June 5, 2011

Breakfast 9:00 Convocation 9:20 Ice cream Social 3:30

For its 10^thyear anniversary, Mitzvah Day is going green. Please look over the projects list below and decide where you want to help out. So far, we have 15 projects, eight at the temple and seven off-site.

At the temple we have our usual projects including the car wash, caring yarns, cleaning the copy room, the kitchen, and the shed, as well as mulching and planting. In addition, extensive planning has gone into building a Havdallah garden. The children’s mitzvot will be to create container gardens and bird feeders. For these activities there is no need to officially sign up, however sending the project leader a quick email is highly suggested. In addition, if you are planning to garden or knit, please bring gardening tools and needles.

Our off-site projects include painting a few rooms at the House of Hope, preparing and serving food at the Middlesex Transitional Living Center, singing at the Atrium, and sorting at the Lowell Wish Project. New this year, and in the spirit of being green, we are doing lots of cleaning up and gardening. Our new affiliations include the Chelmsford Community Gardens, the Paul Center, and the Ronan McElligott Playground. For these projects it is essential that we know who is coming and that we have enough people to help out, so please, please, please contact the project leader!

To keep our Mitzvah Day (Sunday, June 5) volunteers going, we will be hosting a light breakfast at 9 AM and an ice cream sundae bar at 3:30 PM, free of charge (lunch will also be available for a nominal charge). Please contact Shari Moskowitz (shari.moskowitz@gmail.com or (603) 673-7669 if you can donate one or more of the following items (alternatively, grocery gift cards will also be accepted):

For Breakfast:
(Bagels to be donated by local business)
3 large Cream Cheese tubs
4 gallons of Orange Juice
1 pint Coffee Creamer
½ gallon Milk
1 can regular coffee
1 can decaf coffee
1 box tea
Grapes
Strawberries
Pineapple
Other Bagel toppings

For Ice Cream Sundae bar:
(Ice Cream donated by Sullivan Farms)
4 jars Fudge topping
2 jars Carmel Topping
Strawberries
Blueberries
1 large bag mini M&M candies (no peanuts)
2 bags Mini marshmallows
3 cans Whipped cream
1 bag of granola
1 package of Oreo cookies (crushed)
1 package milk-chocolate chips
Any other nut free topping
There will also be a pizza and salad bar lunch offered, and while it will not be free of charge, the price charged will just cover the cost of providing it

Activity and Location	Project Leader	Description
1.Atrium-2 Technology Drive, Chelmsford A senior housing community that emphasizes a safe and familiar environment for individuals with Alzheimer’s or other forms of memory loss.	Paul Rodman Pnr007@aol.com	Singing with the residents 1:30-2:30 Meet there or meet Paul at the temple meet at 1:15
2.Chelmsford Community Garden (Sunny Meadows) Dirt driveway next to a white house, across from mailboxes numbered 163 and 164	Laura Smith Ltsmith1@comcast.net	Dress to paint and get dirty. Bring old paintbrushes, hammers, and work gloves. Wear hat and sun screen.
3.Congregation Shalom car wash	Mike Apfelberg mapfelberg@aol.com	All proceeds will go towards funding the day and towards a Japanese relief fund. Hours are from 10:00-3:00.
4.Congregation Shalom caring yarns	Janet Dubner dwd@massmed.org Laura Rodman laura0502@alum.bu.edu	Squares for afghans given to members who are ill, hats for newborns. Project will run all day, no age restrictions
5. Congregation Shalom children’s mitzvot	Deborah Morrissey Johndeb92@comcast.net	Container gardens and bird feeders. This program will run from 9:30-11:30
6.Congregation Shalom cleaning the kitchen	Pat Schneider morahpat@aol.com	Three or four volunteers needed to clean coffee pots, empty and clean out cabinets, drawers, and refrigerator 11:00-3:00
7.Congregation Shalom Havdallah Garden	Lauren Denis Idenis@alvirnehs.org	Planting, creating garden markers
8.Congregation Shalom mulching and planting	John Morrissey Johndeb92@comcast.net	9:30 to finish. Please bring wheel barrows, shovels, and gardening tools.
9.Congregation Shalom Sorting	Laura Rodman laura0502@alum.bu.edu	Sorting clothes from the Wish Project at the temple
10.Congregation Shalom Staining picnic tables	John Morrissey Johndeb92@comcast.net	Picnic tables on left side of driveway as entering temple need to be stained.
11. House of Hope 812 Merrimack Street Lowell, MA A shelter that provides a place to live and services to those in need in Lowell.	Adam Sherer seedadrun@yahoo.com	Painting
12.Middlesex Living Transitional Center 209 Merrimack Street Lowell, MA	David Hirschel Josephdavid@msn.com	Preparing and serving lunch. We are all set for this project.
13.Paul Center 39 Concord Road Chelmsford, MA A facility that assists children with disabilities in developing their maximum potential and independence by providing educational and recreational experiences.	Dan Dubner dwd@massmed.org	We will be doing a general cleanup. Jobs include painting, mowing, spreading mulch, cleaning nature trails, replacing broken screens, repairing and staining picnic tables, fixing a fence, putting up a volleyball net.
14.Ronan McElligott Park a Boundless Playground, a fully handicap-accessible playground in Westford, Massachusetts. The playground is located at Edwards Beach 55 Williams Avenue, Westford	Jill DesLauriers jillbar@aol.com	This is the playground that our religious and Hebrew school supported several years. We will be picking up trash, cleaning, sweeping, weeding, mulching
15. The Wish Project 1A Foundry Street Lowell, MA This agency works with 94 agencies and programs in the Merrimack Valley sharing a network of information, goods, labor and trucks. This “Goods Bank” is similar to that of a Food Bank. Work is done all year long to make sure that basic goods are available in one central location to all agencies.	Ellen Eisenhandler sandell60@yahoo.com Deb Singer deb.singer@comcast.net	Volunteers will help sort and put away clothing, home goods, and baby goods, as well as possibly moving some furniture around depending on what kind of group we have and how many volunteers we have. We will meet at the temple and then go from there. Carpooling is appreciated.