Worland Stake Relief Society of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has organized several community service projects for this Saturday.

Anyone wanting to serve the community is welcome to assist in any of the projects.

The Worland Stake Relief Society includes women who live in the Big Horn Basin communities of Greybull, Shell, Basin, Manderson, Hyattville, Ten Sleep, Worland, Kirby and Thermopolis.

Each year the Worland Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Stake Relief Society selects a humanitarian relief project and last year they chose to help their fellow neighbors in each of the communities the stake serves - Greybull, Basin, Worland, Ten Sleep and Thermopolis.

Relief Society President Julie Edholm said in previous years the humanitarian projects have usually centered on helping people overseas but last year she and her council wanted to do something closer to home.

“It worked well last year so we decided to do it again and kept it in the same timeframe (mid-November),” she said.

The projects set for this Saturday are as follows:

•Donations for Crisis Prevention and Response Center in Worland will be gathered at The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, 500 Sagebrush Dr., Worland from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m., and in Ten Sleep at the church at 2760 E. US Hwy 16 from 9 to 11 a.m. 

Donations for C.A.R.E.S. (Crisis and Referral Emergency Service) in Basin will be gathered at The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, 400 Hwy 20 South, Basin from 9 a.m. to noon.

Donations can include toiletry items such as diapers and wipes, hygiene products, cleaning products, prepaid fuel cards and Visa cards; used household or furniture items to set up households. Donations that will not be accepted are food, clothing, hotel-sized toiletries and opened hygiene items.

•Donations for Rachel’s Closet at Worland Middle School will also be taken at the Church in Worland. Items needed are boys and girls socks and underwear and sports bras for teen girls, along with shampoo, conditioner and deodorant.

•Donations for children’s masks to be used at East Side Elementary will be taken at the Church in Worland from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Edholm said the kindergarten and first grade students are having a hard time holding on to their masks and remembering to bring them back the next day so the school is having to replenish masks for the students weekly.

She said this is not a one-time donation, donations of children masks can be dropped off at the school anytime during school hours.

•Food Drive. Non-expired, non-perishable food will be sorted at the LDS church in Worland from 9 a.m. to noon. Bags for donations were dropped off at Worland residences on Wednesday. People are asked to fill the bags and leave them on their doorstep Saturday morning. Collection will begin at 9 a.m. All food will go to the Worland Ministerial Food Pantry.

Donations may also be dropped off at the church Saturday morning.

Edholm said volunteers to help sort the donations are welcome during those hours.

•Basin and Greybull youth will be making cards for the residents of Bonnie Bluejacket Memorial Nursing Home.

•Clean up of Gebo Cemetery from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Edholm said people are urged to wear warm clothes and gloves and bring rakes, shovels and trash bags.

•Cords of wood for are being accepted for a family in Greybull whose only source of heat is a wood burning stove. People with donations of wood are asked to text Linda Jolley at 307-921-2459.

Edholm said they are also endorsing those who would like to serve, but might not want to get out to serve online at some of the following sites: 

—Operation Gratitude. https://www.operationgratitude.com/express-your-thanks.../

—Be My Eyes. Bringing sight to blind and low vision people. https://www.bemyeyes.com/

—UN Volunteers. https://www.onlinevolunteering.org/en

“In addition we are encouraging people to reach out and serve their friends and neighbors in some way on the day, as well as supporting the Emergency Preparedness Fair at the Community Center during the day,” Edholm said.