Community Happenings

July Projects

1. Neighborhood clean up. This  can be as simple as picking up trash when you’re walking to the mailbox or organizing a cleanup day in your neighborhood.
2. Send seeds to a friend or family member.  We will have wildflower & veggie seed packets available for pick up at Dusky Grouse!
3. Plant a tree!  Reach out in person or by phone/email if you need inspiration, resources, or if you have a tree connection!
4. We will be hosting a bike wash & lemonade stand on our side patio (right off the Core Trail) on Saturday, July 30th to benefit Lift Up!  Reach out if your family would be interested in sign waving (directing Core Trail riders to our stand) or bike washing!  Free coffee & lemonade will be provided!

1. Pick up three pieces of trash every time you go to a park or on a walk.
2. Write a “thank you” card to a restaurant worker.
3. Kindness week!  Do one act of kindness every day this week!  Ideas: Do a chore that you don’t usually do, help wash a car, bake cookies for a friend, call your grandma or grandpa to say hi, draw a picture for a parent, etc.  The possibilities are endless!
4. Shoe drive at DGC!  We are collecting new & gently used shoes at Dusky Grouse Coffee & will be donating them to the organization Funds2Orgs (https://funds2orgs.com).  We will be collecting shoes until the end of July!
5.  

1. Teach something you’re good at to a friend or sibling.
2. Share plants or flowers with someone you love (pick up a baby flower at Dusky Grouse Coffee!)
3. Introduce yourself to a new neighbor or one that you don’t know yet!
4. Make a card for a retirement community near you.

1. Earth Day trail clean up: Meet up with us as a group on April 9th at DGC to clean up Fetcher Pond or organize a clean up in your neighborhood
2. Write a letter to a “super hero” in your life.  Why are they amazing? What are their talents?  For example, my sister is my super hero because she is always there for me and makes me laugh.  Her super power is “kindness”.
3. Decorate bandanas for dogs looking for homes at Humane Society.  We will have bandanas for pick up at the shop for this one!
4. Bring chalk to your favorite paved trail or park and draw pictures or write positive messages to brighten peoples day.

1. Hope: Read, Discuss or create drawings or pictures of what Hope means to you
2. Positivity Rocks:  Find some rocks, paint them and write positive messages or words on them.  Place them around town for strangers to find.
3. Write a thank you card to a police officer or tell one “thank you” if you see one.
4. Go through your old books and donate to Lift- Up, the library or host a book exchange with friends.

1. Draw or paint a valentines day card for someone who may be lonely or who is really important to you
2. Thank you card to a teacher or someone at your school.  In addition to teachers, think about your favorite librarian, office administrator, custodian or anyone else your child feels is important to them.  The idea here is to have your child hand the card to them, so they understand the impact they’re having.  And let’s be honest, the art of the thank you card is a lost one!  Let’s keep it alive!
3. Healthy foods to be donated to Lift Up.  You can go through your own pantry and have the kids put together a box or you can go to the store with a small list.  We’ve also talked about donating snacks for LIft Up’s Rocket packs for kids in school.  More details to come!
4. Read a book and/or discuss what diversity and/or race means to your kids.  The library has a wonderful selection of kid-friendly books about MLK, black history month and diversity that we highly recommend!

CALL TO ACTION:  Because of some not-so-kid friendly headlines flying around about war and Eastern Europe, we thought it would be a great idea to talk to our kids about “Hope”.  Ask your kid what HOPE means to them, record it, and send it Steph@duskygrousecoffee.com (or IG/FB dm).  We will be putting together a little collection of small kids simplifying the world’s big issues.  With this we hope to all gain some refreshing perspective and maybe learn a thing or two from our kids.  This should be short and candid, 10-30 seconds, no rehearsal needed!

1. Create a Giving Bank and choose a non profit you’d like to raise money for throughout the year.  Participating Local Non-Profits We will donate our funds together on Yampa Valley Gives Day (December 2022), but if you’d like to raise money for a non-profit outside of our county, please feel free to do so! Pick something that’s important to your kid and your family.
2. Donate to the Boulder Fire (Marshall Fire) Relief efforts.  DONATE
3. Write a thank you card or give a gift to a firefighter.  You can make one for the Boulder Fire or local fire department.  Drop off all cards/gifts at Dusky Grouse and we’ll deliver them all together at the end of the month.
4. Make a bird feeder, faerie/critter home