Change the world

Monday, September 28, 2015

By Jill Bock, Staff

Over 450 people participated from 19 churches in Sikeston's Change the World projects Saturday. Participants spread across the community to connect with and to improve the community. According to organizers during the day-long event, participants volunteered at six nursing homes, demolished a house, repaired homes, built a wheelchair ramp and cleared 17 lots of debris. Also they paid for laundry, shared over 250 dozen cookies with neighborhood families and tilled the community garden. At several locations they were joined by neighborhood residents, who pitched in on projects and by area children played games and enjoyed a picnic, snow cones and face painting.

The Sikeston High School cheerleaders were on hand Saturday, Sept. 26, to cheer on the participants of Change the World. (Jill Bock, Staff)
Volunteers work to clean up a yard on Dorothy Street. (Jill Bock, Staff)
Using a front-end loader a volunteer removes debris from a lot during Saturday's Change the World. (Jill Bock, Staff)

Ron McCormick uses a chainsaw to cut up a tree as a lot is cleared on Dorothy Street. (Jill Bock, Staff)
Change the World participants cleaned up yards to improve Sikeston neighborhoods. (Jill Bock, Staff)
Volunteers watch and video as work begins to tear down a house on Dorothy Street. (Jill Bock, Staff)