Hundreds of volunteers are needed for a spring cleaning of Jefferson City.
Serve Jeff City 2018 is scheduled for 8 a.m-noon April 21.
The seventh-annual event — a partnership among the United Way of Central Missouri; Jefferson City Parks, Recreation and Forestry Department; the Jefferson City YMCA and other community organizations — has numerous projects organizers hope to complete.
Volunteers will plant river oats and other native plants along Wears Creek in Washington Park. They can assist with cleanup at Binder Lake, Binder Park Trail or Frog Hollow Mountain Bike Trails. There are neighborhoods and miles of streets and highways needing attention, according to the Serve Jeff City website.
Volunteers are needed to tend to on-site landscaping at the Boys & Girls Club of Jefferson City, wash windows at the Cole County Extension Center, remove a sandbox at Little Explorers Discovery Center, paint at The Salvation Army building and perform many other services.
To see all the services and to volunteer for specific tasks, visit servejeffcity.org.
There are two volunteer registration forms on the site — one for individuals and one for groups. Volunteers are asked to provide names and T-shirt sizes. The deadline to be guaranteed a T-shirt has passed, but shirts will be distributed while supplies last.
The event will begin with a pancake breakfast, hosted by state Sen. Mike Kehoe, at 8 a.m. in the pavilion at McClung Park, 931 McClung Park Drive. Volunteers will begin traveling to their designated sites at 8:45 a.m. and will begin work at 9 a.m. Projects are scheduled to be completed at noon.
Mission JC will take place a little more than a week later on April 29. Mission JC is a morning worship conducted through service, according to the event’s Facebook page.
Area churches — at least 10 this year — band together on the last Sunday of April annually to give back to the city’s communities through various projects. More than 60 projects have been scheduled. Last year, 600-plus people participated in the event.
Volunteers will gather at 8:30 a.m in the center of Capital Mall and will fan out to their selected jobs at 9:30 a.m.
Sign up for particular opportunities to work for the event online at missionjc.org/volunteer.html. Volunteers are encouraged to bring their children.
Opportunities still available early this week included delivering “care packages” to hospitals and emergency personnel, giving meals to jailers, cleaning up roads, doing repairs for elderly city residents, or packing about 20,000 meals to be sent to people around the world.