Community Involvment & a BIG Thank you!
Last week I spent the entire week helping to renovate the Big Brothers and Big Sisters office here in town. I wanted to write a post about it for a number of reasons but first some background on why and how I got involved. My Mom has been a supporter of the organization through her work at the TDBank and this past year she was invited to join the board of directors, which she did. As a result the rest of the family gets roped into helping or participating in their events, so through BBQ’s and bowling I have gotten to know the people who work so very hard to make the organization a success.
Money is always an issue for charities and when they needed to move to a new office they found a place that had cheap rent on the main drag here in Fort Erie. The place, was in pretty rough shape. It was dirty with moldy carpets and walls and a bathroom that was so dingy that I wouldn’t have been happy having to use it. This upset my mother a great deal, “How do we present ourselves as a professional organization when the office looks like this, it’s embarrassing!”. After some discussion they decided that something needed to be done. Being that I am currently out of work my mother asked if I would go have a look at the space to see if I had any ideas on how to spruce it up, which I did. I then decided that I should go and speak with some local businesses about helping us with the project, either with money or in-kind donations and to my surprise I got some great help. The biggest job was to get repainted to add some interest brighten and clean up the place, so I went to the local Benjamin Moore paint store called Fort Erie Paints owned by Steve & Lucy Brown. As luck would have it Steve was there and I told him what I was up too and he said that they could help with some paint donations. I got all the dimensions and brought them back to Lucy and they proceeded to organize what we needed. To my wonderful surprise when I went to get the paint I found the between Fort Erie Paints and Benjamin Moore there was no charge, they donated it all, over five hundred dollars worth of paint and materials. So this post is really for them, it’s my personal thank you for being great people and a great company and for giving to the community and supporting a great cause. The office looks fantastic, it’s clean and bright and the staff is prouder than ever to be working there!
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