“Love Ceres,” a day of volunteer projects to improve the community, will take place on Saturday, April 29, announced organizer Brandy Meyer.

The event will give volunteers a chance to clean up downtown Ceres before it plays host to the Ceres Street Faire the following weekend of May 6-7.

Approximately 10 projects have been lined up “but my goal is 20 projects with over 250 volunteers,” said Meyer. “Last year we had 240 so I don’t it should be a problem having 250.”

Volunteers will be asked to show up at the 8 a.m. rally in Whitmore Park. The Ceres Lions Club has said it will cook breakfast burritos to five 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.

Workers will be offered a free Love Ceres T-shirt being donated by the Pentecostal Church of Ceres.

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

Meyer asked local businesses to provide discounts on April 29 as a way of rewarding any volunteers wearing a Love Ceres T-shirt or sticker who wish to do business with them. 

“We are also looking for sponsors and we are in the process of scheduling fundraisers through our local restaurants at this time,” she said.

The next Love Ceres committee meeting will take place on Thursday at 4 p.m. at Harvest Presbyterian Church, 1813 Moffet Road.

“We are always open to any ideas for projects.”

One new project will include volunteers reading to children at the Ceres Library that morning.

Councilwoman Rosalinda Vierra has offered to organize a work project on the playground at the Ceres Partnership – Center for Human Services located at 1317 Grandview Avenue.