This year’s Clark County Connects Day of Service will be more personal. Volunteer projects happening Saturday include building a skirt for a woman who lives in a fifth-wheel trailer, helping out a veteran who has an overgrown yard and hauling debris from an elderly couple’s property.
As the name implies, the annual day of service is all about connecting people with the community’s needs and local nonprofit organizations. By doing a one-day project, maybe somebody gets introduced to a nonprofit and later becomes a regular volunteer.
“There are so many people who want to help, and they just don’t know where or how,” said Tina Carnahan. She chairs the steering committee, which is made up of people from different service organizations, such as the Salvation Army, Human Services Council and local Lions Club chapters.
Volunteers can pick from nearly 30 service projects. Among the possibilities: People can clean and landscape schools, rid parks of invasive plants, sort donations of children’s clothing and school supplies, pick up trash along 99th Street, work at Evergreen Habitat for Humanity’s ReStore or clean sleeping mats for a winter homeless shelter.
