Volunteers Paint Picnic Tables and Spread Mulch at Kimberley Park Elementary

Volunteers paint picnic tables

Volunteers with Calvary Baptist Church work to support Kimberley Park Elementary School throughout the year. During the summer, they take on special projects, and, earlier this month, volunteers spent several days at Kimberley Park doing such things as painting the picnic tables that sit near the pond, painting a mural on a wall in a hallway and putting mulch around trees and other plants.

Last summer, the Calvary volunteers built the pond at Kimberley Park with the support of Jeff Porter, owner of Porter’s Lawn & Landscaping in Clemmons; Triumph Actuation Systems in Clemmons; a Lowe’s Toolbox for Education grant; Belk department store, and Habitat for Humanity of Forsyth County.

Looking at the pond and the area surrounding it, Suzanne Reed, who oversees the Calvary program at Kimberley Park, said, “This is a place of beauty.”

During a previous summer, Calvary volunteers painted a mural in the cafeteria. During the regular school year, Calvary volunteers do such things as organize a monthly meal for members of the staff and a monthly recognition for students who are excelling in one way or another. “I am here year-round,” Reed said. “This is our fifth year….We’re trying to be here for the long haul and be present throughout the year.”

Reed said that Principal Amber Baker knows that “if she needs help, she can give a call.”

The work at Kimberley Park earlier this month was done in coordination with an annual event called Community: Serve in which volunteers from a number of churches undertake projects throughout the community during the same week.