Love La Mirada is excited about their upcoming 4th annual Love La Mirada Day of Service event this Saturday, May 4th at 8 am. The goal of this event is to help people discover more about La Mirada, serve together to improve our neighborhoods and connect with other residents to create an even greater community.
Love La Mirada has put together over 20 service projects around the community and hopes to have many more volunteers this year. Whether you participate by yourself or as a family, there are plenty of day of service opportunities available. Here are some of the projects:
- Prayer Crew
- Backpacks for Homeless
- Letters to Troops
- Anna J. Martin Park – Painting Flowers & Horse Rail Painting
- Creek Park – Benches & Horse Rail Painting
- Frontier Park – Gardening
- Frontier Park – General facility clean-up
- Gardenhill Park – Clean Tiny Tots & Park Toys
- Gardenhill Park – Park Bench Painting
- Neff Park – George House Clean-Up
- Neff Park – Neff Barn Cleaning
- Neff Park – Park Bench Painting and Gardening
- Oak Creek Park – Horse Rail Painting
- Splash! La Mirada Regional Aquatics Center – Gardening
- Windermere Park – Clean Tiny Tots & Park Toys
- Event Set up Crew
- Helping Hands – Various Projects
- Mirada Hills Rehabilitation & Convalescent Hospital – Arts and Crafts
- Palms Retirement Community – Arts and Crafts
- Placemats for Seniors (Arts and Crafts)
- Granada Heights Lunch Crew
- Event Clean up Crew
- Benton Middle School – Gardening
- La Mirada High School – General Maintenance
The projects are posted on their website and volunteer registration is live. There are limited spots available for each project. Click here to go to the project list and select one that you’d like to volunteer for.
The day begins with a Love La Mirada Launch Rally at Granada Heights Friends Church. Radio station 95.9 The Fish will be in attendance with Starbucks gratuitously providing coffee for the volunteers. The La Mirada Royal All Stars dance team will get everyone fired up for this special city-wide service day. Project teams will get last minute updates and head out to projects sites around 9 am.
After completing service projects, teams will return to the Love La Mirada Launch Rally location at noon for a free thank-you lunch courtesy of Chick-fil-a La Habra Marketplace and Whittwood and a time of celebration for completing the Day of Service. Show your civic pride and make this year’s event a resounding success.
Source & Photo Credit: Love La Mirada