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Members of the Portsmouth community participate in a previous Serve Day at Greenlawn Cemetery.
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PORTSMOUTH Scioto County citizens, along with area churches and their members, will work together on projects and general cleanup within the local community on Saturday, July 10 as part of Serve Day 2021.
Parents, grandparents, and children of all ages are welcome to participate in Serve Day 2021 as part of their or their community church’s Serve Day group.
In recent years, Portsmouth’s Serve Day has seen its’ participants help in general cleanup efforts at Greenlawn Cemetery, Portsmouth-area parks, help build porches on nearby homes, throw parties for children who live in low-income housing developments, offer cosmetic services for patients in nursing homes, volunteer at CRADLE Pregnancy Care Center, and providing dinner for residents of the Alexandria house.
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Tuesday pick-up will be at the Central Christian Church, 1475 N. Washington Ave.
Volunteers with the Connecting Grounds Church and Gathering Friends will provide a meal beginning at 5 p.m. at the pick-up location. Pick-up times for transportation to Crisis Cold Weather Shelters are as follows:
First Unitarian Universalist Pick-up at 6:30 p.m.
East Sunshine Pick-up at 7:30 p.m.
Bus passes will be provided throughout the day at the O’Reilly Center for Hope and during the evening meal for women accessing shelter at Grace United Methodist, which will open at 8:15 p.m.
Plans for Wednesday night are still being worked out. This story will be updated when more information is available.
Most of those cold weather shelters were hosted by churches, and all were staffed by volunteers.
Springfield s cold weather shelters open on nights when the National Weather Service predicts the overnight temperature to dip down to 32 degrees or colder.
The shelters opened on 72 nights this past winter, according to information presented at the Ozarks Alliance to End Homelessness board meeting on Wednesday.
An average of 80 people were served each night the shelters were open, Community Partnership of the Ozarks Continuum of Care Coordinator Amanda Stadler told the board. In February, we saw the highest number of folks served per night, Stadler said, adding that 112 was the nightly average in February.