Bryner Pioneer Museum gets a new set of wheels

A wagon flew as part of Jon Banasky’s Boy Scout eagle project. Volunteers hoisted the wagon into the air to bring it to the Bryner Pioneer Museum. The wagon was located in Gordon Creek on the Bryner farm, and to transport it volunteers used a tractor to lift it onto a flatbed trailer. At the museum, they had to squeeze between a guy-wire and a telephone pole to unload it. Simultaneously, Tyler Bird was working on the museum’s new garden for his eagle project. How do people know about service opportunities in Carbon County?
Anyone interested in volunteering for the Bryner Pioneer Museum or other organizations can look on the website, justserve.org. Just Serve connects volunteers with groups (schools, nonprofits, charities, etc) that want help. People interested in volunteering enter their zip code and see projects in their local area.
An organization that needs volunteers can go to the justserve.org web site and fill out a short application to be advertised on the site. The web page states, “At Just Serve, we believe that nothing should get in the way of organizations and volunteers coming together to do good things for the community, so we help make this happen for free.”
Volunteers from anywhere can connect with organizations. “This summer, a family reunion gathered in Price from all over the state. Through Just Serve they were able to contact the Bryner Museum and offer to do a service project there. Over 50 people came to the museum and spent an afternoon scraping down and painting the exterior, replacing window sills and cleaning out a shed where they found many valuable relics in just a few hours,” said Jon Pressett, area coordinator for Just Serve Carbon, Emery and Grand Counties.
Other volunteer opportunities currently advertised on the Carbon County page include the Community Garden, Family Olympics, Circles in Carbon County and the United Way Day of Caring.