More than 3,000 Volunteers “Make Change Happen” Around Washington State on Comcast Cares Day 2015 #CCDay

KING TV”s live morning talk show, New Day Northwest, featured a segment about Comcast Cares Day 2015. Click on the photo for a link to the show. Pictured here are Steve Kipp, vice president of communications for Comcast; Deann Anguiano, principal of Marysville-Pilchuck High School; and show host Margaret Larson.

As we detailed in a previous blog post, there were a dozen sites in Washington where more than 3,000 volunteers assembled on Comcast Cares Day 2015. Every year we try to collect news stories, videos, photographs, and social media posts about the event, mostly so our employees can remember and see how their work makes a difference. And that’s this post! To avoid duplication, we don’t reprint the list of things we were doing at each site – you can find that in our original post, and then of course the photographs, stories and other images show that work anyway. If we’re missing something, please email me at walter_neary at cable.comcast.com.

Aberdeen: Downtown Aberdeen Revitalization. with the City of Aberdeen and the Aberdeen Revitalization Movement.

• Here’s a story in advance by the Daily World.
• Here’s a story about the big day from a local news site.
• Here are photographs of some of the work.
• Here’s what ARM had to say on Facebook.

Auburn: Auburn YMCA work on their summer camp area and their Healthy Kids Day.

• Read what the Auburn Reporter has to say about the event.
• Here are photographs of some of the volunteering.

Bellingham: The Firs.Fircreek Day Camp, Retreat Center, and the Discovery School Campus.

• Here’s a news story about the project.
• Here are photographs from the big day.

Bremerton: Bremerton Teen Center.

• Photos to come!

Lakewood: Custer Elementary School.

• Read a news story about the Custer project.

Marysville: Marysville – Pilchuck High School.You can click on the photo at the top of this page to see a segment about this project, which had some emotional overtones owing to a significant tragedy that took place at the school late last year. This project got a lot of attention. Be sure to keep going after the video to see other links.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0xiwtrSaBQ8

• Here’s how Q13 TV showed the project that day.
• Here’s a news article from the North County Outlook
• Here’s an article from the Marysville Globe.
• Here are pictures of the volunteering that went on.

Monroe: Monroe Boys & Girls Club.

• Here’s a nice mention that we appreciated from the Everett Herald.

Orting: Washington Soldiers Home.

• Read a news story about this project.
• Here are some photos.

Redmond: Little Bit Therapeutic Riding Center.

• Here’s a news article by the Redmond Reporter
• Here are some photographs of the volunteers.
• Here’s what the organization had to say on Facebook.

Seattle: Comcast Cares Day presents the Chinatown/ID Spring Clean. Here again, there are other links after the videos below.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oWPyUaGVvEs

Here’s something you don’t see us do every Cares Day: a time-lapse mural! We thought it would be fun to see the day’s progress.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ib8sCiBUNZk

• Here are some photographs from a great day.
• Here are more photos from the International Examiner newspaper.
• Here’s how the International Examiner summed up the day.

Spokane Valley: Spokane Valley Partners.

• Here’s what the organization had to say on Facebook. 
• Here’s a Flickr album of photos from the day.

Tenino: Wolf Haven.

• Here’s a story in advance from the Centralia Chronicle.
• Here’s how the news site Thurston Talk saw the day.
• Here are images from a photographer.

Last but not least, here’s the 30-second video where we try to sum everything up:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j2d2XJf-K6E