Following Winter Storm Juno, an intense blizzard
that brought over two feet of snow to the City on January 27, 2015, staff
from the YouthBuld
Program spread out across the City to help
seniors and people with disabilities clear the piles of snow that blocked
sidewalks and kept cars locked in icy piles along the streets. Organized
as part of a city-wide effort by the Community
Development Agency at Government Center, teams were
assigned to different groups who offered their labor at no charge to
provide assistance at no cost to residents who had called to
request help. "We were glad to give back to the
community," commented YouthBuild Program Manager Carmen Richardi who
oversaw the assignment of more than twenty locations throughout the City.
Click here
for a short 
video of the YouthBuild group in action. Click
here for a Herald News article about the storm. Click
here for photos of a similar effort in 2013.For more
information, contact Carmen
Richardi at YouthBuild at 508-675-1975.
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(Top
row) YouthBuild staff members Tony Almeida and Harold Denfeld wait for
volunteer Natalia Almeida to finish mapping the locations assigned by
Community Development before the crew boards the YouthBuild bus. (Row two)
David Salonis works at clearing a parking space along Division Street.
(Row three) Eric McHugh works with Lisa Schmiedl while Ira Joseph explains
the program to the photographer. (Bottom row) The crew, including Alex
Cabeceiras on the right, poses for a photo before heading off to the next
location. |
