Front page news in Decatur... The Decatur Focus "Hometown Heroes" honorees.

Paul Mitchell (Enterprise Applications) was in the Decatur Focus last month after being honored as one of Decatur’s 2012 Hometown Heroes.

According to the article, “Paul Mitchell has been a Martin Luther King Jr. Service Project volunteer since its founding in 2003. Paul has professional skills in all aspects of home repair and renovation. In 2010, Paul joined the leadership committee and has served as Project Chair for two years.”

“Paul assesses the work to be done at all of the homes and develops reports for the committee to review, doing in-depth assessments on between 25 and 40 homes (depending on the number of applicants). He works with the Operations Committee to assign the appropriately skilled House Captains to each of the selected homes. Paul oversees material purchases, tool rentals, and all aspects of the project. Paul has served on the (DPA) board for the last several years and has taken on a number of administrative duties, as well as grant writing and other fundraising duties for the MLK Project. Paul helps the seniors feel comfortable with what the project will do for them and with the volunteers who will work on their homes.”

Here is the original Decatur Focus article.

You can learn more about volunteering for the MLK Service Project at www.mlkserviceproject.com. According to Paul, this year they did major and minor repair work on 26 homes, did yard repair/work on 37 homes, and used over 1100 volunteers.