City of Glendale - News

3rd Annual Serve Day in Glendale
a Success Thanks to Volunteers

Serve Day is a faith-based, community-oriented event organized by the Community Church of Joy and several other local Glendale churches, who encourages their members to participate. This year’s Serve Day was on Saturday, Feb. 23 and was a huge success.

All activities were coordinated by the Neighborhood Services Coordinator Angie Wilkie who manages the city’s Community Volunteer Program.

More than 400 volunteers from various faith-based and community organizations, including City of Glendale employees, participated in the 3rd Annual Serve Day in Glendale on Feb. 23, 2008. The volunteers completed more than 2,000 volunteer hours for a total of $35,760 of volunteer time. More than 1,000 volunteers worked on 60 different projects in the entire West Valley. Volunteers completed the following Glendale projects including:

• East Catlin Court Neighborhood (painted 3 homes and filled two 30-yard dumpsters with debris)
• Ocotillo Rose Park (scraped and painted the entire block wall)
• Thunderbird Paseo Park (filled 54 bags with trash and debris)
• Skunk Creek (filled 22 bags with trash and debris)
• Sahuaro Ranch Park (picked 15,000 pounds of grapefruit that was donated to the Food Bank)
• Feeding lunch to Firefighters (fed lunch to numerous firefighters)
• Feeding lunch to Police Officers (fed lunch to numerous police officers)
• Xeriscape Garden (filled 3 dozen garbage cans with litter and dead plant material, propagated over four dozen cacti cuttings)
• Foothills Library (cleaned 3 tables and 20 shelves, assembled 60 boxes of library items for March 8 Mega Book Sale, and priced 200 books)
• Main Library (Packed 46 boxes of books, priced 15 carts of books, sorted & priced 3 carts of A/V books, researched 1 cart of priced books, shelved 2 carts of books, condensed books on 2 ranges of shelves, recycled damaged books)

Thanks to everyone who supported this community effort to make Glendale better.

Get Involved!

If you or your organization would like to learn more about getting involved as a volunteer, call Angie Wilkie at 623-930-2915, by email at awilkie@glendaleaz.com or visit our web site at www.glendaleaz.com and click on “Volunteer!”

Click here to visit the community volunteer page now!