Crew # 22
14 years old
My favorite part of being in the Community Service Venture Crew is being able to give back to my beautiful community with my friends. Venture Crew allows me to get to know and connect to new and familiar aspects of both my city and its people, and is an extremely meaningful and rewarding experience.

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In the nearby garden, we saw that one of the stone lanterns had been donated by Miles’ family.

In addition to the mundane but necessary garden weeding, one of the tasks that the crew helped to do was to move 2 huge decorative boulders from the delivery truck across the ground and to set them into holes that we dug just to cradle the boulders.  A huge tripod constructed by thick timbers with chains and a chain hoist hung from the apex was set up to raise up the boulders off the delivery truck.  A section of roller conveyor was used like a train car to move the boulder along wooden planks toward the target holes.  Entry by Ken Li

for more info about the Torii Gate, visit http://gardensatlakemerritt.org/the-torii-gate/#commenting

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Thanks to the crew members who dragged themselves out of bed to help out on this painting project, sponsored by Piedmont Montclair Rotary.  After months of work where Rotary sponsored the renovation of this church basement dining hall, the room was ready for the final coat of paint.  The crew had been invited a couple other times to help in the renovation steps, but today the job was to do what our crew does a lot of during our Rebuilding Together Oakland (RTO) projects each Oct & Apr.

Every 5^th Friday, in this space that we helped to renovate today, our Crew teams up with Piedmont Montclair Rotary at the College Ave Presbyterian Church to prepare a Community dinner that feeds around 80 homeless people that queue up hours in advance.  At the end of this month, we expect to be back at this venue, but with the dining room walls and ceiling repaired and just now, freshly painted!

We are actively seeking crew members to lead this upcoming meal on Nov 30: menu selection, buying food, planning the meal, leading the preparation and cooking, serving the guests, cleanup.  If you’re interested, contact one of the Crew Officers or Advisor Ken Li.

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Kathy is shown in high speed performing the “jumping” method of packing.

The Crew’s work team posed at one of our drainage dips.

After the morning’s work, we were treated to burritos donated by Chipotle Mexican Grill and then the sponsor REI gave out water bottles and t-shirts and had a raffle drawing.

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