Chainsaw Masters in Mason, Lewis, and Thurston Counties!

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Volunteer Services (VS), a program with Catholic Community Services, uses volunteer help to meet the requested essential needs of independently living low-income seniors and adults with disabilities throughout Lewis, Mason, and Thurston counties. VS operates two small firewood banks to supply clients who use firewood as a source of heat access to emergency loads of wood during cold months. Part of keeping our firewood banks replete with adequate amounts of firewood to meet client needs, we must continuously plan on harvesting firewood. The program is in need of committed volunteers who have their own chainsaws (and can safely use them!) to help cut up downed trees that are about a foot in circumference at our current harvesting site in Tenino. The wood would ideally be cut into firewood size pieces, particularly because many of the Volunteer Services clients cannot pick up large pieces of wood for health and mobility reasons. The wood could either be left for another volunteer to haul away to a wood bank, or it could be hauled by the volunteer who cut it up to the wood bank when they are finished. The area is beautiful, wood is light and dry, and driving a truck to park next to the patch of woods is accessible. Harvesting wood can happen as a volunteer is available, and times are extremely flexible. Helping cut up wood once a month could make all the difference in keeping our wood banks at a proper capacity to meet client need. Volunteer Services also reimburses volunteers for any mileage to/from a volunteer site, and has an extended liability insurance that all volunteers are covered by through Catholic Community Services.
Give the gift of heat to a senior in need this winter season!