeting cards and prepare flyers for distribution. This is a kid-friendly activity and will include a coloring corner for kids. A special area is the Flag Pin Craft Project in which USA flags will be made with beads and safety pins. Volunteers will also be assembling and taping flat cardboard boxes so they can be filled, as well as stuffing bags with special items from our soldiers’ wish lists.
Folsom Prison Hospitality (11am – 2pm) Folsom Prison, 300 Prison Rd.
Volunteers will be on-hand to serve food and beverages to the corrections and custody staff at Old Folsom as they come to work for the day. They’ll also be serving the families visiting loved ones (inmates) there.
Super Seniors at the Zoo (9am – 12pm) Folsom Convalescent Home, 510 Mill St.
Volunteer families will connect with a senior citizen from the Folsom Convalescent Hospital and wheelchair them to and through the Folsom Zoo and back. For those seniors who are unable to attend, volunteers will provide fun activities at the Folsom Convalescent Home.
Buy a can; help a family! (two-hour shifts from 9am – 5pm)
Five stores in Folsom: Bel-Air (E. Bidwell St.); Grocery Outlet (671 E. Bidwell St.); Raley’s (Blue Ravine Rd. and E. Bidwell St.); Save Mart (E. Bidwell St.)
Bayside volunteers will hand out flyers with a shopping list of items needed by the four charities it’s supporting (Alternatives Pregnancy Center, Twin Lakes Food Bank, Powerhouse Ministries and Kidz Klothes Line). Customers will purchase items in the store and donate them at a table near the store exit.
Schools’ Family Fun Day (9am – 12pm) Folsom Lions City Park and Zoo, 403 Stafford St.
A fun day for families with children in afterschool programs including STARS, JUMP, Student Care, Cultural Connections at Theodore Judah and Blanche Sprentz Elementary Schools. Bayside will be forming “friend groups” that include volunteer and student families. They’ll stick together for the morning while visiting the zoo, watching a gazebo performance, eating snacks and other fun activities.
Fix-up Day! (9am – 12pm) Powerhouse Ministries; 311 Market St.
Bayside volunteers will be working on a list of projects including carpet/upholstery cleaning, power washing sidewalks, washing and waxing vehicles, yard work and cleanup to benefit Powerhouse Ministries in Folsom.
Spring Preparation (9am – 12pm) Sundance Montessori School, 216 Natoma St.
Bayside volunteers will work with the school to provide yard and area maintenance to its gardens, playgrounds and other structures. Activities will include planting, weeding, painting and more.
Hinkle Creek Trail Clean up (9am – 12pm; 12pm – 3pm) 7000 Baldwin Dam Rd.
At the trailhead of the new Oak Parkway Trail, volunteers will be cleaning up and beautifying three spots of the trailhead area by putting in bender board, putting down plastic and wood chips to beautify the area and assisting with general clean up.
Folsom Middle School Campus Clean up (9am – 12pm) 500 Blue Ravine Rd.
Home to Bayside of Folsom, volunteers will work to clean up the landscape, fix sprinkler systems, spread bark and more.
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