Comcast Employees, Family and Friends Make a Big Difference Throughout Western Washington and Spokane on 11th Annual Comcast Cares Day

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It’s hard to know what to say to the more than 2,200 local Comcast employees and their families and friends who volunteered Saturday, April 21, 2012, at 13 school and nonprofit sites around Western Washington and Spokane as part of Comcast Cares Day.

Of course, we do say, Thank You. But one thing we like to do is collect photographs and stories from the day, as part of this wonderful scrapbook that we all call the Internet. So if you keep an eye on this post, you will see a gradually growing list of links to photographs and stories about our volunteers’ hard work.

Here is a list of projects and reports:

Aberdeen: Habitat for Humanity of Grays Harbor.

• Here’s a personal blog post by one of the volunteers, whose children also helped.
• Click here to see photographs of the work
• Radio station KBKW had a report about the event here
• Here’s a photograph of the work published in the Daily World

Bellingham: Whatcom Parks and Recreation Foundationat the Chuckanut Falls Trail

• Click here to see what the Bellingham Business Journal had to say (scroll to the concluding page item)
• Click here to see photographs of the work
• See nice photos that the Foundation posted to Facebook

Bremerton: Boys & Girls Clubs of South Puget Sound’s Bremerton Olympia Avenue location

• Click here to see photographs of the day in Bremerton
• Here’s mention in a great article in the Bremerton Patriot about the value of volunteering

Everett: Salvation Army

• Click here to see photographs of the Everett project

Everett: Cascade High School and the Everett School District

• Click here to see photographs at Cascade High School
• Click here to see thanks from the district (link had that content  at time of posting)

Fife: Fife Parks Department at the Lower Hylebos Marsh

•  You can see a nice article in the Fife Free Press here about Comcast Cares Day there
• Click here to see the Fife Free Press’ followup story after the event
• Here is an editorial in the Fife Free Press about what volunteering means to a community
• Click here to see pictures of the volunteering in Fife
• For a video about highlights of the project, see the YouTube screen below:

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Kent: Northwest Harvest Northwest Harvest reports that our people put in $24,000 worth of donated labor. We packed 19,000 meals for the hungry.

• The Kent Reporter’s account before the big day
• The Kent Reporter’s story from the big day
• @KentKOMO has pictures here
• Click here to see photographs of our Auburn office folks helping Northwest Harvest
• Click below to see a short film about all the activity:

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Olympia: Rebuilding Together of Thurston County.

• The Olympian photographer Tony Overman has a slideshow of the Comcast Cares Day project in Olympia.
• Click here to read a story about people helping a special 99-year-old lady
• Here are our photographs of the project

•  ThurstonTalk.com has a really nice story summarizing all that Rebuilding Together does

Redmond: Eastside Audubon Society at the Audubon BirdLoop at Marymoor Park.

• Click here to see photographs of the project
• Redmond Reporter’s coverage is here
• Redmond Patch’s coverage is here

Seattle: El Centro de La Raza

• Click here to see the KING TV morning show segment about this project
• Click here to see interviews on KIRO TV that morning, filmed at El Centro de La Raza
• Click here to see our pictures of the event
• Click on the screenshot at the top of this page to see video of the Seattle project.
• Here you’ll see a great slideshow of El Centro de La Raza’s pictures from the day

Seattle: Wing Luke Asian Museum

• Click here to see one of the live Tweets and pictures from the event

Spokane: Northeast Community Center

• KREM 2’s story in advance of the work is here
• Watch TV coverage from the day of the event
• Here are pictures of the volunteering in Spokane

Tacoma: Metro Parks STAR (South Tacoma Activity and Recreation) Center  Here, Comcast volunteers worked side-by-side with partners from the Tacoma Urban League and a local Girl Scout Troop.

• Here are photographs of the project

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