Volunteers gear up for painting blitz

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June 5, 2008

STAFF REPORT The Commercial-News Thu Jun 05, 2008, 10:30 AM CDT

DANVILLE — The HALO Housing Committee set its annual painting blitz for June 14.

The committee, a project of Provena United Samaritans Medical Center Foundation, will paint the homes of individuals who are elderly, disabled and meet income guidelines in cooperation with the city of Danville, Stradeco Inc., Frank’s House of Color and community volunteers,.

Since 1997, HALO volunteers have painted more than 126 homes and several park buildings in Danville, Catlin, Oakwood and Georgetown to beautify and restore pride in neighborhoods.

This project is made possible with the help of hundreds of community volunteers from local businesses, civic and church groups, individuals and vendors.

Each volunteer paint team will be in charge of scraping, priming and painting the first floor of one house. Paint and supplies are provided by HALO Project.

The day starts at 7 a.m. at each paint team’s assigned home and most teams are winding down with the painting and getting busy with the cleanup process by noon.

Community volunteers will paint houses in Ridge Farm, Tilton and Danville this year.

The Southside Nazarene Church team will paint its Tilton home on Friday and the Alcoa team will be leave work June 13 to paint its home.

A total of eight homes will be painted during the 12th Annual HALO Painting Blitz.

There will be 19 teams this year for a total of 228 community volunteers. They are: The Kirk/Cornell Team, Blue Cross Blue Shield Team 1, Blue Cross Blue Shield Team 2, KIK Custom Products, Coldwell Banker Devonshire Realty, Peer Court, Danville Lions Club, First Midwest Bank, Olivet Nazarene Church, AMBUCS, Alcoa, Provena USMC, Faith In Action, Sunrise Rotary, Walgreen Accounting Center, Noon Kiwanis, Cellular One, Southside Nazarene Church, Citizen’s Police Academy Alumni As-sociation and several community individuals.

The professional painting expenses are being paid by the city of Danville and by a grant HALO receives from the Provena United Samaritans Medical Center Foundation’s event, the Festival of Trees. Several area businesses have also made donations to this year’s painting blitz.

For information, call the HALO office at 442-6587.

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