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Volunteers Lend A Hand In Day Of Caring
October 12, 2013
About 1,350 volunteers were hard at work Friday in Escambia County as part of the United Way’s 21st Annual Day of Caring.
The one-day community events put volunteers from area businesses and the military to work across the county to help nonprofit organizations and schools with lawn maintenance, painting, cooking meals and more.
In the North Escambia area, a volunteer group from the University of West Florida helped with landscaping and pressure washing at Tate High School. At Jim Allen Elementary School, volunteers from retailer T.J. Maxx worked to organize workbook pages.
Meanwhile, volunteers from manufacturer Pall Corporation worked across the campus, reading to students, cleaned the grounds, pressure washed and more. Volunteers from the NAS Community Outreach worked with Pathways for Change to set up the race course for the Pensacola Mud Run 5K on Highway 95A.
And volunteers from Ascend Performance Materials helped clean up and repair the nature trail at Escambia Westgate School.
It was estimated that volunteers donated more than a quarter million dollars worth of time and services Friday at 109 sites across Escambia County.
NorthEscambia.com photos, click to enlarge.
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5 Responses to “Volunteers Lend A Hand In Day Of Caring”
thank you Jamie??had a great time would love to help them more often vary nice people at jim allen
So nice to see people coming together in the community. P.S. Looking good, Mrs. Robin!
Great job!! Looks like we had a lot of hard working volunteers out there. Thank you for ur community service.
THANK U TOO EVERYONE!
Awesome job. Thank You. Surprised to see NO comments for a positive and good story. Thanks William for publishing.