Volunteers will help you spruce up

First Baptist Church and Week of Hope would like to help you or someone you know spruce up your home. This summer 100 workers are coming to Newark for seven weeks to serve this community.

People in need are being chosen to partner with us by allowing us to come to your home and lend a hand cleaning basements, garages, windows (yes, we do windows) or almost anything. However, use of ladders are kept to an absolute minimum.

Please feel free to refer a neighbor. After you have been given permission by them, obtain and fill out a referral form and return it to:

First Baptist Church 133 East Miller Street Newark, 14513.

To request a form call: 331.1017.

Volunteers will do:

General cleaning: wash windows, wash walls, wash ceilings, scrub floors, dusting, clean trash cans, clean wall hangings/art, clean light fixtures, polish furniture & woodwork, vacuum upholstered furniture

• Kitchen: oven cleaning, refrigerator cleaning, cleaning behind refrigerators/ovens, organize pantry & cabinet shelves, polish silver/brass, deep clean kitchen pots & pans
• Bathroom: scrub shower/tub, replace toilet seat, wash (or replace) shower curtain, wash rugs/mats, re-caulk seams
• Cooking meals to freeze for easy heating
• Cleaning/organizing a garage or basement
• Minor interior painting
• Playing games with residents
• Read the newspaper each day to a resident with poor eyesight

Outdoors

Take the resident for a walk, pull weeds, cut grass, trim hedges, small trees, and/or bushes, dig out dead plants, add mulch around landscaping, plant bushes, plant flowers, restring clotheslines, install a new screen door, discard piles of unwanted stuff, wash the house, fix/paint a fence, repaint patio furniture, wash screens & windows, clean gutters and downspouts.

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