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New Shrewsbury Yard Work Program For Seniors Seeks Tools
The YAHOO program coming this fall will use young volunteers to help seniors with yard chores.
SHREWSBURY, MA — The Shrewsbury Council on Aging is looking for volunteers to help local seniors with yard work this fall — but first, they need tools.
The council on aging this week put out a call for tool donations for a new program called Young Adults Helping Out Others, or YAHOO. The program will match young volunteers with seniors who need a hand cleaning up leaves and debris.
To get the program going, the council on aging is asking for:
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- Five lawn rakes with wooden handles
- Five garden rakes with wooden handles
- Five push brooms with wooden handles
- Ten trowels
- Ten pruning sheers
- Ten cultivators
- Seven 10-foot general purpose tarps
- And 30 pairs of adult gardening gloves
The YAHOO program will be open this fall to high school sophomores, juniors and seniors and adult chaperones. Volunteers will work about four hours per day for five weeks in the fall.
Anyone who can donate tools and supplies should contact the council on aging by calling (508) 841-8640.
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