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Past Community Service Projects

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Since October 2003, members have volunteered four times a year to clean up a half mile stretch of Cherry Hill Road between Powder Mill Road and the Montgomery County/Prince George's County line. This project supports Prince George's County's "Livable Communities" initiative. ABC of Metro Washington thanks Community Service Committee member Michael Whitehead of Williams Scotsman for serving as our project leader and liaison to the county.

Adopt A Road

Clean-up volunteers have included teams from the following member companies:

Alliant Insurance Services, Inc.
Aronson & Company
Busy Ditch, Inc.
Clark Construction Group, LLC
Councilor, Buchanan & Mitchell, P.C., CPAs
CTS Services
Donohoe Construction Company
Enterprise Fleet Management
Gilbane Building Company
Goldin & Stafford, LLC
The Meltzer Group
Mid-Atlantic Promotions
Reznick Group, P.C.
SunTrust Bank
Tradesmen International, Inc.
Williams Scotsman

Pictured are
Kirk Kharwacki,
his granddaughter Triniti Burroughs, and Lee Lockhart from Tradesmen International as they get ready to pick up trash along our adopted road.

	Lake Artemesia May 2009 Construction Bonds, Inc. Facchina Construction Company, Inc. Oncore Construction, LLC SunTrust Bank Tradesmen International, Inc.

Thanksgiving Dinner Food Drive for DC Families

Since 2006, the Community Service Committee has worked with Pastor Bob Mathieu of DC Christian Ministries and the Anacostia Gospel Chapel to provide the ingredients for Thanksgiving dinner to families in need in southeast DC.

Find out more about this project and the most recent food drive.

DC Schools Buff and Scrub
Read about the schools helped in 2008	Read about the schools helped in 2007

Manna Food Center - 2009

Thank you! 3,298 Pounds of Food - that's how much members donated during the February 2009 food drive. 27 Volunteers - that's how many volunteers came out on February 28th to sort the food. Donations and volunteers came from these member companies.	American Platform & Scaffolding Co., Inc. Aronson & Company Busy Ditch, Inc. Coakley & Williams Construction, Inc. Construction Bonds, Inc. Gilbane Building Company Grunley Construction Company, Inc. Imperial Stone Paving, LLC	KBE Building Corporation Oncore Construction, LLC P & P Contractors, Inc. Reznick Group, P.C. Ruppert Landscape Company, Inc. Shepherd Design & Construction, LLC SunTrust Bank Therrien Waddell Tradesmen International, Inc. Williams Scotsman

Lake Artemesia Cleanup - May 2008
For the third year in a row, Community Service Committee member Kirk Karwacki, Tradesmen International, Inc., organized a spring cleanup project in a Prince George’s County park. The spring 2008 project was at Lake Artemesia in Berwyn Heights, MD, where 20 volunteers painted benches and spread mulch to beautify the park for its neighbors.
Bill Gordon, park manager for Prince George’s County Department of Parks and Recreation, sent the following message to Karwacki after the project: “I wanted to pass on my appreciation to you and your volunteers for all you do for The Maryland National Capital Park and Planning Commission and the patrons of our parks. This year you came through with another great job as in [the] past. Bob Burgner sent me a message raving about you and your group, stating it was one of the best groups he has ever worked with. I know this year we had some changes and your staff were still able to get it done. Please pass this on to all your volunteers. I hope they all had some time to enjoy the Lake after their work was done. Many Thanks!”	Volunteers came from these member companies: Alliant Insurance Services, Inc. Aronson & Company Miller & Long Co., Inc. SunTrust Bank Tradesmen International, Inc.

Great Strides Run-in Shed

In early 2008, volunteers built a new run-in shed for Great Strides, a non-profit organization in Damascus, MD, that provides equine therapy to disabled youth and adults.

Volunteers and Great Strides Board
Members join Linus (left, gray horse)
and Remy (right, brown horse) at a
ribbon cutting party for their new run-in shed

Our thanks go out to the following member firms involved in this project:

Aronson & Company
Delaware Elevator, Inc.
Duron Paints & Wallcoverings
Facchina Construction Company, Inc.
Gordon Contractors, Inc.
Hess Mechanical Corporation/Comfort Systems USA
Roche Brothers, Inc.
Southern Insulation, Inc.
Williams Scotsman

ABC of Metro Washington's Community Service Committee thanks the following member companies that participated in this project: Busy Ditch, Inc. CTS Services Donohoe Construction Company HITT Contracting Inc. Posner Industries Rand Construction Corporation SunTrust Bank The Banneker Group Tradesmen International, Inc.	Vansville Park Cleanup


On Saturday, April 21, 2007, 24 volunteers from the chapter's Community Service Committee and nine member companies took advantage of a warm spring morning to combat the effects of winter at Vansville Neighborhood Rec Center in Beltsville, Maryland. To make this neighborhood park ready for summer activities, the volunteers picked up trash; painted three picnic tables and four basketball poles and their backstops; spread stone dust under picnic tables and wood chips around a playground; and replaced a wood-beam border around the playground.

Manna Food Center - 2006
ABC of Metro Washington members donated over 1,000 pounds of food in January 2006 and more than 2,700 pounds of food in July that year. Volunteers also sorted, packed and made boxes to help Manna prepare for distributing food to needy Montgomery County residents. Volunteers also donated their services to convert a storage room into an office. The space needed to have a window installed in a masonry wall, a doorway connecting the storage room to another office sealed, a new doorway installed out into the warehouse, telephone and computer wiring, HVAC service extended into the office, paint and carpet.

Project Participants included	Aerotek Alliant Insurance Services, Inc. Aronson & Company John E. Barry Plumbing & Heating Corp. BE&K Building Group, Inc. Busy Ditch, Inc. Chapel Valley Landscape Company Coakley & Williams Construction, Inc.	CRU Building Corporation Donohoe Construction Company Dustin Construction, Inc. Electrical General Enterprise Fleet Management Facchina Construction Company, Inc. Forrester Construction Company, Inc. Goldin & Stafford, LLC Henley Construction Co., Inc. HITT Contracting Inc.	KBE Building Corporation Outside Unlimited, Inc. P.N. Hoffman, Inc. Reznick Group, P.C Shapiro & Duncan, Inc. Sterling Construction Services Incorporated Southern Maryland Floor Company SunTrust Bank Tradesmen International, Inc. Tuckman-Barbee Construction Co. Williams Scotsman

Calculators Donated
	ABC of Metro Washington donated six graphing calculators to Booker T. Washington Public Charter School for Technical Arts in Washington, DC. The students received the calculators in time to use them on their fall 2005 SATs.

Hurricane Katrina Relief
		Members Respond in the Aftermath of Hurricane Katrina Working with ABC's National office and Virginia Chapter, ABC of Metro Washington members responded to a call for help from the association's Mississippi Chapter just days after the devastating storm in 2005. Learn more about this effort.

SiNGA, Inc.

In 2005, volunteers painted new offices for this non-profit that teaches city residents about the textile industry.

Potomac Ridge Behavioral Health Foundation
In 2005, volunteers painted a basketball court and indoor gym, and worked on landscaping and other beautification projects.

Sign of the Times Cultural Workshop and Gallery Fall 2004
	Volunteers: Luis Ortez and John Barry of John E. Barry Plumbing & Heating; Lisa Barbas and Charmaine Cheung of DSMO; Dan Plante and Cindy Basham of Capitol Drywall; Bruce Eppard of Suntrust Bank; Jim Kinkead of Clark Construction; Omar Flores, Edwin Alvarez, Andres Flores, and Oscar Gomez of Miller & Long; and Kristi Weaver of Midatlantic Promotions