Michigan winters can take its toll on even the best landscaping. But Anna’s Kindness volunteers can even the score, sometimes in less than 2 hours.
Our volunteer middle school students and their parents were efficient and effective Saturday afternoon, prettying up Peace Neighborhood Center’s gardens with a spring cleaning blitz. Peace provides year-round programming and support for area families in need of assistance.
The volunteers pulled weeds, raked leaves, pruned trees and perennials, and picked up loose trash. Once all the gardens were cleaned, they began laying down mulch, bucket after bucket, wheelbarrow after wheelbarrow. What began the day as a mountain of mulch in the Peace parking lot looked more like a molehill by the time our volunteers were done spreading it around the gardens, trees, and shrubbery.
Thanks to our volunteers: Forsythe Middle School’s Becca Van Lent, Page Bazzani, Kate Wolfe, Pavel Hristov, Mia DeBenedet, Clague’s Lakshya Jaiganesh, and Tappan’s Paige Burghardt, Claire Cleland, and Kaia Wong. An extra big thank you to the parents who helped with the project; without you, we would not have accomplished as much as we did. And finally, thank you to Sue, Peace’s master gardener who allowed us to help her team with this terrific spring gardening project.
