Volunteer work will highlight 'Menifee Better Together' event

Hundreds of volunteers are registered and more are needed to participate in the fifth annual "Menifee Better Together" event this Saturday, April 22.

The event has grown tremendously since its inception as a volunteer effort involving church members connected through the Menifee Interfaith Council. Now, individual volunteers as well as those affiliated with organizations throughout the city participate, helping to clean up and improve the homes of local seniors, local parks and more.

"We come out together as a community to help those who need it -- especially the senior community," said Menifee City Council member Lesa Sobek, one of the primary organizers of the event. "It helps to lift the spirits of those in need. We have faith groups, nonprofits and many others participate. Local businesses have come forward to donate time and supplies.

"Together, we truly do make a difference."

Volunteers are asked to meet at 7:30 a.m. Saturday at the Sun City Civic Association facility at 26850 Sun City Blvd. Individuals will be given assignments and sent out to various areas to perform the work, which may include exterior painting, yard work and other required work at about 30 homes of seniors living in the Sun City community.

This portion of Menifee Better Together is called the Senior Home Revitalization program, coordinated by Habitat for Humanity. Volunteers 14 years and up are needed. A companion program of that is the Rancho Ramona Park Mulch Project for those ages 8 and up.

In a new program this year, children ages 2-8 will make flower bowls to be distributed to the homes of seniors. That program has already reached its maximum number of registrants. However, about 40 volunteers ages 8 and up are still needed for a parkway mulch project in the community.

At a separate site, members of the Paloma Valley High School NJROTC battalion will participate in a Quail Valley Clean-up Project at Kabian Park, 28001 Kabian Park Road. Volunteers wishing to work there should be at that site by 8 a.m. Residents may also drop off certain items for recycling at that location (see flier below).

For more details on these events and to register, visit www.justserve.orhttps://www.justserve.org/
  or call the City of Menifee Community Services Department at 951 723-3880.