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Love Ceres takes place this Saturday
Love Ceres 2025
Jaden Stahl and Alexa Romo had a fun time together picking up trash on Fourth Street at last year’s “Love Ceres” event. - photo by JEFF BENZIGER/ Courier file photo

“Love Ceres,” a morning of volunteerism to help out the community, including cleaning things up, is taking place this Saturday, April 25.

There are plenty of jobs to choose from and event organizer Brandy Meyer is hoping for 140 more to join the 60 already signed up.

Volunteers will be asked to show up at the 8 a.m. rally in Whitmore Park. The Ceres Lions Club will cook breakfast burritos to give volunteers a nutritional start to their hours of work. Meyer said informational booths will be offered at the park as well. Plans are to offer fun games before the work starts.

Project work will begin at 9 a.m. at designated locations. Currently there are 12 projects which include:

  • Ceres High School softball field clean-up (18 volunteers needed);
  • Painting of house numbers on curbsides (19 needed).
  • Volunteer photographers at Love Ceres (one volunteer needed);
  • American Legion Memorial Building landscaping (eight volunteers needed);
  • Writing cards of care for military veterans (18 volunteers needed);
  • Writing cards of encouragement for incarcerated youth in Stanislaus County (13 more volunteers sought);
  • Cleaning up “hot spots” in Ceres (15 volunteers needed);
  • Cleaning up downtown Ceres (18 more volunteers needed);
  • Working on a Hungry Caterpillar Garden. Two more volunteers are needed to paint 16 tires, then line them with gardener’s cloth, fill them with soil and plant vegetables for children in various programs to learn about the science of plants and how they grow;
  • Performing yard work for seniors and shut-ins (19 more volunteers needed);
  • Ceres High School table painting (no additional volunteers needed).

Volunteers may sign up for work projects at the Love Ceres website (www.loveceres.com). Anyone with questions may email Brandy Meyer at meyercprandfa@aol.com. Those who pre-register can get a free Love Ceres T-shirt, otherwise they are $5.

She also is inviting non-profit or other groups to set up tables or booths to hand out information.

The Love Ceres website (www.loveceres.com) is where volunteers may sign up for a specific project.