volunteering

If you are looking for a fun way to give back to the community, consider volunteering during the 2018 Arts Alive & Street Painting Festival.

This dynamic festival takes places from noon to 5 p.m. April 28-29 at the Oso Viejo Community Park and neighboring Norman P. Murray Community Center, 24932 Veterans Way.

If you have a passion for the environment and a penchant for giving back, consider volunteering during our annual Inner-Coastal Watershed Clean-Up Day on Saturday, September 16.

The event is from 8 a.m. to noon, with registration at the Oso Creek Trail near the Potocki Center’s lower parking lot at 27301 La Paz Road. Held annually in conjunction with Coastal Clean-Up Day, this event is one of California’s biggest volunteer efforts. Last year in Mission Viejo alone, dedicated volunteers collected about 300 pounds of trash. 

If you have a passion for fun and a penchant for giving back, consider volunteering during the City’s annual Symphony in the Cities and Prelude in the Park event on Saturday, July 22.

Boasting a “Superhero” theme this year, the popular event is from 4 p.m. to 9 p.m. at Oso Viejo Community Park on the Village Green and neighboring community center, 24932 Veterans Way.

The City of Mission Viejo is grateful to the employees at Alcon Laboratories who contacted staff last week looking for a way to give back.

Armed with shovels and community spirit, about 20 company employees spent several hours last Thursday filling up wheel barrows and spreading the recycled wood chips from the slope renovation project on Alicia Parkway along the La Paws Park trails.     

The City of Mission Viejo is seeking volunteers to take part in Orange County’s Point-in-Time Homeless Count and Survey on Saturday, January 28. Donations of essentials and hygiene products that will be distributed to the homeless are also now sought.

The Point-in-Time County and Survey conducts a biennial count to gauge homelessness in our region and what it will take to help connect people to secure housing.