A group of volunteers from the Lowell Bennion Community Service Center’s Monthly Elderly Program helped clean up a program participants yard in September, 2003

NHN took participants on an outing to Red Butte Garden on October 3, 2003!

October 25, 2003 was “National Make A Difference Day.” Volunteers from several community groups (e.g., Lowell Bennion Community Service Center, University of Utah Student Interfaith Council) helped with a “Neighborhood Blitz” to disburse information about NHN throughout our new catchment area.

This past October, twenty seven students and adult supervisors from Rowland Hall-St. Marks High School Ski Academy helped make a difference in one elderly person’s life by painting a second coat on her home and garage and cleaning up her yard!!

Students from Murray High School’s Drill Team happily washed windows and cleaned the inside of the home of one of NHN’s participants this past August.

On Saturday, June 28, 2003, more than 100 youth from the Taylorsville West LDS stake participated in a community service project that assisted 8 Neighbors Helping Neighbors program participants with such activities as yardwork, painting, and house cleaning! Thanks to this wonderful volunteer group who did a terrific job, a huge difference was made in the lives of these seniors in our community!!!

“Neighborhood Blitz” – Student and community volunteers got together in the Fall of 2002 and in the Spring of 2003 to canvas the catchment area of Neighbors Helping Neighbors with program brochures and calendar of events from local senior centers. The “blitz” was an effort to disseminate program information door-to-door throughout the community and promote use of the local senior centers.

Volunteers from the Lowell Bennion Community Services Center’s Monthly Elderly Program helped scrape and paint a house and clean up the yard of one of the participants of Neighbors Helping Neighbors.

Neighbors Helping Neighbors volunteers, staff, and participants go on an outing to the Utah Symphony.

This past June, 30+ Zions bank employees painted one of our lucky program participants home as part of their annual paint-a-thon. Throughout the week they were able to pull off the old warped panels, replace them with new, paint the house, guest house, and storage shed. June 2004 (Before)

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A group of volunteers from Journey at Willow Creek helped clean up a program participants yard in June of 2004

Volunteers from the Salt Lake City Mayor’s Office (including Mayor Rocky Anderson), Americorps, and Rowland Hall– St. Mark’s Upper School participated in a “Neighborhood Blitz” community service project on Martin Luther King, Jr. Day (January 19, 2004) in honor of Dr. King’s vision of service. Volunteers went door-to-door to distribute nearly 2,000 packets of information on NHN and voter registration forms. The group met at the Sorenson Multicultural Center, where Mayor Anderson kicked off the event. News coverage for the event can be viewed here.