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cwald wrote:
I am embarrassed by my remarks.
The yellow jackets really set me off.
please don’t hesitate to call me out if I post things that don’t further the goals of the board.
ack. does this include self-negating apologies…? love you dude – don’t sweat the details…Yeah, love you, friend – and it’s cool. All of us say things we regret at times. Just as an fyi for everyone, the yellow jackets are requested by the multi-organization relief effort to identify people as “sanctioned” volunteers and not looters. There is a lot of fear in some areas when groups of people show up unannounced, especially when there are lots of teenagers in the groups. When the word spreads that the people in the yellow jackets have been approved to be there, people start looking for them and actually calling them over to help.
It’s a very important aspect of relief efforts.
wayfarer wrote:cwald wrote:I am embarrassed by my remarks.
The yellow jackets really set me off.
please don’t hesitate to call me out if I post things that don’t further the goals of the board.
ack. does this include self-negating apologies…? love you dude – don’t sweat the details…Fixed.
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For added detail, this comment is on a site I’m following with details of the relief effort. It is the best explanation of the yellow vests I’ve read, and I boldedthat part I want to highlight: Quote:We went down to Queens from Boston last Saturday, and it was a transforming experience. We wore the yellow vests, and as we walked along the street to a new assignment, people in the houses would call out to us, “Could you help me?”
knowing that we were, indeed, there to help(and we would either stop to help, or take their address to give to the people in charge so that someone could go there the next day). I think that that is the real importance of the vests. We worked hard all day, in several different houses, and exhaustion has never felt so good. I only wish we could go back this weekend again. As a side note, last year my daughter’s ward in New Hampshire wanted to help victims of hurricane Irene, but for some reason the church hadn’t organized volunteers from that area to help, so the members in their ward joined a locally organized effort. They said it was kind of too bad, because they had a big turnout of people from their ward, but the organization didn’t really have things together, so they spent a lot of time standing around, waiting for an assignment or for tools to do the assignment they had been given.
Down in queens, despite over 2,000 volunteers (half in Staten Island, half in Queens) everything was well organized, and we were able to get right to work from the moment we arrived.
The yellow vests actually get in the way a lot, when trying to haul sticks and branches and logs…they get snagged a lot. It is kinda annoying. But it did help when the OSHA inspectors came to the site wondering if they should audit our service company…and then saw the yellow vests and realized we were volunteers and they left us alone.
I was also working with a group from the stake and since I was visiting and not a member of the stake, it did help me identify those in our group.
But I would be naive to think the church doesn’t also realize there is some value in branding the services in the public eye. I just don’t think that reality overshadows the practical uses for the such a thing in an organization. The most important thing is people are showing up and doing necessary service. People are really getting lots of work done…vests or not…service is being given to communities.
Heber you gotta get yourself a yellow T-shirt. Much more functional.
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