2009 Volunteers In Action

December 2009

• Thanks go out to volunteers, Jill Kavanagh, Kelsey Hungerford, David Henry, Jet Wang, Brent Starnes, Anne Marie Ross, Rich Eyler, and the five men from Delta Tau Delta, who showed up to help us move our office materials from Gentry Building to our new location on Providence.
• We appreciate the volunteers for Santa Hotline this year. Thanks go out to Dave Dollens, Jamie McDonald, Bonne McFarland, Ida Shafaie, Avre Holmstrom, Kimberlee Stephens, Sara Zuccarello, Natalie Loftus, Sam Karson, Dan O'Connor, Leslie Howard, Heather Jeter, Micna Lovenz, Martin Andrews, Amanda Schneiders, Stacy Burghardt, Sarah Duffay, Amanda Armfield, Brianna Civella, Julie Dinledine, Emily East, Richard Craghead and the volunteers from Sigma Ro Sigma!
• A thank you goes out o Steven Tidwell for his work on the Blue Bird box project.
• A big thank you to the 52 volunteers who participated in the Bandwidth Testing in early December. Your help was appreciated!
  

October 2009

• Many thanks to the 17 members of the Cosmopolitan Club, 4 members of the CARE MU athletic club, Dave Langer, Scott Houin and Michael Jenn for their hard work planting the new Highway 763 at Prathersville large traffic roundabout. Excellent!
• Thanks go out to City TreeKeepers and guests; Randy Ham, Bill Reniker, Jon Rapp, Teresa Long, Barbara Ball, Cheryl Hardy, Richrd Perkins, Jane Phillips, Robert Bailey, Kirk Henley, Herman Traudes, Leigh Bills, Stephen Matthews, mary Jo Morris, Gina Scavone and guest Ed Scavone. for their planting project at a new park, Eastport, on Saturday, October 3.
• Big thanks to the more than 400 October Hinkson Clean Sweep event volunteers who have been busy cleaning streams throughout the month in our community. Your efforts are appreciated!
• Thanks to the FFA group who planted the Adopt A Spot beautification bed at E. Broadway and Old Highway 63 this month. Great job!
• Thanks go out to Susan McKarns, Lauren Sims, Jaqui Rogers, Nicki Castrianni, Chelse Beck, Krystle Chanel, members or Beta Phi Beta and ABCBE for their help with the annual Kids Duathlon.
• Thanks to the hundreds of volunteers that cleaned the Flat Branch Creek during Hinkson Clean Sweep on October 17, picking up more than a ton of garbage.
• Thanks go out to all the individuals, groups and organizations who volunteered their time at the 2009 Tiger Night of Fun.
  

September 2009

• Thanks to Mirra Greenway for her work on the Bear Creek Trail bluebird boxes.
• Thanks to the folks at Wal*Mart for planting bulbs at Cosmo Park.
• Thanks go out to TreeKeepers; Jon Rapp, Lois Shelton, Gina Scavone and guest Ed Scavone, Richard Leeper, Becky Duzan, Cheryl Hardy, Jacob Kingery, Bob Bailey, Brenda Peculis, Randy Ham, Pam Spencer, Catherine Chmidling, Mary Jo Morris, Barbara Ball, and guest Andrew Scavone and friend for their good works in the tree nursery on September 12 pruning, mulching and building cages.
• Thanks to the 23 volunteer with Junior Leadership Columbia for cleaning up Flat Branch Creek.
• Thanks to the Bienestar Familiar child care volunteers, Pilar Garcia, Lindsey Sherman, Amanda Nittler and Paula Nguyen for their helping hands at this busy September session!
• We thank all the volunteers who helped with the Family Fun Fest ~ Creative Kids event, Lindsay Parsons, Ashley Birch, Stephanie Arnold, Nancy David, Jason Evans, Leslie Kellogg, Ernie and Norma Falloon, Poonam Shukla, Yi Hou, Silky Mehta, Krishna Patel, Kelly Eaton, Sarah Herington, Kathy Smith and Lyndsay Harwood.
• Thanks go out to Michael Jenn for his long weekend help at the 32nd Annual Heritage Festival.
• Thanks to the dozens of Heritage Festival children's area volunteers who spent part of their weekend helping kids enjoy crafts, games and fun!
• Thanks to Amanda Brown's Juvenile Group for their park clean-ups this month.
• Many thanks to the many Greek hands who showed up on MU Greek Service Day to clean up Flat Branch Creek.
• Thanks go out to Katie Stieg and her group for helping on the Chapel Hill planting project and Forum weeding project.

August 2009

• Thanks to volunteers, Amanda Nittler, Paula Nguyen, Lisa Walden and Regan Albertson for their Bienestar Familiar program child care help.
• Thanks to Dakota Rehmes for his help with the Adopt A Spot Beautification program.
• Thanks TreeKeepers for attending the annual Tree Walk and for your project help on the Grindstone Park dog run trail.
• Thanks to Scott Valentine for his help with the Adopt A Spot Beautification program.
• Thank you Amanda Brown's group for your litter pick-up effort in Stephens Lake Park.
• Thanks go out to all the volunteers at this year's Love and Basketball event; Mary and Shane Epping, Jon Rapp and Lane Johnson.
• Thank you Dawn Sherrill for helping Office of Volunteer Services staff with the basement project!
• We thank Sara Coe's MBA MU group for their efforts cleaning the Flat Branch Creek.
• Thanks to the following TreeKeepers for their good work pruning the Grindstone Hinkson trail: Teresa Kight, Jon Rapp, Randy Ham, Jacob Kingery, Pam Spencer, Jane Phillips, Glenn Pickett, Blair Mobley, Herman Traudes, Kathy Bennett, Mary Jo Morris and Barbara Ball.

July 2009

• Thanks to our Bienestar Familiar volunteers, Regan Albertson, Pilar Garcia-Breton, Amanda Nittler, and Noah Myers for their help at the July session.
• We thank Charles Chau, Mike Hosteler, Kevin Guevara, Hannah Underwood, and Keegan Ruebling for their hard work in City parks picking up litter.
• Thanks to Lindsay Parson, Christine Quackenbush, Kristin Re, Poonam Shukla and Jonathan Suter for their help at the Family Fun Fest "Around the World"
• We thank the following TreeKeepers for pruning the trees along the wetlands Bear Creek Trail: Herman Traudes, Bill Reniker, Richard Leeper, Becky Duzan, Clare Melick, Dave Overfelt, Blair Mobley, Angela Belden, Vanessa Melton, Amber Greening, Mary Jo Morris, Jacob Kingery and guest Amy Kingery (and Kibbbles too!)
• Thanks to the 65 volunteers with Columbia Builds Youth for their Flat Branch Stream Cleanup work.
• Thank you Cub Scout Pack 900 for cleaning up Grindstone Park.
• Thanks go out to the Juvenile Group for cleaning up Flat Branch Creek.
• Continued thanks to Mike Hostetler for his work in cleaning up parks and streams in Columbia.
  

June 2009

• Thanks go out to the Office of Cultural Affairs Poster Party Fundraiser volunteers: Laura Brownfield, Jennifer Golden and Ken Greene.
• Thanks to the following volunteers for helping at the National Trail Days program this year at the Martin Luther King MKT trailhead: Park Patrollers; Paul Heine and Christine Wilson; CARP volunteers; Carol Okamura and Jim Schepers; TreeKeepers volunteers: Bill Reniker and Brenda Peculis.
• Our thanks go out to summer park cleanup volunteers Charles Chau, Mike Hosteler, and Sean Dean, who have cleaned up Indian Hills Park, portions of Oakland and Cosmo Park.
• We wish to thank the following volunteers who helped with Stream Extravaganza during the Family Fun Night at Flat Branch Park: Kathy Demirefe-Stith, Leslie Kellogg, Kaylyn Lakebrink, Nicole Lester, Jennifer Mantler, Trang Nguyen and Jonathan Dudley.
• The following CARP (Columbia Aquatic Restoration Project) volunteers showed up on a hot and humid day to work on the Stephens Lake Waterfall and Rain Garden project: Sherrie Brown, Jeff Corrigan, Sue Denny, Greg Leonard, Teressa Litchfield, Ted Litchfield, Kevin Martin, Steve Matthews, Jeff Melick, Vanessa Melton, Ruthie Moccia, Carol Okamura, Kay Palmer, Brenda Peculis, John Reehl, Beill Reniker, Marsha Richins, Jim Schepers, Kenneth Torke and Suzanne Wright.
• Thanks to all the folks who helped at the June 27 Oakland Park tree project: TreeKeepers Bill Reniker, Becky Duzan, Randy Ham, Jane Phillips, Barbara Ball, Matt Bills, Leigh Bills, Keith Brown, Kirk Henley, Clare Melick, Bob Heyn, Jen Micek, Herman Traudes, Mary Jo Morris and Kathy Bennett. Guests: Madelyn Micek and Erik Traudes, Disc Golfers: Mark Ehlert, Mark Jennings, Keith Amerson, Rusty McGrath, Brandon Victor, Jerrad Chaney, Chuck Lairson, Marck Schneider, Karalyn Lowen, and four others.
• Thank you to Sarah Madden for her ongoing work as volunteer writer of the monthly City Source Volunteer of the Month articles.
  

May 2009

• Thanks to the Pitch, Hit and Run volunteers; Christopher Desamero, Matt Gerstner, Scott Houin, Jaika Leach and Gera Parks
• Special thanks to the Mayors Challenge volunteers, many of whom volunteer each year for this event: Rich Eyler, Ava Fajen, Cheryl Hardy, Priya Johnston, Teresa Kgith, Larkellen Krehbiel, Jaika Leach, Erica Lovercamp, Dennie Mannary, Deborah Morris, Amy Pescaglia, Janelle Price, Tisha Shields, Aslhey Sommer, India Williams, Virginia Bzdek, Ernie and Norma Falloon, Dot Grotemeyer, Mandy Manderino, Dela Marshall, Bill and Kris Pauls, Nancy Rezabek, Elliot Rotert, Mary Sloan, Steve Spellman, Laura Sweets, Don Waltman and Laura Wells.
• Thanks to the May Bienesta Familiar volunteers for their child care help: Pilar Garcia, Lyndsay Harwood, Amanda Heisele, Elise Johnson, Megan Jones and Paula Nguyen.
• Our thanks to Erin Burton for helping with Keys to the City.
• Thanks go out to Dustin Grayson and Jessica Monroe for helping at the Flat Branch Moive Night.
• A big thanks to the 35 members of the 4-H Club, led by Theresa Shettlesworth, for cleaning up the park!
• Thank you Caitlyn Walls for your help with Move More/Eat Smart this month/
• We thank Kathy Demirefe-Stith and Poonam Shukla for helping with the annual Children's Bike Safety Challenge.
• Thanks for helping with the first Family Fun Night at Flat Branch Park: Matt Connor, Kathy Demirefe-Stith, Lydia Fierge, David Henry, Leslie Kellogg, Shishan Shi, Poonam Shukla and Kimberly Tufts.
• The following CARP (Columbia Aquatic Restoration Project) helped with the Auburn Hills pond planting/weeding: Katie Carr, Jeff Corrigan, Cheryl Hardy, Lea Langdon, Richard Leeper, Greg Leonard, Teressa and Ted Litchfield, Steve Matthews, Vanessa Melton, Kay Palmer, John Reehl, Bill Reniker, Marsha Richins, Laura Sweets, Katrina Thomas, Emily Tracy-Smith, Pamela Venable and Suzanne Wright.
• A very special thanks to Rich Eyler for his invaluable parks program help.
  

April 2009

• Thanks to the Caring for Columbia MU student volunteers, and the City of Columbia Adopt A Spot Beautification volunteers, for their wonderful help mulching the public landscape beds along Blue Ridge.
• Thanks to Don, Dennie and Phil for mulching the Northwest Rotary beds at Brown Station Road and Blue Ridge.
• Many thanks go out to the volunteers from The Little Sisters of the Gold Rose, and the volunteers from Alpha Phi, Kaitlyn, Deanna, Brea, Britt and Jane, and Grace Schauer for their help on windy Saturday with the Kite Flying Contest at Douglass Park.
• Thanks go out to the following TreeKeepers for your help again this year with the Arbor Day events: Janet & Dennis Dierker, Robert Bailey, Bill Reniker, Chris Eghart, Barba Ball, Lois Shelton, Richard Leeper, Kirk Henley, Evette Nissen, Marsha Fluharty, Leslie Bayer, Alice Reese, Kathy Bennett, Steve Matthes, Jon Rapp, Becky Duzan, Jacob Kingery, Pam Spencer, Blair Mobley, Jody Coats, Kerin Barthel, Sharon Allio and Donna Abney.
• We appreciate the volunteers who helped with Tons of Trucks this year; Little Sisters of the Gold Rose, Tisha Shields and Scott Houin.
• A big thank you goes out to the hundreds of Cleanup Columbia volunteers who showed up on Saturday, April 25 to clean the city streets, parks and trails.

March 2009

• Thanks to Logan Thorp and Brian Kaylor for their service hours to the Office of Volunteer Services.
• Thanks to TreeKeepers, friends, family and the CJCLDS group for their work at Stephens Lake Park to mulch trees and remove honeysuckle on Saturday, March 14.
• Thanks go out to Hank Stoltz, Jon Culver, Anoon O'Brien and member of the Train Club for setting up, tearing down, and attending to the train layouts at the annual Train Show at Paquin Towers.
• Thanks to all the child care volunteers who helped at the March Bienestar Familiar kick-off session; Amanda Heisele, Lyndsay Harwood, Maggie Schneider, Erin Carrillo, Lindsey Sherman and Regina Jeff.
• Thanks to the brave TreeKeepers who planted trees in Kiwanis Park during inclimate weather!

February 2009

• Thanks to our CARPIES, Cheryl Hardy and Brenda Peculis for their wonderful CATV interview about the C.A.R.P. program.
  
• Thanks go out to all the new, and old, TreeKeepers for their help at the Kiwanis Park project on February 7.
  
• Thanks to Charles Chou and TeVon Moody for their service hours to the community.
  
• To the Downtown Optimist Club and to Kerry Braemon, thank you for your invaluable help again this year in helping to distribute computers through the "Home for Computers" program.
  

January 2009

• Thanks go out to all the Adopt A Spot Beautification adopters who participated in the annual meeting at the ARC this year. We appreciate you taking the time to keep up to date with program issues.
  
• Thanks to Caitlyn Walls for her work with the Health Department's Move More Eat Smarth program.
  
• Thanks to Ashley Zeigelmeir for her office help for the Office of Volunteer Services.