A local committee chaired by Rod Moon has announced a Community Day of Service, scheduled for Oneida County for Saturday, September 7 to correspond with the National Day of Service and Remembrance held each year on September 11. Because September 11 is on Wednesday, the committee wanted a day where everyone could have the opportunity to serve.

On Saturday, September 7, it is hoped that all Oneida County residents, young and old, will spend time serving the community. All residents can serve through a food drive that will be conducted for Carol’s Pantry located at the Oneida Crisis Center. Please leave your food donation on your front porch by 7:00 a.m. on Saturday morning for pickup by local scouts and
youth groups. 

You are welcome to sign up for work at a project you choose from the list below through JustServe, or just show up for work at the site between 8:00 a.m. and 12:00 noon on Saturday, September 7. If you can’t be available the full time, you can come anytime during those hours to the site of your choice. If you finish a project before noon, you can go to the Victory Baptist Church and Brian Jeppsen will direct you to another project that needs your help.

Following are the projects scheduled. If you have any questions, you can call or text the contact person for that project:

Food Drive

The Interfaith Council will sort, separate, count, and box items between 9:00 and 10:00 a.m. at The Victory Baptist Church, 448 S. Main Street and deliver them to The Crisis Center (Carol’s Pantry). Carol’s Pantry cannot accept outdated items, but Victory Baptist Church will accept any outdated items. Contact is Toni Werk, 208-766-8091.

Co-op Parking Lot, Bannock Street

Landscape fabric will be laid, and rock spread around the planters and trees. You will need to provide gloves, garden rakes, and shovels. Contact is Joan Hawkins, 208-241-2178.

Cleanup Exit 3 and Exit 13 freeway ramps

Meet at the exit you would like to help clean. You will need to provide gloves. Everything else will be provided. Contact is Rod Moon, 208-766-6707.

Presbyterian Church, on the hill behind Allen Drug, 7 South Main Street

Cleanup tree debris from tree trimming. You will need to provide gloves and rakes. Contact is Toni Werk, 208-766-8091 

Samaria Paint Project

Painting the Blue Goose located at 4430 West 4900 South. You will need to provide paint brushes and gloves. Contact is Luke Waldron, 208-380-3522.

Holbrook, 100 North 100 West in Holbrook

Painting sign at park and other cleanup projects. You will need gloves, paint brushes, and work tools. Contact is Ray Hubbard, 208-766-6996.

Cookes and water will be provided at each site. “Many hands make light work!”

Health & Wellness Fair

In addition to the Day of Service, a Natural Health & Wellness Fair will be held at the Malad City Park Pavilion located at 20 South 100 West from 11:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Experts will provide free workshops and activities regarding health a range of health issues. In addition, Iron Door Smokehouse and Leila’s Lemonade will be on hand to provide food and drink.

September 11, 2001

On September 11, 2001, people came together to help others who were affected by the terrorist attacks in cities and on our nations’ airlines. The National Day of Service and Remembrance was originally founded by the 9/11 nonprofit MyGoodDeed. The National Day of Service and Remembrance later became federally recognized and was adopted on a bipartisan basis by the U.S. Congress in 2009. 

“We wanted to make sure the terrorists didn’t have the last word in forever defining for generations to how America would remember and observe 9/11,” said 9/11 Day and MyGoodDeed co-founder David Paine. “We wanted instead to honor the victims and those who rose in service by keeping alive the spirit of unity and service that arose in the immediate aftermath of the September 11 attacks.”

Please come and help with these local service projects and encourage your children to serve and remember the many who served and lost their lives on September 11, 2001.