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Community Service
Community Service is one of the Avenues of Service which encourages Rotarians to offer service to their communities. 
 
Service is the very core of Rotary's character. It promotes Rotary's appeal and visibility in the community, and why Rotary continues to thrive.  Rotarians recognize the importance of giving back to the community.  As Rotarians we have the reasonability to find ways to improve the quality of life for those within our communities and to serve the public interest. A wonderful way to invite friends, family and community members to participate in Rotary. Some of the programs that the Rotary Club of Pleasanton has participated in are defined below:
 
Sleep in Heavenly Peace  This was an Area 4 project on March 19, 2022 at the Crosswinds Church property in Livermore.  Sleep in Heavenly Peace is a non-profit organization that provides beds for children who need beds.  They are a nationwide organization and we worked with the Alameda County chapter.  This project involved two teams one at 8am and one at 10:30am working on building the component pieces that are used to make the beds.
 
 
 
 
Goodness Village Mural Project Goodness Village is a 28 tiny home community in Livermore on the Crosswinds Church property.  This project on March 12, 2022 involved painting three murals on trailers within the community.  Professional muralists drew the designs on the trailer and the volunteers did essentially a "paint by numbers" project filling in the appropriate color in each of the outlined sections.  After all the background colors were painted, the muralists filled in the murals with the fine detailed designs.
 
 
 
Rotary Gives Thanks is a program that has historically been done on a Saturday morning in May.  We work with the Senior Center to identify seniors in Pleasanton that need help with spring cleaning chores.  These could be inside or outside their homes.  It could include pruning bushes, raking leaves, cleaning gutters, washing windows, etc.  It can be hard work, but the seniors are very appreciative of our efforts.
 
 
Open Heart Kitchen in conjunction with the Pleasanton Senior Center.  Rotary also gets involved as servers at the Sage Cafe at the Senior Center during their lunches once a month. 
 
 
Seniors Christmas Tea is another annual program.  This is an event that we partner with the Senior Center on in early December.  We escort the Seniors in, pour them tea, serve them cookies, while music is performed and Santa makes an appearance.  The seniors really do enjoy the event and it is filled to capacity.
 
 
Sunflower Hill Gardens in Livermore.  A special program that we were involved in the past year was working with Sunflower Hill.  They are an organization focused on creating places where adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities can live, work, learn and thrive.  Our club helped them with work they were doing in their gardens to make them wheelchair accessible.  Over a several month period, we helped clear the walkways of weeds, lay down plastic barriers and spread decomposed granite.   This was some significant manual labor involved, but it was fun doing this outside during the pandemic while masked up.
 
 
 
Kids Against Hunger in Pleasanton.  We participated with the Pleasanton North Rotary Club in this event for the first time on August 6, 2021.  Production lines work on adding rice, soy, protein powder and vegetables into plastic bags that are weighed, vacuum sealed and then packed in boxes for worldwide distribution to locations in need.  We will be looking to do this again in conjunction with other Rotary Clubs in area 4.