Open Pantry/Food Collection
Stella's Open Pantry is held on the fourth Saturday of every month, helping more than 40 local families get much needed food such as canned goods, boxes and bags of food, as well as vouchers for bread. Pueblo Care and Share and Walmart donate a lot of the food.
If you would like to donate food check out the food collection boxes located within Colorado City and Rye at the Bank of the San Juans, Greenhorn Valley Library, and Valley Market. VFC have a table set up at Valley Market on the first Friday of each month taking canned food. Food is also donated by Saint Aloysius Church, Rye Home United Methodist Church, and generous VFC and community members.
Cardboard Recycling
We recycle cardboard behind Valley Market on the second Saturday of each month from 9:00 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. We do not charge for this service. We help divert 2 to 3 tons of waste from the landfill, sending the compressed cardboard to a facility that uses it to make insulation. Our thanks to Valley Market for allowing us to use their compacter for this very popular community service.
Holiday Gift-giving
VFC provides our volunteers with $40 to spend per child each holiday season for gifts for local families in Pueblo county. Our shopping "elves" meet for our annual potluck and wrapping gathering, which is always a lot of fun! In 2009 (our 1st year) we delivered gifts to 14 children. We now buy gifts for 100+ children every year!
Our busy volunteer “elves” wrapping presents purchased with VFC dollars.
Community Garden
We sponsor and support the Greenhorn Valley Community Garden in Colorado City. During spring, summer and fall, have your very own raised bed garden! Fellow gardeners will water for you when you are gone and there's no way to learn the tricks of the trade better than by gardening with others.
Knit Wits
Highway Clean-up
We pick up trash along the I-25 on and off ramps at Exit 74 (Colorado City/Rye Exit) and a section of Highway 165 along with the Lions Club and Highschool Leo’s.
EASTER CELEBRATION
VFC hosts an annual Easter Egg Hunt the Saturday before Easter weekend. The festivities are open to the community. This year we held it in the fields next to the Susan Kalman Community Center.
Yard Sales
The annual yard sale is scheduled over a weekend in the summer. Each of our sales have been more successful than the one before. This is our major fundraiser. Contact us to donate items; some items we cannot accept.
SUPPORT IN Schools
We help teachers in the classroom at Rye Elementary. We have also helped with school trips and school supplies.
Future home of the Susan Kalman Peaks to Prairie Community Center.
Peaks to prairie community center
VFC purchased the old West Course golf club house in Colorado City in 2018, with the purpose of creating a community center. To learn more go to https://volunteersforcommunity.org/community-center
FRIENDS OF GREENHORN VALLEY TRAILS
Friends of Greenhorn Valley Trails was created in the summer 2020 to help promote the Greenhorn Valley Master Trails Plan and to assist in trail building, maintenance and enhancement. Go to https://volunteersforcommunity.org/friendsoftrails to learn more.
