How can your community group help seniors this fall?

Portland Leaf Harvest 2011 — Portland Leaf Harvest (FOT file)

By Brighton West

Are you part of a community group looking for a project?

Friends of Trees would like to invite you to help rake leaves for elderly residents between November 10 and 13. The Portland Leaf Harvest is encouraging individuals and groups to help with fall yard work. Last year, Home Depot volunteers partnered with Friends of Trees and Loaves & Fishes to rake for 30 homebound seniors. This year we want to help enable other groups to do the same thing.

As a group, when you sign up with Friends of Trees through the PortlandLeafHarvest web site, we’ll provide you with leaf bags, tips, and waivers for free leaf disposal at city leaf depots. You just need to find the folks in your community who need your help and rake their leaves.

Interested? Contact Brighton West @ [email protected] to get started, or visit PortlandLeafHarvest.com and click “Join the Harvest.”

–West is Program Director for Friends of Trees.