2008 Calendar
June
Saturday, June 21st - Oakland Court Cleanup - 10:00am - 1:00pm - Volunteers will assist neighbors of Oakland Court with some maintenance work, including patching the driveway with cement, removing brush from rear yards as well as picking up litter around the area. All necessary supplies will be provided. Volunteers will meet promptly at OPDC's office at 10:00am, then head over to Oakland Court. OPDC's office is located at 235 Atwood Street, and our entrance is in the rear of the building (behind Sorrento's Pizza Roma). Lunch will be provided.
Saturday, June 28th – Cleanup at Dan Marino Field – 10:00am – 1:00pm – Volunteers will be performing a summer cleanup at the Dan Marino Field and Field House on Frazier Street in South Oakland. Volunteers will be assigned various tasks at the field, including picking up litter, painting playground equipment, and planting flowers. Volunteers will meet at Dan Marino Field promptly at 10:00am. Lunch will be provided.
Saturday, July 12th – General Litter Pickup – 10:00am – 12:00pm. Volunteers will perform a general litter pickup of Central/South Oakland by picking up litter and debris on area streets, sidewalks and curb cuts. In addition, volunteers will be responsible for taking down flyers posted on utility poles. Volunteers will meet promptly at OPDC’s office at 10:00am, get their street assignments, and then head out to clean. Lunch will be provided.
Saturday, July 19th – BCI Lot Cleanup – 10:00am – 12:00pm. Volunteers will help to landscape and remove litter from a vacant lot in North Oakland, located at the intersection of N. Craig Street and Bigelow Blvd. Lunch will be provided.
Sunday, July 27th – Lawn Street Greenway Cleanup and Planting Project – 10:00am – 1:00pm. Volunteers will be performing an overall cleanup and maintenance of a greenway area that is on Lawn Street in South Oakland. Volunteers will be picking up litter, pulling weeds as well as planting flowers and other plants, if necessary. We may need one volunteer who knows how to use a weed whacker! In addition, volunteers will be adding another coat of sealer to the wooden benches at the greenway. Volunteers will meet promptly at the project site at 10:00am. Lunch will be provided.
Saturday, August 9th – South Oakland Community Day – All Day Event –Volunteers are needed to help set up for the South Oakland Community Festival from 9:00am-10:30am. Volunteers are also needed throughout the day to help staff various tables and games, restock the food table and call out bingo games. Volunteers should meet at the Dan Marino Field on Frazier Street in South Oakland, between 9am and 9:30am.
Monday, August 11th through Wednesday, August 20th – Dumpster Project – All day, Ongoing throughout the week. Volunteers will be needed to walk through Central and South Oakland to monitor the dumpsters at their 7 locations. More information to follow.
Saturday, August 16th – Flyering for Oakland Furniture Sale and/or Preparation at Storage Facility for OFS - 10:00am – 1:00pm. Volunteers are needed to distribute door knob hangers throughout Oakland to advertise for our Third Annual Oakland Furniture Sale. Volunteers will meet promptly at 10:00am at OPDC’s office. Volunteers may also go to OPDC’s furniture storage site to perform last minute preparations and organizing for the Furniture Sale. More details to follow. Lunch will be provided.
Friday, August 22nd through Sunday, August 24th – The Third Annual Oakland Furniture Sale – 9:00am – 8:00pm each day. We're looking for volunteers, both groups and individuals, to help out for a four-hour shift at least one of the days. Volunteers will be helping with the following tasks: moving furniture, setting up furniture, cleaning furniture, coordinating deliveries, acting as sales associates, handing out food/refreshments, and helping to transport and move furniture as we deliver items to residences in Oakland and surrounding communities. We will have an enterprise truck and van, and provide OPDC drivers for both, to help make any deliveries. We just need extra people to go on the truck and van to get the furniture into and out of the vehicles for delivery. We need volunteers to commit to a 4-hour shift. Most shifts are 9-1, 1-5, and 5-9 on all three days, but we can be flexible with the times. This summer, we hope to collect over 400 items to be sold, all used and recycled, ready to be reused in apartments, houses and dorm rooms throughout Oakland and neighboring communities.
KICO and Adopt-A-Block events are constantly
being updated! Check back for the latest information!
We can customize activities for your
group. If you have a particular day in mind and we do not have an event scheduled,
we can usually organize one for you!
For more information on any calendar events,
please call 412-621-7863 or email Kelly.
