Comcast to the rescue
This past Saturday, the local Comcast office showed up at Spectrum at 8am with over 50 volunteers, and they were ready to work.
They broke up into three teams. One crew headed over to our group home on Murray St, where the spent the next four hours building and painting a new fence around the side yard, putting together a new picnic table, cleaning and refinishing the existing picnic tables, and even sanding and staining the front deck of the house. The result was awesome!
Another crew stayed at One Stop and got to work on our drop-in center. They put a fresh paint of coat on the hallway walls and in the bathroom, they shampooed the rugs, cleaned the entire drop-in main room, and performed a much-needed scrub-down of our kitchen.
The third crew went up to the shelter, and they too scrubbed the entire place – the bathrooms, the kitchen, the living room, everything. They went to work with a carpet cleaning machine at the end; I was there and trust me, that carpet is now clean.
It was just a great day. Many of our drop-in staff were there to help out, and even Governor Douglas made a surprise appearance at the beginning to encourage us all on. At the end Comcast purchased dozens of pizzas from Papa John’s and we all relaxed on the lawn of the Unitarian church. Several Spectrum youth joined us, as some of them had been helping too during the day, and the food that was left over went to them.
I am very grateful to Pam McKenzie of Comcast and all their employees. They are helping us big-time at Spectrum with not only donated funds but with their time, muscles and energy. It’s a great partnership. We are lucky to have them on our side.
January 1st, 2010 at 3:15 am
Very nice post