This was my first year serving with COSILoveYou (various reasons for that – maybe another blog post), although I’ve lived at least part-time in the Springs now for ten years (CityServe’s been around for nine years). I served at the Colorado School for the Deaf and Blind, and they were very organized. I love that. When people are organized. I don’t like my time wasted…! 😊😏. Meeting Donna Thurston, CEO of RoundupFellowship was awesome. Especially since I’ve been working behind-the-scenes during the last few weeks as part of Page Public Relations‘ efforts to highlight more of Roundup’s work for 50 years, with folks with developmental delays, physical delays and neurodiversity. It was also cool, having some nice conversation with the staff who supervised us and finding out more about the school (maybe also another blog post). AND finding out I’m not the only one who also uses a snow shovel for gardening (you can scoop so much!). Local Channel 5 KOAA covered it here.
These benches were from various locations around the school campus – by the basketball courts, at a bus stop – and had been weathered by time.
When we turned one bench upside down (in background), we found the names of the 2010 students who’d donated that bench for their senior project. Facilities staff planned to clear coat that section — and also current students were going to add back in touches like Bulldog (the school’s mascot) footprints.
There were another two volunteers from Medi-Share who had volunteered for several years with CityServe.
