The day after a celebration of West Seattle’s amazing volunteer power – a new request for you to be part of our community’s volunteer efforts, by pitching in to help with a big project. One month from today, the Arbor Heights Elementary PTSA will lead a project to paint the school playground – they provided the “before” photo and this call for help (which goes to the community at large as well as those already affiliated with the school) – the eventual “after” photo would include a big map of the states, among other things:

The PTSA is working on a project to paint the school playground. The painting project is to include some of the existing covered and outside play areas, but we will be adding some additional games. We are looking for volunteers to help in the process. Currently we need volunteers for 3 different days. We are open to any and all assistance, from parents, staff, and older students. Any day you would be able to help would be useful.

Day one (Saturday, August 21st, 9:00am-3:00pm)

We need help with cleaning, grass removal, sweeping, laying out new line work. We would need shovels, wheelbarrows, brooms, leaf blowers, etc. If a group of artistic volunteers could help with laying out some of the new line work, that would be greatly appreciated. We are adding some very fun, artistic, creative games for the kids.

Read ahead to see what they need for days 2 and 3, and how to sign up:

Day two, Two shifts (Tuesday, August 24th, 9:00am-12:00pm) (Tuesday, August 24th, 1:00pm-4:00pm)

We need help with painting. This day we will be doing most of the painting process. We have a volunteer group who wanted to do a promotional project in the City of Seattle. This group is from the radio stations, 99.9, 107.7, 100.7, and 103.7. It’s great PR for them and extra help for us. But we would like to have some of the local community to assist in the painting process also.

We also need assistance with serving coffee, water, snacks, etc. We would need a crew to help with set up and another for clean up. The more assistance would can get for this day the smother it would go.

Day three (Saturday, August 28th, 9:00am-3:00pm)

We will use this day to do any final painting that did not get completed, touch ups, and all finish work.

If you have any questions or want to volunteer, please e-mail me directly and let me know which day would work for you.

Thank you so much, and I hope to see you all on the playground.

John Christensen
chrstnsnjp@yahoo.com