It’s time to make a positive difference in the community by helping neighbors in need of assistance.

Fountain Hills is a community of volunteers, and never more so than for the 16th annual Make a Difference Day, Saturday, Oct. 19. Residents are invited to help the most vulnerable in the community by providing volunteer work service for four hours, at designated interior and exterior projects. The town is seeking assistance from residents to come out and show neighbors that “Fountain Hills is the small town with a big heart.”

For more than three decades, USA Today and Points of Light, the world’s largest organization dedicated to volunteer service, joined together to host the nationwide Make a Difference Day, the largest national day of community service in the country.

Work projects include raking and cleaning up landscaping debris, building exterior wheelchair ramps, minor interior and exterior home repairs, weed control and more.

Volunteers range from Cub and Daisy scouts to active seniors who can provide their help.  All interested individuals are encouraged to participate and register. Those who would like to volunteer for Make a Difference can do so at the town website, fountainhillsaz.gov/madd.  Volunteer registration deadline is Monday, Oct. 14.

“This is a great opportunity to strengthen ties in the community as well as address existing needs. We all can ‘Make a Difference’,” Town of Fountain Hills Volunteer Supervisor Kim Wickland said.

For more information contact Wickland at 480-816-5108 or kwickland@fountainhillsaz.gov.