VOLUNTEERING
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Alexi's Garden Volunteers
Our Volunteers are very special to our project. Many hours have been donated to building and maintaining our Garden in addition to building stronger teams and families. Alexi's Garden is a very special place in our community to help our kids.
We appreciate all that you do.
The slideshows illustrate the many projects and hours contributed by our volunteers at Alexi's Garden during the development. Please see the full Photo Gallery of volunteer photos. You can find your photo by searching on the date you participated in the format YEAR-MONTH-DAY.
Statistics
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Group |
Total Volunteer hours |
Ankrum Construction |
36 |
Arc of Clark County |
459 |
Clark County Juvenile Court |
537 |
Community Service-Student |
5 |
Community volunteer |
760 |
Girl Scouts |
10 |
Hewlett Packard |
2300 |
Integrity Safety Services |
23 |
Kiwanis Club |
8 |
Larry Stryker Dentistry |
30 |
LDS - Grass Valley Ward |
65 |
Merrill Lynch |
71 |
Shorty's Nursery |
2 |
Van Zant Construction |
25 |
Vancouver Carpenters Local 1715 VOC |
43 |
Hewlett Packard Young Employee Network |
37 |
Hockinson School Senior Class |
50 |
Total |
~4500 |
Volunteer Opportunities
TOPWe celebrate gifts of time and hours of effort. Contributing 95% of the labor required to create Alexi's Garden our volunteers and their dedication moved mountains. Alexi's family, Arc staff and communityand corporate volunteers turned the vision of a playground into reality. In sunshine and rain the work continued and volunteers left tired and happy, celebrating each day of progress. We sincerely appreciate every hour of support from our volunteers.
Date |
Time |
General Project Description | Volunteer Groups | # Volunteers requested |
Sponsors support |
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Volunteering Contact: Jeff Hendricks | 360-600-1513
Volunteering Information
- MAP to Arc Family Center
- Local weather conditions
- Volunteer appreciation certificate (download and print)
What to bring?
- Clothes that are appropriate for outdoor work that can get soiled with concrete, etc
- Work shoes. Rubber boots if doing concrete or landscape.
- Leather and/or rubber gloves
- If you would like to bring tools appropriate for your workday, please do so.
- Your team to provide lunch
- No experience required for any of the tasks
What we will have?
- All necessary materials and most tools
- Water and snacks
- Project Knowledge and leadership
- Have FUN!
Location
Arc Family Center
6511 SE 18th Street
Vancouver, WA
Contact: Jeff Hendricks (600-1513)
MAP to Arc Family Center
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Photo Gallery Link (see date stamp in album for volunteer day - Date stamp format: YEAR-MONTH-DAY)
Also, see Volunteer at the bottom of this page to view all the great volunteers that made this project happen.
Maintenance work days will no longer be recorded after 4/15/2009.
Date |
General Project Description | Volunteer Groups | Volunteers (total hours) |
Sponsors |
4/4/2009 |
Recognition wall hardware installation, Ryan's fountain concrete and rock prep, plant install, yard weed, bark | HP YEN program, CCJC, Hockinson High School, community volunteers, Arc Family Center staff | 24 |
Parkrose Hardware |
3/22/2009 |
Ryan's fountain concrete preperation, recognition wall painting, plant install and weeding | HP YEN program, CCJC, Hockinson High School, community volunteers, Arc Family Center staff | 22 |
Parkrose Hardware Enchanted Gardens Home Depot |
11/1/2008 |
Fall cleanup | CCJC, Shawn and girls, Jeff Hendricks family, Jake and Randy | 11 |
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6/26/2008 |
Building repair, paint, yard work | HP-Writing Systems team, others | Parkrose Hardware |
4/26/2008 |
The volunteers from CCJC and Stryker Dentistry office cleaned up the yard, weeded, and painted for our new ADA ramp. In addition, the front of the building was fully washed | CCJC, Stryker Dentistry, and community volunteers | 14
(70) |
Parkrose Hardware | 4/18/2008 |
G&S welding completed the ADA ramp railing on this day. In addition, we had youth from the Vancouver Deaf School volunteering their time to help Claire with indoor and outdoor projects | Vancouver Deaf School | 8
-30 |
G&S Welding-Boring, OR | 3/29/2008 |
The volunteers from CCJC cleaned up the yard, weeded, and helped with cleanup of kids toys, and window cleaning inside the building for PRIDE. | CCJC and community volunteers | 7
-30 |
Parkrose Hardware | 1/25/2008 |
Lenka and Joyce Helping with the recognition wall graphics design! | See volunteer table | 10/5/2007 |
HP Phoenix Team and CCJC mowing tall grass, ADA door completion, ADA overhang painting, storage shelf completion, etc | HP Phoenix Team and CCJC youth | Integrity Safety Services Parr Lumber |
9/14 and 9/15/2007 |
Vancouver VOC 2 days with 3 union contractor volunteers building an overhang for the ADA access door landing area. | Vancouver VOC | Integrity Safety Services Parr Lumber |
9/7/2007 |
Painting window trim, cleaning and weeding yard, and watering plants | CCJC youth | 8/24/2007 |
HP SS and WS employees installing windows in main building, window trim, ADA door initial set, storage room shelves, CCJC yard work. | HP SS and WS and CCJC youth | Integrity Safety Services Parr Lumber |
7/27/2007 |
HP Media handling team employees installing windows in main building and window trim. | HP Media handling team and CCJC youth | Integrity Safety Services Parr Lumber |
7/20/2007 |
HP Service Station Team employees completing window trim and storage shelving. | HP Service Station Team | Integrity Safety Services Parr Lumber |
6/8/2007 |
HP ME teams and Model shop employees installing windows in main building and building indoor storage room. | HP ME teams and Model shop | Integrity Safety Services Parr Lumber |
5/19/2007 |
CCJC youth and First Independent Bank employees installing landscape plants and stripping concrete forms. | CCJC youth and First Independent Bank | 5/18/2007 |
HP Servo Team completing wheel chair ramp forms and concrete pouring. | HP Servo Team | Parkrose Hardware | 5/9/2007 |
HP Image Science Team creating forms for wheel chair ramp. | HP Image Science Team | Parkrose Hardware | 4/28/2007 |
CCJC youth installing rock for dry creek bed. | CCJC | City Bark | 1/27/2007 |
Paint safety posts, clean area, install fence. | CCJC | Rick’custom Fencing | 12/8/2006 |
HP Servo Team for completing fence and installing projector. | HP Servo team | 11/5/2006 |
Weeding our beautiful flower beds around the building. Mackenzie is a local high school student motivated to make a difference in her community. | Scott and Mackenzie Smith | 11/4/2006 |
Clark County Juvenile Center (CCJC) donated another day of their time to give back to their community. Thank you for helping t the Arc Family Center! | CCJC youth | 10/27/2006 |
10 Hewlett Packard employees from 2 teams helped once again (12 teams to date) with installing an entry fence and with the retrofit and completion of the safety railing. Thank you. | HP Carriage and PDI team | 8/20/2006 |
General site tool cleanup | Jeff and Karen |
| More to be added |
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Volunteer List
TOPVolunteers since October 2005!
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