Home is where family is. And for the families living at Alpha House, home is now where the beautiful flowers are.
Anna’s Kindness volunteers spent Saturday afternoon cleaning the grounds and planting dozens of flowers to welcome the homeless families who are temporarily living at Alpha House, as they look forward to more permanent stable housing in the weeks to come.
A dozen volunteers and their parents began by performing a full-scale deep clean on the grounds, raking, removing leaves from the gardens and the fencing, pulling weeds, cutting back dead limbs, picking up trash, and pulling out dead limbs and branches.
Once the grounds were gussied up, the volunteers planted beautiful spring flowers — yellows, whites, pinks, and purples — in the gardens and neglected flower pots. When they were finished, it was like laying out a multicolor floral welcome mat to families as they returned to their temporary home.
Thank you to the parents who helped on this project and their students: Forsythe’s Maddie Clarke, Henry Remington, Kaiwen Smith, Eleanor Fox, Becca and Catherine Van Lent; Clague Middle School’s Eloise Cras and Lakshya Jaiganesh; Tappan’s Hannah Link and Colette Riggs; and Slauson’s Stacy Stamadianos. And a very special thanks to Mark Heffner and Beth Lipton who helped make this opportunity possible for our volunteers.
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