YMCA Mural Painting

YMCA Mural

Why:

YMCA is a community provider making an abundance of services available to a diverse Hilo community through their Family Visitor Center, providing a safe place for parents to receive their keiki, they have a Goodwill drop off box on sight, they provide help for folks trying to get insurance coverage through their Kokua Services, tomorrow’s leaders are created today with in their Junior Leadership Program, they sponsor a Sailing Program, have Day Camps when school is out, TSA Pre Check enrollment office is at their local, and their most popular program is their Fitness Center and offer a plethora of fitness class offerings lead by talented Instructors. The YMCA turns no one away from partaking in any of their fitness classes for inability to pay.

         The YMCA is located at 300 W. Lanikaula St. on a large swath of land with a huge 40 ft container on it used for storage. Wendy Botelho, the CEO of the YMCA was absolutely thrilled at the thought of having the container painted. She loves flowers so that was heavily considered in the design devised for the container.

Because of YMCA diverse reach of people in our Hilo community providing so many good services it would be great to provide them a fresh look with the help of Rotary and Interact. And what a great way for us Rotarians to work with our youth members on a public project.

Container design. The rainbow will have words on it. This design will appear

the larger sides of the container.

This design will be on the smaller ends.

But much preparation has to happen before we get to painting the actual mural on to the container.

☑ Rust restoration

☐ Prime Painted

☐Top Painted

☐ Stencil Making (Beckie)

☐ Draw design on container

☐ Mural painting

Please come lend a helping hand on fair weather Tuesdays and Thursdays from 1pm to 4pm, with clean up begin at 3. Please pack your own water and good humor.

Pictures of progress thus far

 8ft. by 40ft container

Shaun O’Brian Jomaxing,

power washing and rust conversion.

Prime paint application on to the top of container.

Now time to prime paint the rest of the container. And then paint the top coat on.

Please come and help.