For its second year, community members came together to beautify different parts of Sequim as part of the Sequim Beautiful Day event.

Local churches, businesses and community partners put their efforts on April 21 toward five different projects in Sequim, where volunteers either provided landscaping, renovations, gardening and other services as a community-wide service project.

More than 100 volunteers provided services to the soon-to-be-opening Sequim Innovation Center, Helen Haller Elementary School, Sunbelt Apartments run by Serenity House, Sequim Options School and Serenity House Square.

Sequim Community Church Associate Pastor Rick Dietzman, who helped spearhead the event, said Sequim Beautiful Day had its inaugural day of service in 2017 and was a success again this year.

“It’s been fun to watch it grow,” Dietzman said.

“We wanted to create something together as a service event.”

He said this event is similar to the Beautiful Day community service event that started in Santa Clara County, Calif., in 2004, where he was a pastor at a church that participated in this event.

Dietzman said many of these groups and organizations have worked together before. In the future, Dietzman said, he would like to group this effort with the City of Sequim’s service day event to expand the project further.

Organizations that participated as volunteers in the event included: Sequim Community Church, Dungeness Community Church, Calvary Chapel Sequim, Congregation of YeHoVaH, Habitat for Humanity of Clallam County, Serenity House of Clallam County, D&A Maintenance, Miller Signs, Brady Trucking, Inc./Cascade Bark, The Co-op Farm & Garden, The Home Depot and Peninsula Nursery.

For more information, visit http://sequimbeautifulday.org/.

Savannah Hurdlow, 10, and Anthony McCrorie, 12, help scoop mulch during the Sequim Beautiful Day event at Sunbelt Apartments on April 21. Sequim Gazette photo by Erin Hawkins