Landon Avenue, on Syracuse’s South Side, turned into a construction zone this morning when teams of volunteers swept in to do major repairs and landscaping up and down the street. They were there for “Block Blitz,” an annual effort organized by the nonprofit housing agency Home HeadQuarters. It recruits volunteers who donate time, money and materials to make an...
Landon Avenue, on Syracuse’s South Side, turned into a construction zone this morning when teams of volunteers swept in to do major repairs and landscaping up and down the street.
They were there for “Block Blitz,” an annual effort organized by the nonprofit housing agency Home HeadQuarters. It recruits volunteers who donate time, money and materials to make an impact in select sections of the city. Today volunteers are working, at times in the rain, on the Near West Side, too.
The agency expects more than 100 to help out, but turnout was a little light this morning on Landon and nearby Kennedy Street, maybe because of the rain, Home HeadQuarters staff person Karen Schroeder said. She expects more volunteers to arrive this afternoon.
Volunteers braved the rain this morning on Landon Avenue to perform major repairs and landscaping during the annual "Block Blitz" organized by Home HeadQuarters, John Richey, from St. Andrew's United Methodist Church in Edgewater, Maryland, brings a board to 102 Landon Ave. It will become part of a new porch.
Teens from the Onondaga Earth Corps were on the job early at Landon Street, digging, planting and waiting for 10 trees to arrive to plant them, too. And a big group from St. Andrew’s United Methodist Church, in Edgewater, Maryland, was there rebuilding porches and putting up a new storage shed.
Read the full story Friday in The Post-Standard.
Contact Maureen Nolan at 470-2185 or mnolan@syracuse.com.