January 2009

RUBARB Bikes, N. Rampart Community Center, and War Veterans Home

Members heading to RUBARB for our second year of service with the organization. They began the day helping to man the RUBARB Bike Shop out reach booth at the Sankofa Marketplace and then headed back to the shop to help local children fix flat tires, clean up the shop, and complete a variety of other projects. On January 17th, several AmeriCorps members ventured to the North Rampart Community Center for a day of service honoring Dr. Martin Luther King. Literacy*AmeriCorps has served this site for three years in a row now.Previous projects have included clearing the gymnasium of several years of back files and painting the gym and stairwells.This year we tackled the gym and its store room once again.By early afternoon, the storage room looked like a completely. In addition, on Martin Luther King Day, January 19, 2009 the River Parishes members of our Literacy AmeriCorps Group, participated in a service project at the Southeast LA War Veterans Home in Reserve. They typed the minutes of the last resident newsletter with guidance from Jerry Hardin, secretary for VA Council Board of the War Veterans Association, organized the supply closet and took down Christmas ornaments and redecorated the Christmas tree to adorn it with the Mardi Gras’ colors.They went back to volunteer, preparing a stage area for the Talent Contest.Complete with the sky, stars and actual toy model planes build by the Veterans themselves.