Green Lawn Service Project Opportunities
BIRDERS BREAKFAST
Each spring, Green Lawn Cemetery hosts a breakfast for the people who come out to look for birds. Volunteers help obtain food and utensils for this annual project, set up the breakfast tables, greet visitors, provide directions for them upon request. The Birders Breakfast are typically held in May of each year..
OFFICE PROJECTS
Volunteers sort through newspaper clippings and other materials gathered over the years and file for use in current programs and projects; enter interment records into a computer database; enter information about the trees into a computer database; maintain a publicity notebook; scan section books into the computer; repair section books or copy and assemble new books.
GENEALOGY ASSISTANCE
Call the Green Lawn Volunteer Coordinator weekly to see if any requests have been received in the mail to look up where people are buried. If such requests have been received, go to Green Lawn, look up the interment records and compile for a staff member to mail out.
BIRDING ACTIVITY
Volunteers maintain the kiosk at the west end of the pond with interesting articles and information related to the cemetery, birding, and other wildlife. Build, install, and maintain birdhouses.
HORTICULTURE
Volunteers maintain flower beds and perennial beds at the Cremation Garden, Old Garden, New Garden, Chapel Mausoleum, Office, and Section 124 road. Plant and maintain flowers in vases and urns that are no longer maintained by original lot owners or their families. Several of these are located throughout the cemetery. Remove undesirable brush at various locations.
CLEAN UP
Volunteers are welcome to clear trash from both sides of Brown Road fence and around the north corner of the fence where trash blows in from the shopping center; clear away downed limbs and pile them along roads for Green Lawn staff to remove; sweep grass from monuments after workers mow.
MONUMENTS AND MARKERS
Volunteers cut sod to expose edges of veteran's markers in military sections; assist Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War in cleaning veteran's monuments and markers.
GROUP PROJECTS
Many tasks that volunteers can perform can be done by groups rather than individuals. Among them are:
- Straightening bars on iron fence along Brown Road, wire brush and wash to prepare for painting and painting the fence.
- Building a wheelchair ramp for the Huntington Chapel.
PUBLIC RELATIONS
Volunteers assist in presentations at community groups such as church groups, historical societies, senior centers. They also assist in developing tours through the cemetery, using information collected for the first Saturday programs, and assist in drawing up tour routes and walking tours.
SPECIAL PROJECTS
Green Lawn participates in Make a Difference Day in October and Hands Together Day in May. Groups and individuals are welcome to come out to Green Lawn to participate in a variety of activities, those listed above or on a project drawn up by the individual participant or group.
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