What an incredible day for Sheffield!

SHEFFIELD-Many of you have seen a photo of me on Facebook wearing a backpack blower from yesterday making the rounds on Facebook. While I’m grateful for the encouragement, I wanted to share the bigger story.

Nearly 100 volunteers and our entire City Council invested their Saturday serving our city.

Church of the Highlands selected Sheffield for this year’s Serve Day and was joined by volunteers from several Sheffield churches and members of our community. Together, they refreshed all 20 of our downtown landscape beds, completed extensive work at the Michael Center, picked up litter, spread fresh mulch, planted flowers, and made a visible difference across our city.

It was an honor to spend the day working alongside so many people who simply wanted to serve.

My sincere thanks to Church of the Highlands, every Sheffield church that participated, Keep The Shoals Beautiful group, every volunteer who gave their time, and everyone who helped make today such a success. Your generosity, hard work, and servant’s heart were a tremendous blessing to Sheffield.

I’d also like to thank local photographer and filmmaker Andrew Johnston for donating his time to document yesterday’s effort. The photos that follow tell the story far better than I ever could.

I hope you’ll take a few moments to look through them and join me in recognizing the people who made the day possible. Sheffield is grateful for each and every one of you.