Make a Difference Day volunteers doing Wetland Restoration with
Kooskooskie Commons at Fort Walla Walla Park.
Make a Difference Day is a national day of Community Service. Across the country millions of people help complete projects to improve their communities. For more info, check out the Make a Difference Day site. This year we collaborated with Walla Walla High School students and Americorps volunteers for Make a Difference Day and sent 86 volunteers to 12 local organizations.
- BMAC Food Bank - sorting and bagging food from the Realtor's food drive
- Children's Museum - exhibit maintenance and sharing exhibits with kids
- Corps of Engineers - trail repair near Bennington Lake
- Fort Walla Walla Museum - winterizing grounds
- Heart to Heart - promoting World AIDS Day
- Humane Society - walking dogs and petting cats
- Kooskooskie Commons - planting wetland plants and digging up invasive weeds
- Migrant Head Start - painting classroom doors
- Native Plant Society - building compost bins
- Odd Fellows Home - visiting with residents
- Volunteer Chore Services - cleaning the walls of a client's home to be
painted
- YWCA - planting daffodils in remembrance of women who have lost their
lives to domestic violence
