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LUCERNE, Calif. – The Lucerne Alpine Senior Center has been bustling with more than the usual activity over the past week, as the center’s building gets some tender loving care.
Last week, a group of women who participated in a workshop with PSI Seminars at High Valley Ranch in Clearlake Oaks descended on the building, located at 10th and Country Club, and painted the inside of Barnes Hall, the facility’s main dining room.
Using ladders and scaffolding to reach the room’s high ceilings, volunteers put on a new coat of bright white paint.
Robert Clifton, who became the senior center’s executive director in July, said Habitat for Humanity Lake County donated the paint and some of the equipment.
Clifton said PSI volunteers washed the outside of the building, did gardening work, and renovated the Alpine and Rose rooms – fixing plaster and scrubbing wood and floors – in July.
Last week, in addition to painting Barnes Hall, volunteers cleaned and painted what was once a third grade classroom at one end of the building, which originally had been a school.
That room, which is smaller and more easily heated, will be used as a wintertime dining room, with drapes, artwork and mirrors donated to decorate it, said Clifton.
The room’s blackboards are being refurbished, and local school children will be invited to come in and decorate them with chalk murals at different times of the year, said Clifton.
Other recent work that’s been completed on the building, though not by volunteers, is replacing broken windows and toilets, electrical upgrades, the addition of two feet onto the Barnes Hall stage and the installation of a new coil in the walk-in freezer. He said the center is considering holding a fundraiser to pay off the remaining $3,200 owed on the freezer repairs.
He said Lake County Locksmith donated lock upgrades on the building.
More volunteer work is planned in the months ahead. Clifton said a PSI Seminars men’s group is scheduled to begin painting the building’s exterior in February, and then will work on painting the building’s hallways.
He said there also are plans to restripe the center’s parking and repair its steps.
For information about the center or to make donations for its upkeep, call the center at 707-274-8779.
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