Unloading Christmas Trees for the Iowa City Optimist Club

The work crew also spent time helping the Iowa City Optimist club unload Christmas trees for their annual fundraiser. This fundraiser helped to raise over $20,000 for the Optimist club last year.

It took both the Johnson and Linn County work crews to unload the semi full of trees. The work crew will be helping to sell and trim the trees up untill Christmas. Stop by and pick up a tree!

Christmas time is here!

The work crew has been creating holiday cheer throughout the Coralville/Iowa City area. The crew recently spent 2 weeks helping the city workers put up Christmas lights along the Coralville strip and 1st Ave.

The work crew will be taking down all of the lights and testing them at the end of the holiday season as well. This is the work crew's 3rd year participating in this project and we are happy to do it!

Hope House got a chance to help with one of the University of Iowa events this summer during Hawkapalooza. The community service work crew was able to listen to a concert from a popular band before clean up started. We are very appreciative for the chance to hear some great music and help the University of Iowa out! Thanks guys!

We have completed many other community service projects since Hawkapalooza. Some of the best were putting up christmas lights for the city of Coralville, unloading trees for the local Optimists club, and completing some much needed landscaping work in the cultural corridor. We are proud to lend what help we can to our community!

Summer of the Arts Jazz Festival (4th of July)

This year the Johnson County Work Crew helped the Summer of the Arts group with the Jazz festival in Iowa City. The Jazz festival encompasses three days of Jazz music on three different stages as well as a plethera of great food and interesting vendors.

During the festival the work crew helped to set up tables and chairs for all of the vendors tents as well as taking care of all of the grabadge, recycling, and compost for the festival. At the end of the three day festival, the community service participants were rewarded with an amazing fireworks show as well as some wonderfully marinated beef cabobs.

The workcrew is proud to say that we acomplished our mission and made Iowa City just a little bit greener with the work that we did at this festival. The following are some pictures taken at Jazz festival.

North Liberty Foodbank

The Johnson County Work Crew Helps HACAP and the North Liberty Food bank once a month. The work crew loads at truck full of food, transport the food from Cedar Rapids to North Liberty, and then unload and organize the food. The following are some pictures of our last food run!

Mayors Youth Empowerment Program BBQ

Today the work crew went to help out at the MYEP BBQ at the old La Casa building in Iowa City. The work crew put in over 1100 hours of work into the building. The guys helped out today by setting up and taking down tables and chairs, cleaning, and setting up some games.

Mayors Youth Dedication

The Mayors Youth Empowerment Program will be dedicating their new building at the corner of Highland Ct. and Gilbert Ct. on Saturday May 1 at 10am. There will be music, food, and fun activities. Community service work crews put in over 1100 hours in the remodeling of MYEP's new home.