Hello everyone!
It's almost time!! Our amazing renovation project is nearly complete! Visit our website, www.lions4kids.com and click on the Extreme Makeover photos to see the "before and during" photos!
There are some last minute very important projects we need to accomplish this week if you or someone you know might be able to help please? The two most important:
1. Do you know someone who would be able to set tile countertops for us? There is a small bathroom counter and backsplash (4"x4" tiles) and the kitchen counter (about 30 s.f. total -- 12"x12") and backsplash, with no sink to work around.
2. Someone to lay sheet vinyl in our workroom area is needed late in the week
Then:
We are asking for a crew on Friday to clean and polish our beautiful new space top to bottom before we move.
AND: Our big move is coming up this Saturday! Beginning at 10 a.m. we'll move bins and boxes from the workroom in the old building to the workroom in the new building. Then, after we close our doors to clients at 2 p.m., we'll begin moving clothing and racks. Pickup trucks will be helpful for the latter, but pretty much any conveyance will work for the clothes, bins and boxes!
Even a half hou helps greatly, and your efforts will be most appreciated!
Sincere thanks for ALL the hard work last week to the Connelly family, Mike, Cindy, Chris and Dan who laid our new laminate floors, installed and grouted the bathroom tile floor, reset a couple windows, wrapped up the outside siding and trim, and myriad other details. Ruth and Mari were ever-present doing whatever was needed, as was Clark from Home Depot. Brad Doll reworked his schedule to finish the drywall patching and texturing.
Our new trellis is done except for painting when the weather warms thanks to Eagle Scout candidate Daniel Barrett and his dad Pat. It's a gorgeous addition to our Serenity Garden! Thank you so much!
We'll have cement hard surfaces this week thanks to James from Aggregate Construction and Miles Sand and Gravel; trim and doors will go in starting today thanks to Green Earth Construction; lighting and security equipment will be installed starting Tuesday thanks to Ruben Hernandez of Honor Electric; trim painting is happening thanks to Mark Johnson. We are hopeful that we have the donation of blown insulation for our attic and if so that will be accomplished this week!
So many people have literally dropped everything to work us into their schedules to help finish the project before the end of January. You are angels!!!
Thanks to Miss Jadyn Johnson for cleaning out her closet to benefit Our Kids, as have SO many others. Girl Scout Troop #40878 did a clothing drive to benefit Lions 4 Kids -- THANK YOU! We have a beautiful selection of great clothing to rival any retail outlet!
Our amazing volunteers Iona, April and Kathy visited the Bread of Life and Bonney Lake food banks last Friday to distribute clothing, warm coats, hat, mittens and information about Lions 4 Kids House in an effort to reach more kids and help them feel warm, inside and out!
Senior Projects:
We have three senior high school culminating project kids we are mentoring so far with more to schedule: from Bonney Lake H.S. are Jeff Bowie who will be collecting clothing, and Jessica Jennings who will spearhead a prom wear collection. Buddy Burleson from Sumner is going to do some heavy lifting work in our Serenity Garden. These "Kids Helping Kids" participants are important links in our outreach efforts and SO appreciated! Thank you all!
Proms!
The Prom Project is in the planning stages and we'll soon ask for donations of prom wear and other resources, including Fairy Godmothers and godfathers, to make this event very magical for up to 65 kids from Bonney Lake, Sumner, Orting, White River and Collins high schools. We do respectfully request no donations until after we move, please!
Primping and dress/accessory selection day for all our Cinderellas is Saturday, April 4th. The Cinderfella Fun Day for tux fittings is yet to be scheduled. Three proms are scheduled for Saturday, April 25th with the fourth, Bonney Lake's, on May 29th. (Collins has no event of its own so the kids attend the White River event).
As always, YOU, our incredibly generous and supportive community members are the reason we are able to do what we do to serve hundreds and hundreds of children living in poverty. THANK YOU from them and from me. With a deeply grateful heart, Carol
Carol Wells-Reed
Founder and Director
Lions 4 Kids House
20825 SR 410 East, PMB #198
Bonney Lake WA 98391
Message phone: 253-447-3844
Website: www.lions4kids.com
Email: cwells-reed@hotmail.com
*The Bonney Lake Lions Foundation is a
501(c)3 non-profit organization #38-3753543
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