Painting Benches for Pleasant Hill Community Service Day

Many of you know that I'm active with the City of Pleasant Hill on the Civic Action Commission. Sounds loftier than it is--well, maybe not--anyway, it involves sponsoring the Concerts by the Lake Summer Series and now this all-city Service Day in September. This is the second year we've had it, and it has been a fantastic success. We get organizations to come up with projects that they couldn't do without help and then we get citizens to volunteer their time for a day. The Lion's club makes a big pancake breakfast and various Pizza places around the city make lunches. Our commission goes around delivering the pizzas to the groups of volunteers!

Last year Penelope helped me deliver pizzas, but this year she wanted to help serve. She heard about painting projects and decided she wanted to paint. One of the projects was to paint the bus benches for the County Connection buses at each shelter along the routes. They actually didn't get a lot of volunteers for the project, so Family Brown came in and took on our own bench. It was great fun, and the girls were so dedicated! Penelope and I actually went on to paint the gazebo back at City Hall as well.

So thanks to all volunteers and hooray for the City of Pleasant Hill and the Civic Action Commission for a job well done! As we say at the CAC, Less Talk, More Action!

Watch the transformation of our bench. . .

Sanding the bench to get it ready to paint


Even Millie gets into the action of sanding it down


Now comes the fun part!


Dad gives Penelope tips on painting her bench


P and me in our Service Day shirts--like my little green Civic Action Commission pin? That means I'm official.


Family Brown's Bench on Oak Park Road at the Safeway! After it dries, come on and sit for a spell.