Penn's Woods Painters

Community Service

 

PENN'S WOODS PAINTERS
1999 COMMUNITY SERVICE
PROJECT

Penn's Woods Painters chose as their 1999 summer comminity project to paint an 83 foot long, 9 feet high mural for Cumberland County Children & Youth Services, in Carlisle, Pennsylvania.  The mural depicts a path traveling through the fours seasons of Winter, Fall, Spring and Summer ending at a home under a rainbow, with a family waiting .

 

The mural, which features patterns by Pat Olson took over 400 painting hours to complete. Twenty-seven volunteers from Penn's Woods Painters dedicated evening and weekend time to complete this labor of love. The paint (and there was a lot needed) was generously donated by Deco-Art.  Donations of supplies were also made by the local businesses of Lowe's hardware, Sherwin Williams Paint, Ben Franklin and Domino's Pizza  (all that painting makes you hungry).

Taking on a challenge this big brought our members closer together, some were even a little sad as we approached completion. An unexpected benifit of this project was that it proved to be a great advertisment for our chapter as it generated both newspaper and television coverage.  Check out below for pictures of the completed mural. Hope you enjoy them as much as we did painting them.