The Rotary Club of Loveland announced an opportunity for anyone inspired to join Rotarians and other Lovelanders in volunteering from 9 a.m.-noon on Saturday, May 16, in the Sweetheart City. The event is part of a global movement known as the Epic Day of Service.
Any local resident passionate about making a real difference in the community is invited to put on their work duds, roll up their sleeves and participate in an important beautification project for the City of Loveland. Volunteers will plant small trees and do basic landscaping work in the Mehaffey Park community orchard that morning—a place where the city invites anyone to pick free fruit to take home. The city will provide all the tools and gloves necessary for the project.
Volunteers can sign up at epicdayofservice.org. Once there, simply click on “Find a Project” and enter Loveland as the location.
EPIC Day of Service Foundation, Inc. is a 501(c)(3) organization powered entirely by passionate Rotarian volunteers. The annual event is a grassroots effort founded just three years ago by two Rotary district governors in Connecticut and Massachusetts. Since then, Epic Day has experienced extraordinary growth, expanding across the Colorado districts in the West and reaching six additional countries internationally.
The mission of the Epic Day is to inspire and create a worldwide simultaneous moment in time that unites Rotary clubs and community members to make a tangible difference in communities around the globe. Jim Epstein, a retired engineering manager and Rotary’s area governor for Loveland is the project champion for the local Epic Day. He worked with the City of Loveland to identify a suitable project for the event.
“This is an opportunity to be part of a global movement that showcases the very best of humanity in action,” he says. “We truly hope this event will ignite a ripple effect of kindness, innovation and lasting change, here in Loveland and wherever this is also happening in the world.”
