City clean up

SUGAR CITY, ID – Members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints of the Sugar City Stake have been working with city and school officials to do work needed in the community.

There will be a cleanup service project Wednesday June 29 from 7 to 9 p.m. The Sugar City stake also includes those in the communities of Teton and Newdale, with 9 wards and a single’s branch.

“This service project is the result of responding to the invitation of our Prophet to unite with our communities in doing service,” said Kevin Miyasaki, the first counselor in the Sugar City stake presidency.

Bruce King, a city council board member, said that President Richard Pocock of the Sugar City stake presented this idea to the city council and asked them to find things that they can clean up and service that can be given in the community. King also informed the Sugar City Planning and Zoning committee of the clean up asking for ideas for service saying, “anything is on the table.”

Projects proposed by the planning and zoning committee ranged from cleaning up the bike/walking path, the south side of the football field down to the ball diamonds, filling holes in the road, and helping out widows and elderly in the community with yard work and tree trimming. It was also questioned whether they could help with the cemetery and save their district money by providing labor to fix it up.

“There will be service projects in all three communities that evening,” said Miyasaki. “The youth of our stake will be focused in the schools, and the adults and children in the community projects. At this point the community and school district have been very responsive to our volunteering to assist in whatever they would like us to do.”

It is estimated that they can expect 20 to 40 member from each ward possibly 100 people total.

“We hope to not just involve the members, but have this be a community event,” Miyasaki said.

Brian Howard a resident of Sugar City and a member in the Sugar City seventh ward, and a faculty member of BYU-Idaho communications department, said that he had heard of the service project and would expect to participate on some level but is not sure what he will be doing yet.

“I think it is a good idea. The youth groups do service projects for the community on a regular basis, but the adults far less often,” Howard said. “It will be a good opportunity to give some service to the community as a whole. Large group projects like this don't happen very often.”

Although it is an LDS community no formal organization of refreshment is being provided.