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North Mar Church took part in various projects including making  87 water bottte care packages for police. From left are Troyia Woods of Warren and Sincere Elliott of Maryland. 102216...R DIFF DAY 4...Warren...10-22-16... Volunteers Kiisha, left, and William Sanders of Warren, members of Team Sanders, enjoys their lunch at the Volunteer picnic at the Amp...by R. Michael Semple American Association of University Women delivered baby items to Bella Women's Center in Howland.  Jennifer Soloman and Linda Woodford help sort clothing for babies. 102216...R DIFF DAY 11...Warren...10-22-16... Karen Margala of Cortland, a Warren Jr. Women's League member, rolls paint on the walls at Valley Counseling as part of the Ethan Swift Memorial Fund project...by R. Michael Semple Niles firefighter Lou Viglio, left, transfers the pies, cookies and chili Central Park Apartment residents, like Patricia Westerman, right, made for the local fire and police departments. Westerman said she baked six pies Ã' including blueberry, apple and blackberry Ã' three for the police and three for firefighters.  The residents spent Saturday morning baking and cooking, and the Viglio arrived in the afternoon to pick up the goodies to deliver to the rest of the departments. 102216...R DIFF DAY 1...Warren...10-22-16... 2016 Make A Difference Day group photo at the Amp... by R. Michel Semple 102216...R DIFF DAY 5...Warren...10-22-16... Khyiema Poole, 10, of Warren, member of Warren Girl Scout Troop 80259 which cleaned up litter, enjoys a hot dog at the Volunteer picnic at the Amp...by R. Michael Semple 102216...R DIFF DAY 9...Warren...10-22-16... Make A Difference volunteers and long-time Girl Scout Troop Leaders Julia Redd, left, 54 years as a Leader and Agnes Bryant, 60 years as a Leader, both of Warren and attending the Volunteer picnic at the Amp...by R. Michael Semple Gianna Jones of Warren and Aelaide White of Howland  both with Girl Scout Troop 598 places blankets and others items in a vehicle to deliver to Emmanuel Lutheran Church Closet in Warren. Katie Grexa, 10, a member of Girl Scout Troop 8009 of Hartford, left, sews a a piece of fabric for a quit. She is getting assistance from Vera Orosz of Quilts From the Heart. A few Girl Scouts volunteered their time Saturday to help members of Quilts From the Heart, based out of Niles United Methodist Church, with their Make A Difference Day project. The quilts and lab robes will then be donated to local hospitals and nursing homes.

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The Warren G. Harding Delphi Elite Robotics team participated in Make a Difference Day by collecting trash and beautifying Woodland Ave., including along a railroad and on a bike path.  From left to right, front: Kathy Woods, Marcia Gregory, Zachary Hilliard, Eugene Mach, Alexander Richards. Back: Zach Cowher, Tom Yuricek, Joe Homa, Tom Yuricek Jr. Love of Bikes volunteers Sabrina Heckman, 6, Ryha Willis, 9, Sarah Herko, 10, and Linda Heckman, all of Warren, spent time cleaning Perkins Park.

Make A Difference Day projects

• American Association of University Women Trumbull County Chapter had 13 volunteers doing yard work at the Bella Women’s Center in Warren. They also held a collection of baby clothes and diapers that they sorted that day for the Center.

• Central City Neighborhood Association had 12 volunteers who cleaned up the Central City Unity Garden at the corner of Washington and Mercer streets in Warren, including cleaning out raised beds for next year, filling with soil, separating perennials, and repairing a fence and rock walls around the garden.

• Approximately 50 Central Park Apartments residents baked six pies, dozens of cookies and several batches of chili for Niles police officers and firefighters or donated money for the food.

• A dozen volunteers from Community Concerned Citizens II served lunch for 23 and played games like bingo with residents at Tod’s Crossing senior complex. Lunches also were delivered to shut-ins.

• Cortland Rotary Club had 20 Rotarians who collected 250 bags of clothes for the Warren Family Mission, as well as 10 to 12 baskets of food. Also helping were six to eight students from Lakeview Elementary School.

• Domestic Sewing Center, 2011 Youngstown Road SE, Warren, collected 100 to 125 crocheted or quilted blankets for patients at Akron Children’s Hospital on behalf of Blankets of Love.

• For the Love of Bikes had 12 volunteers who filled seven, 60-gallon trash bags while cleaning up the riverwalk by the Warren Community Amphitheatre.

• Girl Scout Troop 598 had 20 volunteers make 143 blankets for the homeless during the month to help Warren’s needy through the Emmanuel Lutheran Coast Closet.

• Girl Scout Service Unit 807 collected more than 600 personal hygiene items that were distributed through Emmanuel Lutheran Church in Warren and collected 400 food items for the SCOPE Center, with more to be collected in November.

• Girl Scout Troop 80324 of the Second Baptist Church had 20 girls collect 20 bags containing items like mints, tissues, throat lozenges, lotion and chapsick that will be delivered to Akron Children’s Hospital for children undergoing chemotherapy.

• Girl Scout Troops 80259 and 80865 had 22 volunteers who cleaned the trail between Belmont and Vine, then went to the library and made 35 cards for veterans and collected items for Someplace Safe.

• Girl Scout Service Unit 825 had 25 to 30 girls clean up the pathway at Vine and Olive streets in Warren and cleaned up the bike trail from Charles Street NE to the Woodland Avenue train trestle. They had roughly 10 bags of trash. They also made 60 cards for Veterans Day.

• Grace United Methodist Church’s AWANA group collected 50 pounds of snack foods such as fruit snacks, granola bars and crackers for children at Someplace Safe.

• Guardian Angels of Trumbull County Probate Court held a Packard party at the National Packard Museum for about 75 residents of area nursing homes.

• Kelly Hall and several others planned to do yard work for elderly residents in Warren.

• Susan Helsel asked people to make Veterans Day cards for local veterans to take to the Veterans Service Commission in Warren. She received 20 cards.

• Healthy Youth Promoting Excellence (HYPE) and the Southeast Side Community Association and their 30 volunteers collected 15 to 20 bookbags of hygiene products, socks and underwear for homeless people served by Catholic Charities and the Veterans Administration hospital in Cleveland.

• The Historic Perkins Homestead Association cleaned up and winterized the Perkins Park rose garden.

• Five members of the Howland High School Interact Club helped the Howland Rotary Club with prepping the Rotary Pavilion in Howland Township Park for future repairs. The volunteers spent the afternoon pulling more than 1,000 staples from the tables and pavilion ceiling. The Rotary Club will then return to pressure wash and paint.

• Eight members of the Howland High School National Honor Society repainted the pavilion in Bolindale-DeForest Area Park.

• The JFK Alumni Association and students from the class of 2028 collected non-perishable food for the Trumbull Mobile Meals food pantry.

• Neighborhood Pride had 14 volunteers who cleaned neighborhood properties in Warren Township, as well as collected a truckload and a half of old car parts that were hauled away.

• Niles Community Services and Niles Key Club members collected more than 300 bags of food for the NCS food pantry.

• The Northeast Neighborhood Group had four volunteers clean the bike trail and helped a family landscape their yard at the corner of Woodland and Laird.

• Northwest Neighborhood Association had five people collect enough food to fill the trunk of a car and the back of a pickup truck for the pantry at Grace United Methodist Church.

• North Mar Church in Warren completed the following projects, using more than 200 volunteers:

1. Partnered with Trumbull Neighborhood Partnership to do minor home repairs.

2. Provided child care while parents got haircuts and had their car oil changed at the church.

3. Cleaned up the restrooms at Warren gas stations and at Perkins Park and Packard Park in Warren.

4. Helped cook and serve food at the volunteer picnic at the amphitheatre.

5. Baked and delivered cookies to nursing home residents.

6. Hosted a fall harvest party at the Boyd’s Kinsman Home for developmentally disabled adults.

7. Provided haircuts for low-income women and children.

8. Wrote letters to Alliance International mission workers overseas.

9. Prepared and served lunch to church members doing other projects at the church.

10. Assisted with the Mobile Dental Clinic at the church.

11. Mowed yards and raked leaves for elderly church members and others in the community.

12. Visited nursing home residents.

13. Provided oil changes for single mothers and widows.

14. Took photographs at various projects.

15. Made and delivered hand-crafted items to the Warren and Howland police departments.

16. Prayed and visited with residents near the church.

17. Helped with the American Red Cross blood drive.

18. Organized winter coats, hats and gloves for the Warm Up Warren event held in December.

• About 30 musicians from Packard Concert Band ensembles played at various nursing homes. The Packard Band Jazz Group played for the Guardian Angels party at the Packard Museum, the Packard Trombones played at Shepherd of the Valley in Niles, Saxophones by Packard played at Shepherd of the Valley on North River Road and Lake Vista Retirement Community in Cortland, the Packard Woodwind Quintet played at Signature Health Care on North Road and Packard Percussion played at the fall harvest party at the Boyd’s Kinsman Home.

• Pythain Sisters of Liberty Temple 185 donated nail polish kits to Burton Health Care and Community Skilled nursing homes, which is enough for 300 manicures.

• Commissioner Dan Polivka collected items for the annual Families Helping Families Christmas dinner.

• Warren Councilwoman Danielle Polivka hosted a cleanup at Circle Park on Central Parkway.

• Thirty members of Quilts from the Heart with the help of three members of Girl Scout Troop 8009 of Hartford and five volunteers from New Jerusalem Church worked for four hours making 30 blankets, quilts, pillow cases and lap robes for Akron Children’s Hospital at Boardman and St. Joseph’s Warren Hospital as well as local nursing homes.

• Second Harvest Food Bank of the Mahoning Valley had 13 people from Cortland Bank sort, bag and repack food at its warehouse. They also collected 160 pounds of food and collected $2,500.

• Seven Seventeen Credit Union collected $225 in cash and more than 150 grocery items for the Warren Family Mission.

• St. Joseph Hospital Retirees collected food for the Grace United Methodist food pantry.

• St. Mary’s Church in Warren collected approximately 400 items, including food, personal hygiene products and cleaning products for Someplace Safe.

• Team Sanders Inc. and Colbert’s Care spent Saturday and will continue to work every Saturday to fix up a donated home, including  cleaning and painting. The home will be given away to a family that has suffered a major loss as part of the groups’ Project IMPACT home for Christmas. They were assisted by Warren Councilman Eddie Colbert, his wife Amanda and their children, Jayden, 8, and Cameron, 4.

• The Tribune Chronicle sponsored the volunteer picnic at the Warren Community Amphitheatre.

• The Trumbull County Herb Society collected three bags of trash at various herb and rose gardens.

• Trumbull Neighborhood Partnership and Warren G. Harding’s robotics team, Delphi ELITE Team 48, had about 40 volunteers who beautified the bike path along the railroad tracks and Woodland Bike Park. They collected 85 bags and two truckloads of trash.

• Walnut Run Condominiums on Tournament Trail in Cortland collected a pickup truck full of food for the Cortland Area Cares food pantry.

• Warren Family Mission had five volunteers who mowed a yard for an elderly woman on Palmyra Road, built a wheelchair ramp for an elderly woman on Oak Knoll Avenue with $410 worth of lumber donated by Carter Lumber and held a winter coat and blanket distribution, during which 273 people were given blankets, coats, hats, gloves and shoes. The mission also held a fall harvest party for children on Oct. 20.

• Warren G. Harding Key Club helped Julia Wike and Basement Outreach Ministries collect and distribute food to the needy and homeless in Warren.

• Warren Junior Women’s League helped paint a children’s therapy and trauma room at Valley Counseling Services. The renovation project was sponsored by the Ethan Swift Memorial Fund.

• Warren Junior Women’s League Juniorettes cleaned kennels, walked dogs and collected items for the animals at the Trumbull County Dog Pound.

• Warren Neighborhood Initiative had 15 volunteers clean out the shelter house at Quinby Park off Austin Avenue SW, in preperation for reopening to the public.

• Warren 6th Ward volunteers, led by Councilwoman Cheryl Saffold, placed trash receptacles around the ward. The receptacles were purchased with a “Building a Better Warren” mini grant.

• Wildare United Methodist Church Outreach provided money and laundry soap to do 100 loads of laundry for people in need at Mayfair Laundromat on Elm Road NE.

• Michelle Wolcott and volunteers planned to deliver cookie trays to firefighters and police officers in Warren and also asked people to pray for them.

• Women of the Moose Chapter 113 in Niles had 20 volunteers who collected 35 bags of food for the Niles Community Services food pantry.

 

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