Tag Archives: community service

Serving in the Colorado flood relief efforts

Posted on October 16, 2013 by Shirley

Members of the Boulder Colorado Stake wore Mormon Helping Hands vests and lifted many people’s spirits on Sept. 29, 2013, in their ongoing efforts to help neighbors clean up their properties damaged by the flood. This video puts faces and … Continue reading →

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Colorado Cares Day 2004 strengthens communities

Posted on June 3, 2013 by Shirley

The City and County of Broomfield was concerned that some of its residents may not know where to obtain needed services, so it set out to change that. When Broomfield congregations of the Boulder Colorado Stake of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints asked how they could help their community for Colorado Cares Day 2004, they received the assignment to deliver packets of materials to selected neighborhoods.

About 45 volunteers gathered on Aug. 31, 2004, at The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1250 North Main Street, Broomfield, a church building in the Stake. They took stacks of pamphlets and fliers and divided them into numerous packets. Then, the volunteers walked through their assigned neighborhoods delivering information the residents were likely to need but may not know where to obtain it. The group worked for a total of 60 volunteer hours. Continue reading →

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Boulder Colorado Stake Cares for Colorado

Posted on June 2, 2013 by Shirley

BOULDER COUNTY (28 July 2007) — Sunshine finally won out over rain and snow so volunteers could complete their 2007 Colorado Cares Day project over two months ahead of the actual day of July 28. Nearly one hundred members of the Boulder Colorado Stake of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints painted housing structures on Sat., May 12, for the Boulder County Housing Authority in Louisville and Lafayette from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Regular folks turned painters took up scrapers and brushes, put down drop cloths and climbed ladders. They painted trim and balconies on two-story affordable housing units at Louisville’s Regal Square. They painted one-story housing structures for seniors and those with handicaps at Lafayette Villa West. Efforts beautified and helped maintain the properties as part of the Colorado Cares initiative encouraging service to honor Colorado’s statehood on Aug. 1, 1876.

The project was first registered for the 2006 Colorado Cares Day and slated for Aug. 5. Then, it rained every available weekend through September before the project was postponed to 2007. Luck didn’t change immediately in 2007 either as the project needed rescheduling twice. Continue reading →

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Mormon Helping Hands help Fourmile Fire victims

Posted on April 3, 2013 by Shirley

Barbara Stogsdill of Erie and Linda Eberhard of Broomfield sorted shoes, socks and clothes together on Friday for Fourmile Fire victims at Boulder County’s official donation center operated by the Boulder Office of Emergency Management.

The women were among the 230 “Mormon helping hands” volunteers wearing their yellow vests who served a total of approximately 1,000 hours Friday and Saturday alone. Continue reading →

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