April 9, 2010

Join us at the Seneca Niagara Casino at 8:00 am for the Kick Off!

We held our annual work party to bundle the bags and gloves on April 1st and April 6th at the Niagara Falls Fire Department HQ building on Walnut Avenue. Our Fire Chief, William MacKay, lets us store all our supplies in that building and even lets us come and hold our work party in his conference room.

Linda Gibbons, Marge Gillies, Betsy Diachun, Kathy Russell, Joan Broderick, Norma, Chief MacKay, Roger Spurback, Doris Hampton and Mary Ann Rolland.

This is the April 1st work crew and it may look like we are standing around but as you can see below - it was steady work with not many breaks.

Each volunteer will receive three small kitchen size white bags and one large black bag with a pair of gloves and some latex gloves to wear inside to ward off any dampness. Some of the crew worked in teams and some worked alone. Roger and I were the suppliers - opening the boxes and putting the items on the table. Hard to keep up sometimes as these were eager beavers.

Here's Roger getting ready to "toss" a bundle of gloves to some waitng volunteers at the end of the table.

The second work day some of us came back. Must have been all the fun we had. There was a lot of laughter and Roger (the only male in the room on April 1st) was happy to see some men the next work day.

Linda Gibbons (back to camera), Roger Spurback, Rose Hovivian, Joan Broderick, Doris Hampton, Norma, Chief MacKay, Mary Ann Rolland,Tonja Crowell, Willene Jones, Michael Watson, David Cooper, Violet Fritts.

The white bags were donated by the Glad Bag Company through the Great American Clean Up and the black bags were supplied by the Niagara Falls Block Club Council and the Niagara Beautification Commission. The gloves were donated by Modern Corporation and the Niagara Falls Block Club Council and NBC. Niagara Falls Memorial Medical Center donated the latex gloves we ask everyone to wear inside the work glove to protect the hands.

And last but not least, the Maid of the Mist Corp. donates their easily recognizable "blue rain poncho" just in case. No rain for a few years so we are confident the sun will shine on us this year also.

Have you signed up yet? Call ReNU Niagara at 205-0287 and join the fun and help Beautify Niagara at the same time. All of the volunteers and the suppliers deserve a big round of applause for their help in making our event a success.