Lawn-cutters lighten load for troops' families DesMoinesRegister.com (blog)
His take care of heard about GreenCare for Troops, a program that pairs volunteer sod-cutters with the families of U.S. soldiers headed abroad. She found the program’s website and signed the next of kin up.
Megan Hawley was skeptical. “I kindness, ‘Oh, there’s never current to be a volunteer here in Newton,’ ” she said.
But there already was.
Chad Machin, co-possessor of P&B Lawn & Landscape, had stumbled across a point out of the program several months earlier while he was looking at a website for landscapers. He mentioned it to his topic partner, Mike Bird, who agreed that it sounded like a intimate idea. So they signed up.
They in the course of time received a call from Joy Westenberg, who coordinates the program from Minnesota. Westenberg said she’d accustomed the lawn service’s edition to Megan Hawley, and it would be up to Hawley to ring up them. A half hour later, Hawley called.
At first, she seemed a bit uneasy about seeking let go help, Machin recalled. He understands why proud military families might get that way.
