Everybody Helps, Everybody Wins on Big Sunday

On Sunday, May 15, over 30 Big Sunday volunteers enabled Rebuilding Together to take major steps in its continuing efforts to renovate a home on Gardner Avenue in Pasadena. Big Sunday organizers brought together volunteers from different socio-economic, racial, and religious backgrounds for 133 community service projects to improve Los Angeles neighborhoods.


House Captains David Battany and Jennifer Nichols led volunteers in painting the exterior of the two-story home, cleaning out bathrooms, removing debris from inside and outside, as well as repairing shingles and siding. The work site is a long-term project for RT Pasadena and the scope and amount of work required to renovate the home requires a heroic effort. In a joint effort with the City of Pasadena to affect repairs, Rebuilding Together’s goal is to make the house safe, warm, and dry so the Preiditis siblings can move out of assisted living and back into their home. The current condition of the home makes the work site the most ambitious remodeling project that RT Pasadena has ever taken on but accomplishing that goal will have far-reaching effects in the community.

Big Sunday is a joint project of Temple Israel of Hollywood with Community Advocates, Inc., organizing volunteers in non-denominational, non-political service projects across Los Angeles. RT Pasadena sends a BIG THANK YOU for the steadfast commitment of House Captains Battany and Nichols, the volunteers, and Big Sunday organizers.

The 2006 Big Sunday will be on Sunday, May 7. If you are interested in volunteering for a Rebuilding Together project that day, please send us an email to rtpasadena@yahoo.com.