Jeffrey's Eagle Project!

For his Eagle Leadership Service Project Jeffrey chose to have permanent signs made for the Stake Relief Society's "Gifts From the Heart" annual clothing exchange. Every fall the Relief Society hosts a giant clothing exchange in the cultural hall of the Stake Center. Clothing and household items are dropped off at the Stake Center the night before the event, and then volunteers sort and categorize the donations, hanging them on racks and arranging them on tables. Up until now, the signs to identify clothing categories have been borrowed from a neighboring stake. With the completion of Jeffrey's project, the Stake Relief Society is now self-sufficient.

Jeffrey has been planning and implementing his project since March of this year. After getting his project approved, fund-raising, buying and gathering materials, and getting volunteers to do the work, he finally got the project completed on Saturday, June 6th, and Saturday, June 13th.

The first work day was held at the Prymak's house. Brother Prymak cut boards and pipes to the proper sizes, and did sanding and drilling. Some people cleaned the red lettering off of the PVC pipe with acetone, then washed the pipes with soapy water to get the acetone off before it melted the plastic. Others primed and painted the wooden bases for the signs.

On the second work day, which was held at the Church building, lots of people turned out to put the lettering on the corrugated plastic signs that had been prepared by other volunteers during the week. Some men and boys used 2" and 1" white reflective tape to created large exterior signs designed to guide people through the drop-off process when bringing donations to the church. Others used self-adhesive black lettering to make the interior signs for categorizing the clothing and other items that are donated. We were all thrilled that the signs were completely finished after only three hours of work!

Several weeks later Jeffrey put all the signs together for the Stake Relief Society Presidency and officially turned them over to them. The Presidency was really pleased with the finished product and grateful to Jeffrey for getting the signs made.