 and welcome to the day of caring this is our second annual event we started last year and we've more than doubled the size of it this year thanks to you and all the project sites and our sponsors which is Aurora Health Care United Way and yeah and American orthodontics this event is put on primarily by the Volunteer Center of Sheboygan and we are a program under the direction of the partners for community development Lucio Fuentes here is the head chief of the partners for community development and it's an honor to work with him just a bunch of housekeeping I hope everybody's found their table that designates the project they'll be working on today most of the tables have a team member from the project site that can give you any special directions and answer any questions you may have there's there's food and water here to please help yourself before you take off you might need it for extra energy during the day box lunches will be delivered at around noon so look out for those and what else could what else did I forget to say well the volunteers are wonderful thank you thank you so right now that we've asked the mayor to say a few words he and his wife Sue will be working out the Girl Scout project this morning and we really feel honored to have you here Terry so morning everyone you know this is great too many times Sue and I get to work with volunteers with organizations whether it's fraternal organizations the Lions clubs who optimist those type of groups habitat for humanity but this is really what Sheboygan's all about people caring about each other caring about our community helping out each other and taking a day on a beautiful day like today taking your time and being willing to help the community and help others with whatever we're going to do as you can see I'm in my paint clothes so I'm going to be out painting at the Girl Scout house my wife Sue used to think I was a painter she owns a painting company so she she she used to take me along and make believe that I knew what I was doing and in painting but it's going to be exciting thank you for all being here today and again this is what Sheboygan's all about caring for each other helping each other out have a great day today and let's get out there and get to work thank you Terry thank you one final thing and one final thing to say and then you can take off and have fun for the rest of the day is at three o'clock this afternoon we start having a lot of fun here at the park serving beer and refreshments a pig roast we're going to have music entertainment raffles silent auctions and I'm sure what by the end of the evening we'll have a few people dawdling out by the lake so anyway have a good time and thank you for coming and volunteering you're all great hi this is Nanette Boulevage from WSCS I'm so delighted to be here on the second annual day of caring I am with the two people who are making two among many but two chief people who have put all this together so I'm going to let them introduce themselves Jose yes I'm Jose I want program director partners for community development partners is the organization that it's the umbrella organization for the volunteer center of Sheboygan County okay and Scott and my name is Scott Johnston I'm the program director for the volunteer center and I work kind of ham and egg it with a Jose yeah this is put together with a lot of effort a lot of hours and this is the second annual one so before we go any further tell me what is the purpose of the day of caring well day of caring event is it's as you said it's one once every year event where we look with the the main purpose of the event is to promote volunteerism in our community so we recruit volunteers from different companies and corporations that are in Sheboygan County and we ask them to donate a day of their day or a day of their life to help others in Sheboygan County okay so promoting volunteerism now last year I know you had five sites we had six sites six sites and about 90 volunteers and this year it's more than doubled right we've got 15 sites so it's more than doubled and we have close to 200 volunteers this year oh it's a terrific and we're not just volunteering I mean we'll tell me first of all what kind of work our people doing what are some of the sites and what are the tasks okay well at the Girl Scout offices we have a lot of painting going on which will involve the mayor and his wife Sue and also Maywood there will be picking weeds and cleaning pathways let's see the March the March project yeah the March out in out in El Carleg we're working at the March we're doing some cleanup as well out there moving some rocks that need to be moved we're gonna be at sunny side town houses doing a little bit of gardening as well planting new plants doing some walching the building that partners for community development doing some outside painting as well the White House the White House and that White House they're actually it's a it's a really nice project they're creating a new path for their carriages so as Scott said there's 14 different projects there's four you know different products for it that to fit the interest of all the volunteers that we have this year and everyone has been just wonderful we especially want to thank the collaboration and sponsorship of American orthodontics in Aurora Aurora it's actually our sponsor for the event for the second year in a row in and also the United Way of Sheboygan County they have also been behind us and supporting us on this event and supporting the volunteer center since the beginning of the program and all of in all of our major sponsors have had people on our planning committee since December of last year so they've been very instrumental in helping organize this entire event besides just providing monetary funding. Tell me a bit about the response from the hosts of these sites I was I had the privilege of working with you last year on this event and I remember going to the little old school house and I think the minister a minister was the host and he actually broke down into tears yes so grateful for the workers have you been hearing? I think every one of these sites the leaders at every one of these sites are very grateful and we've not had to really push them to get organized they are ready to work these volunteers they've been very very good and they work hard yes they do and okay final tell me what's going on tonight at the end of all the activities tonight at the end well at three o'clock all the volunteers are gonna finish their projects and then come back here to Kings Park and we're gonna have a celebration of volunteering and the event is also gonna help us raise funds for the Volunteer Center of Sheboygan County so we're gonna have some music free life entertainment we're having the Water Street hot shots playing tonight from 4 to 5 30 and at 6 o'clock from 6 to 8 o'clock we have Benson Clemmie playing we also have a wonderful pig roast that's gonna be grilled by three guys in the grill they're already here they've been here since 6 in the morning these guys are amazing so that's for sale tonight as well we also have raffles and silent oxen items we have almost 25 raffle items and almost 10 silent oxen items so there's a lot to be had there what else is going on well we just have a lot of fun people are having a lot of fun today they're giving back to their communities learning a little bit more about the different organizations that are in the community even us have been learning of new organizations such as the the equine sanctuary out in by keel so or close to Elkar Lake so there's new organizations there that we didn't know of that we're gonna be able to help today with the help of these volunteers that are have come out today and just a word now how's your chance to talk about your website which is so exciting that's a one stop shop for people to find out how to volunteer it's a it's www volunteer sheboygan.com volunteer sheboygan.com even I can remember that yeah and it's a very user-friendly site where people can find out the volunteering opportunities that exist within the county right currently right now there's a over 130 volunteer opportunities posted on the site and people can go in there and find something that fits their needs and interests and talent okay one last question is there gonna be a third annual day of caring of course of course this is going to be our annual event and we hope that every every year it grows more and more and more hopefully we can double again next year double the excitement and double the sides and double the volunteers but yes this is going to be in our annual event and of course the volunteer center is here to stay so we're now able to say and proud to say that sheboygan county has a volunteer center and it's working wonderful okay so remember folks volunteerism isn't just one day it goes on the whole year keeping sheboygan county great go to volunteer sheboygan.com and you will find out how you can help the community thank you okay so here we are at the partner is on 13th in Georgia and I think we have a pretty fairly sizable crew from the Kohler company spending a day here painting the building and what is your name please my name is Luke Zimbrick and what do you do at the Kohler company I'm an engineer I work on bathing products okay and this is your first year of volunteering or did you do it last year this is my first year with the company volunteering how can you do it well it's a nice change of pace it gets me out of the office and and I just get a good feeling from it and especially working with these guys it's just a good time most of us yeah yeah and we are a team yeah and what specifically are you doing here well I'm getting the paint ready to go in the roller pan so we can start painting the the brick surface of the building we're gonna do two colors today and hopefully get about 75% of the building painted for us yeah yeah we got a couple issues to cover first but it'll look pretty good by the end of the day looking forward to it yeah no problem okay we're still at the partners for community development building on 13th in Georgia and we're talking to another Kohler company worker and you are Allison Blake Allison Blake and you're also an engineer yep yeah that's right bathing engineering group it's just a great chance to get out in the community and help take care of our neighborhoods so are you a professional painter by no not at all yeah it might be but it's worth it and it'll look really good when we're done so I know from talking to other color people in previous years the company really does encourage you to do this yeah yeah it's a great chance to get out of the office and do some team building get to know our co-workers a little better while helping the community out so thank you nice to meet you good luck well we're still going through the day of caring and we are at the Wisconsin Naval Shipping Association and we're talking to Larry Hinkelman who is the executive director president of the board right okay all right so and then he is watching all these people tearing up carpet that is hard work I didn't expect them to get this far until noon but really yeah I mean they're gonna start in the middle section and we've had that plan for this afternoon already so I gonna have to come up with other stuff for them to do that's my my biggest plan is to get all of this carpet that's been here forever up because in a couple of months we're planning to have new carpet put down so this would have been the hardest part this is saving us weeks of work and dollars and cents this is going to be the part of the Military Heritage Museum we did have some displays as you can tell we were open for a couple of weeks and then with the dredging we had to close so we probably won't be open until let's say January and that's why we want to get this done so we can do a lot of work on the interior yeah this is fantastic this is a you know just a great group the Aurora healthcare system these are all from Aurora yeah a year ago we were thecipient of about 17 people from different companies moving desks and landscaping and yeah it was it was terrific we're very very happy for this we're still at the Wisconsin Naval Shipping Association and we're talking to Kathy Becker from Aurora what do you do in Aurora I'm the Chief Nurse Officer I think you might have so you are almost done tearing up all this carpeting and you're done much sooner than Larry thought and you just told me a minute ago why why that is well and I think when Larry said we have some work until noon so everyone looked around and said noon that's that's too soon we'll be done at noon and then what so but at Aurora our workers work hard every day and overwork and we get this type of intensity every day they're good workers they're fast workers and they're dedicated and motivated and obviously they're dedicated to their community by coming up in working today so and how nice of Aurora to loan you absolutely Aurora is a very very good partner with the community they really try to make things happen and improve the community so how many are you from Aurora today wow oh I know you have a lot of sites we do I don't know the total number but there is a lot of us and we do this every year it's it's amazing the dedication and are you all in the same department or not no different sites different departments the clinic the hospital were from many different areas facilities clinic there's nurses here there's on and on and on lots of people pts and that's physical therapists yeah so I'm personally willing to work here today well when I I came here a year ago and I am amazed at Cheboygan and the community that is surrounds us it's it's everywhere you go people are friendly kind caring they help each other I come from Milwaukee a big city so this in comparison is amazing I'm very very impressed this is the best-kept secret right up here in Cheboygan I'll tell you that much thank you I'll let you get back to work thank you putting your gloves on they match my shirt I'm ready to go thank you good like well we are in my favorite place because I'm a librarian so I'm just delighted to be here and it's so great that me public library could be part of the day of caring oh yes it's a wonderful opportunity for us we're with Sharon Winkle the director of the library and why is it wonderful for you well we are trying to encourage more people in the community to think about the library when they think about volunteering their time it can really help keep customer service levels yeah where we'd like them to be these can be challenging times in which to achieve that and we think it's a wonderful opportunity for people who might need to volunteer indoors and who enjoy being around books and a lot of other people who also enjoy that same environment opportunities for working with technology as well in libraries and I know a lot of people are interested in that both our customers and people who might be volunteering here so bond what would a volunteer do if she wanted here he wanted to work with technology well for example there'd be an opportunity to show people how to download materials from the overdrive service that we have that includes ebooks and e-audio books many people like some hands-on assistance with that and we do from time to time offer that but we could offer those opportunities more often if we had more people to do it augmented by volunteers in addition to staff members so are you all to listen on the volunteer boydon.com yes we are our volunteer coordinator Pat Miller has made sure that we join that organization and that we get the word out about volunteer opportunities at various websites including our own website so people do want to volunteer for the library they should go to that website or call Pat right or they can check www.meadpubliclibrary.org and look at the volunteer information available there thank you thank you fill at the library and we have four volunteers from the Sheboygan Senior Center who are spending the day shifting books and maybe dusting a few off why don't you tell us for first of all give us your name please Jeff Braver and your volunteer for the Sheboygan Senior Center for the senior center okay and what are you doing actually we're taking these shelves and we're rearranging them so that we can get some of them off the top shelf they found that everything at eye level or in between so you don't have to reach so high it's hard to reach up there so we're shifting them around getting them even and putting them in there and then dusting off the shelf after we had done so you know there's a stereotype about seniors I mean normally most people would think seniors oh you should be receiving you should be on the receiving end of volunteerism but no no not really no we got a group of volunteers down at the senior center that it's an extensive group and we found that to stay active when you when you get to be retirement age and help out the community at the same time I think there's a new shift in attitude and we're enjoying it we have a great time we have a wonderful bunch of people down there and it's a great place to visit a great place to have activity so not enough people know about it that's exactly right I mean the more people that find out about it and all of us down there try to bring as many people in down there as we can and show them what we have and it's a great place you have a variety of things that people can do absolutely you can volunteer for any number of things we just did a project about a couple months ago at the at the rehab center and we did some packaging and package screws and and nuts and bolts for them and we had a great time there were about 10 to 12 of us every week on a Friday and did that for about eight or nine weeks and had a great time and do you like being in the library today I love having the library but yeah you bet all my daughter's a librarian at North Carolina so we're kind of giving back a little bit to her too so okay and maybe you'll see some books you want to take home today well like that too and I'm trying to read her four or five while I go down the line here we are this morning with Pat Miller who is the volunteer coordinator at New Public Library and you're the person responsible for getting the volunteers here today is that right yes yes we're um so pleased that we were you know picked to be in in this program you hit yeah I don't know how that comes about how they pick the programs but but you I know you were involved last year but this year right right my impression is is that every year it changes a little bit you know and so that they're volunteering in the community everywhere okay so we have four people from the Sheboygan senior senate yes their assignment today is to um in sections of our library shipped our books so it's a pretty big job it's physical I think and we've removed some of the books and making room for new ones okay and it's important work that has to be done as he was saying because people can't reach those top shelves so it's good to lower them right and and also to add new books it's so that they don't get too tight and um to make them in order and plus we gave our volunteers dust rags today and this is as Sharon told us a few minutes ago this is becoming increasingly important for public institutions such as libraries because of budget cuts does it really make a difference yes it does yes it does we um you know we have ongoing volunteers here and we have um volunteers who come in just for special projects such as day of caring recently we had the co-work company and their amazing race and hope to have them back again I think that's something that they're going to repeat so we're very happy to be in the day of caring so if someone is interested in volunteering at new public library they can contact you yes or they could go to the website yes it's on our website and the application form is at each of our desks that they can be picked up I can be called um any of them or they can go to the volunteer sheboygan.com website yes yes we are partnered and members of the volunteer um center how many volunteers do you think are involved in the library right now on an ongoing basis right now we have um about 40 okay and your job is to keep them online right and um it's actually a new position here at the library so um you know an attention is also to grow the program okay and and you are a volunteer too I believe right I am so I am I'm you're willing to spend so much time I'm a sheboygan volunteer center volunteer and I've been doing that for about a year and a half and um my specialty in that is to do special events so I've um bartended badly actually people help me they've been very kind and um you know take tickets and money and that sort of thing and registration and so for you day of caring is every day so okay and what is your name please my name is cindy breaker okay hi cindy oh we just met your husband I think yes yes that was my husband you're both volunteering today yes you're both representing the sheboygan senior center right and are you a volunteer active volunteer in other things too yes I volunteer a lot through the center and at the center um I do a lot of help with children's reading uh children that are struggling in the lower grades I try to help them catch up and and why are you doing this a lot of people would say that a senior citizen at this point in your life should be receiving volunteers oh no I believe in giving back to your community to your church to your family to your friends because what goes around comes around you never know when you're going to need help and then those people always come back to you and that's way to put it this is your first day of caring yes this is my first time of doing caring day and I just think it's fabulous I didn't know about it until they told me about it at the center and I just think it's wonderful it just think if every church would have a caring day and help somebody in their congregation who maybe needed their house painted inside or their lawn mode or something so not just organizations but spreading out spreading out right right right yeah the clocks are ticking do you like working in the library yes this is fun I love books so yes yes so this is a great opportunity although I've caught myself uh reading the verbs on the book at that time yes well thank you very much you're welcome okay good life how great that you guys do it where do you work with the children um I have a private tutoring job this summer that I got through the senior center oh you did yes about during the school year I worked two and a half hours a day at Longfellow as a playground cafeteria supervisor yes I was a nurse for 40 years you were I was going to ask what your career was okay and um that it got too much with the lifting and stuff right so there's always things that fit in to that career someplace I mean like working with kids I love kids it's super yeah that's great this is a little precious and there's so many that just need that little bit of extra love the gorgeous children's garden we've got two volunteers here and can I have your names please Jane Jane and Bob Bob and your violin who are you representing today retired folks okay so you're not with one of the employers no you're just here just here and how's your day going so far it's beautiful and what are you doing here picking holes and filling them up planting trees and bushes planting trees and bushes yes and you're with the children's museum okay what is your name I named David Peterman David Peterman and your title you're I'm basically kind of an art director around here but I do maintenance work and the garden gardening of course so sort of wherever they need my help so does this make a difference having volunteers yes absolutely otherwise I have to do all this myself so anytime we can get some volunteers they help it always makes things a little smoother getting things done a little quicker so absolutely more volunteers we can get around here the better above and beyond there's always a need of volunteers not just on the day of caring right right every day we can use volunteers and we do weekend events like broad days coming up and things like that so there's always help needed when we do events we do have to staff people there while we're also somewhere else if someone is interested in volunteering how would they do that oh they would have to contact one of the other staff people within the museum generally Cindy or Jeff Mann the executive director would help them out and they might work in the garden or they might do other things right we have some volunteers inside doing some painting and working on another wall then we have to remove some hands from a few earlier projects so we can get it ready for a new project and why are you willing to spend a whole day out here working you could be lying on a hammock or something it seems like a good thing to do with our time okay I that that's it we uh had bought tickets for the dinner tonight and said well if we're going to go to the dinner we should probably work during the day so so called up and this is where they found for us so you'll be lying the stereotype of senior citizens who are just relaxing you're you're like out there I mean I'm not sure that that's the stereotype I would agree with not anymore okay good that's good okay I'm glad to hear that yeah so you're going to the pig roast and you're looking forward to that yeah that's super sorry word for this right yeah we'll be ready for this big girl you've got sunscreen on I hope well we're out here at the Girl Scout house out on highway 42 we're doing some painting for the day of caring and we have with us Jennifer, Maggie, Crystal, Jessica, Rosa, jewelry, Sue and what group are you folks with a lot of you are from the same area from HSA Bank HSA Bank and Sheboygan yes and Megan you're Maggie you're from uh AmeriCorps oh so we we got a great crew here we're we're about half done with our work already this morning and my wife Sue and I are are happy to be here and this is a great organization so we're going to get back to work I'll fly away I'll fly away when I die I'll do you bye bye my shadow is on this life before you are home where George will never end I'll fly away I'll do you bye bye when I die that's we're very proud to be here we'll be this Friday afternoon before we get into the music let me introduce some of these folks that you might need to know this is George Reynolds and he's going to do all the mandolin chores for you here this afternoon my name is Mike this is Tim Decker he's going to do all the fiddle work for you this afternoon and over here playing the big fiddle the stand-up bass Alan the Doc Mock right there enjoy yourself let's start out with a piece called The Walking Doze this is from Sunhouse Robert Johnson walking blues well back there we appreciate that that makes us play into a piece here called I Know You Right I'm going to start with a little instrumental that I call white fish and kerosene used to play this a lot when I lived up in Dork County and played for the fish boilers as people are enjoying their wine coolers it's a while ago you remember wine coolers don't you it's a little bit fuzzy there good can I get just a little bit more of this one in the monitor here for me Volunteer Center's second annual day of care um it's really really huge and amazing event they had 180 volunteers working from eight o'clock to three o'clock this morning of 14 different locations giving their time and their effort to get the kick back party it up a little bit and celebrate um for doing that also it's a fundraiser I know they've got some rapping and things going on so please take part of that but thank you all for being here and almost all the music you're going to hear tonight with the exception of like two songs it's all original music going through I said I was over the past six years so the next song that we're going to do is actually the very first song that we ever wrote and this is how we got started here and this one's called can you tell me what's up market chain is this how you get now eat the strength or at least buy a good book come back to me