Today the volunteers worked at WestSide Baby. We have worked with WestSide Baby each of the last seven years and each year is a different experience, but always a lot of fun. WestSide Baby is a “nonprofit organization that collects new and used items for children and babies and distributes them free of charge to King County families in need.” In 2017, they served 46,000 children. Today the volunteers were tasked with assembling donated cribs to make sure that all the pieces were there, they tested battery-powered toys to make sure they were in working order, they counted and sorted donated diapers and finally they sorted clothes to check to make sure they were in good condition. It was a great day, and as always, we were very impressed with the organization, the commitment of their volunteers and staff, and all the great work they do in the community.

Check out the slide show of our day’s activities!!

Today we began our 7th annual PV Seattle Week. As seems to always be the case when this week rolls around each year, the sun was shining and it was a beautiful day. (Really, it does rain quite a bit here…) While we don’t have any PVs traveling in from far and wide, we do have 15 local PVs taking part in the week’s activities and we are all excited to get things going!

Our first day of service was working in the kitchen at OSL. OSL (formally Operation Sack Lunch) provides meals to several groups around Seattle as well as for their Outdoor Meal Site. Today we had a hand preparing the 1,600 meals that come out of their kitchen daily. The volunteers chopped onions, crumbled up cheese for a delicious macaroni and cheese that was served for lunch, chopped zucchini and cucumbers, and sorted a prepared herbs that were donated in small prepared packaging. Almost all of the food used to prepare the meals is donated or rescued items. The chefs at OSL would do great being on Chopped as each day they look at what they have to work with and created delicious and healthy meals. If you want to read more about OSL, please check out their website: https://www.oslserves.org/

Please enjoy a video highlighting the wonderful night that we had back on March 23rd in Belmar, NJ supporting the PVs. Thank you again to our wonderful hosts Wayne and Jo!!