I just wanted to give you an update on the BonaResponds Local Service day. As you know it is next Saturday April 21st. We'd love to have you come and help (and bring 10 friends each ;) )!
We have about 15 jobs to do. The jobs range from small to large, from inside to outside, from cooking to cutting trees, making trails to painting dugouts. from easy to hard but he one thing that all the jobs have in common is that they will make the area a better one! I cannot tell you how excited I am to be involved. I think this really will be a very big day for the community and the campus.
As you know, the City of Olean has had some major budget problems of late that have resulted in many service cuts. This will be our opportunity for Bonaventure to Respond to the local needs precipitated by these cuts. We will be working with the Community Schools and also the Parks Department on major jobs.
For the schools, we will be helping to renovate the old Nabisco Warehouse and moving items from the recently closed North Hill Elementary. For the Olean City Parks we will be cleaning Gargoyle Park and helping it to be fixed up after recent flood damage (for instance the pavilion is full of mud and must be cleaned and repainted).
We will also be working with the Olean Hiking group on cleaning the Allegany River Trail and local high schools (Walsh and Allegany) and various campus groups.
The day will progress as follows:
| Time | Where and What | Leader | Needed | Notes |
| 9:00-9:30 AM | Murphy AUD
Registration | Anthony | Forms, pens, and Tables |
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| Coffee and donuts (AND TEA ;) In front hall of Murphy |
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| Ask for donations?? Ask me. |
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| t-shirts? Donations? | James and ? Meghan |
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| Videos and other Marketing | Ryan? |
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| 9:30-meeting | In Aud | Me (jim) | Will give overview and break into groups | |
| 10-4:30 | Need someone to stay in Murphy and coordinate where everyone is, coordinate as some finish jobs to sent them to next job, sign up those coming late, etc | |||
| 10-4:00 | Community Service time Various locations (see below) | |||
| 4:15-5:30? | BBQ and reflection Outside of UMIN or in Butler if rain | Br Ed and _??___ | Food, grills, electric cords, speakers, radios, CD, etc.
| See me or James about food |
| 5:30-6:30 | Clean up | Putting tools back, cleaning tools, picking up after BBQ |
| NEED AS MANY AS POSSIBLE |
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Service
This is what why we are doing the local service day and this is what people will remember more than anything else. So let’s get lots done and make it fun!! To all leaders and project coordinators, the more fun we make it, the more volunteers will be willing to come back. So please try to make it fun. From music, to showing how much work gets done, to even just saying thanks!
Jobs off Campus
| Where | What | Approx how long and how many | Leader | Notes |
| Olean City Parks | Gargoyle will be heart of project—HUGE! Mudding out pavilion where floods have left it a mess! Painting, cleaning up branches etc
If done early, other parks | 40 all day? | Charlie/James
| This is going to be HUGE! Big, high profile, and will set stage for many other things down the road—Good investment! |
| St Joseph’s Manor area | Clean up between St. Joseph’s manor and Allegany River Trail/Dikes | 6-10 (one hour) |
| Just looks bad Easy work _Take garbage bags |
| Allegany River Trail Clean up | From front of campus to Gargoyle Park | 6-10 2 hours |
| End at Gargoyle and work there Take garbage bags |
| SPCA | TBD | 10- 3/4 of day?? | Kristie/Marissa | John from SPCA em’d & assured me he will get details by Monday |
| Archbishop Walsh | Putting gravel in parking lot holes | 10 (half day) |
| This will also be done by Walsh Parents and students-We will act as leaders. |
| Painting chapel and a few class rooms | 10-20 2-6 hours. | Patrick? | This one is a back up. It may not get done, but if weather is really bad, this can be done. | |
| Olean Community Schools (the Old Nabisco warehouse) | gutting (possibly salvaging some for reuse) sanding/scraping/spackling walls painting sorting 20 pallets of text books for donation
| 10 | Laura/Jen/Nick | Could be both most fun and largest project—likely to be not finished on one day. (transportation issues?) * what tools needed? |
| St. John’s Church in Olean | Landscaping?? | 8 | Jennifer Davis | They have been VERY good with both donations and volunteers. We will do this one! |
| Allegany State Forest trails | Trail building (a continuation of the fall project) Mountain Biking etc. | 15 | Rick | Long term this is going to be great! (think Eco-bike tourism) |
| Allegany | Clean around River Park and River Road to base of “Merton Heart” trail | 6-8 | ??? | Another SBU group will be cleaning Merton Heart Trail (Led by Tom S.) |
Jobs on Campus
| Where | What | Approx how long and how many | Leader | Notes |
| Murphy | -door kickplates -painting -class rooms | 10 (all day) | Ryan? | Not the most exciting but will make school nicer more attractive to new students * Philips head screw drivers * cleaning supplies * paint and brushes |
| Tennis Courts | Putting netting up | 10 (an hour or two) | Sean/Josh Push for Borko | Will work with maintenance |
| Parking lots | Picking up sand, painting lines if weather permits | 15 (probably all day) | Josh/Sean | 5 brooms, 5 shovels, paint, and a liner (chalk lines) |
| Trails | East of three mile Creek
West of three mile creek (stations of the cross etc)
Clean “station of cross trails” | 15-20 | Jerry | It will be marked, cut underbrush etc. * rakes, clippers, few bow saws, etc
Need chain saw Cut downed trees, pile wood on side of grass * garbage bags |
| Athletics Field maintenance | Painting softball dugouts and maintenance building, rugby goal posts, picking up bottles, fixing benches, | 5-8 | Scott | Old soccer goals that are in tall grass must be hauled to near dumpster on W side of baseball field *Softball game until 2ish |
| Grotto | “clean up” Scrape moss
| 6-8 a couple of hours | Br Ed./Julie Cotton? | Rakes, hoes, garbage bags. |
See, doesn't it look fun?!?!?!? :)
Clothing
I highly recommend all who come wear boots and clothes that they do not mind getting dirty/wet and work gloves!
If any of you have tools (rakes, shovels, clippers etc) that you would like to donate, please email us and we can arrange a pick-up.
Also we would love to have cookies, brownies, water etc donations so if you can not make it but want to help, you can!
We still need more leaders so if you want to help, please email us or get in touch with me or any of the leaders through this BonaResponds@sbu.edu account.
Remember, the key however is to come on out and help! Even if for only part of the day...you will be glad you did!
thanks!
jim
also check out the new videos that are online (http://www.BonaResponds.org)
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