You may or may not know this, but this week is National Volunteer Week. To kickoff volunteering me and several other people from work teamed up with the Tempe Town Lake Green-Up Clean-up along with other companies to clean a section of the Tempe Town Lake. We were split into several different teams. Some got to paint, sweep, pick up trash, etc. We got to take out weeds and remove any dead plants. We did this for 4 hours from 7am - 11am.
After the clean-up we had a lunch(hot dogs, chips, water, cookies, etc) and a raffle as a thank you for our help. They had a set of tickets for a salsa event that was going on later that day at the lake and a set of tickets for a 4th of July show. They also gave away volunteer shirts, beach balls, and Rockstar Beverage hats. Forgot to ask someone to take a photo of me and our team together.
It was alot of hard work to pull out weeds and dead plants for almost 4 hours, but it was fun and felt good to do something for the community. Good thing it was a bit breezy. Oh and there was a fried frog. Must have died while back in the scorching Arizona heat.
Interested in volunteering? Don't know where to start? Follow this link! :)
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