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Steamboat Springs — The Steamboat Springs Arts Council is looking for volunteers to help with a spring-cleaning session at the Depot Art Center.

From 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. April 24 and 25, volunteers will be asked to lend a hand with projects including painting, gardening and organizing at the Arts Council’s home. This is the second year the nonprofit arts group has recruited volunteers for a warm-weather cleaning effort, said Arts Council treasurer and board member Marion Ayer.

“We implemented this last year to get the Depot ready for its 100th birthday party, and it worked out so well for us that we decided it’s something we should do every year as a spring cleaning,” Ayer said.

The Arts Council plans to throw a party in August to serve as an end-of-event celebration for the second annual Steamboat All Arts Festival, but board and staff members wanted to clean the building before summer visitors come to town, Ayer said.

Volunteer projects include painting the offices on the second floor of the building, touching up paint in galleries on the ground floor, organizing the kitchen and the Depot’s various storage areas, cleaning up flowerbeds at the front of the building and facing the Yampa River Core Trail and planting flowers in the containers at the entrance to the Depot, Ayer said.

Each volunteer will be offered a ticket to the May 6 showing of Cabaret, an annual variety show fundraiser for the Arts Council, according to a news release from Arts Council board member Jessica Craft. This year’s Cabaret, titled “No Strings Attached,” is scheduled for May 6 to 8 at Str­­­­i­­ngs Music Pavilion. Tickets are $30 and are available from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday at the De­­­pot, according to the release.

In addition to volunteer touch-up work, the Depot’s mud-season repairs and revamping include refinished hardwood floors.

Alpenglo Hard­wood Floor Co. did the work for a discounted rate, and the rest of the money for the work came from the Arts Council, Ayer said.

Use of the Depot for organizational events, affiliate events and meetings, and rental events such as wedding receptions, is up slightly this year from last, Ayer said. The building was used about 100 times more in 2009 than it was in 2008, board president Kelly Anzalone said at the organization’s annual meeting in March.