Volunteers do their part on Day of Caring

Published 3:03 pm Wednesday, September 24, 2014

U.S. Bank employees spent time tidying up the Birch Creek Head Start and ECEAP (Early Childhood Education and Assistance Program) Family Center in Kent last week.

Bank employees cleaned up the Kent Youth & Family Service’s facility, part of United Way’s Day of Caring effort last Friday.

Volunteers moved playground chips under the play structures and spruced up the outside. They cleaned and organized storage rooms, wiped walls and baseboards – as Laura Erskine, photo below, does – to remove dust to help children in the program who have asthma.

“We appreciate their help for helping kids with their health and safety by giving them a clean site to learn in,” said Theresa LaRonde, Head Start and ECEAP program director for KYFS.

More than 11,500 people volunteered at 533 community service projects throughout King County for United Way’s Day of Caring last Friday.

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