Family Resource Center appreciates paint job

Days of Caring is made up of people throughout our county, lending a hand close to home by assisting nonprofit agencies to accomplish needed projects such as landscaping, painting, carpentry and autumn clean-up. United Way organizes this event yearly in September.

The Family Resource Center was the fortunate recipient on Sept. 5 of a fresh coat of interior paint thanks to the Skagit State Bank, Days of Caring team. The resource center houses SPARC, Skagit Islands Head Start and Catholic Community Services.

The energetic team of Skagit State Bank employees — Jackie Frazier, Krista Poppe, Kim Walley, Michele Johnson, Sarah Nevares, Sally Mills, Josh Bluhm, Marcy Poortinga and Karin Shough — did a wonderful job. They left weary and paint-splattered but still cheerful. They left behind brightened hallways and rooms.

Sincere thanks from SPARC, Skagit Islands Head Start and Catholic Community service to these individuals and to United Way.  

Patricia Holloran

Executive Director

SPARC

Mount Vernon

MV Parks gives thanks for Soap Box Derby support

Mount Vernon Parks and Recreation hosted 38 Soap Box Derby Racers and their families on Sept. 20-21 to race down the Second Street Viaduct in the Soap Box Derby Rally Race. We appreciate the support of our community sponsors and volunteers that help make this event possible!

Thank you to the following community sponsors: Pacific Coast Auto, Pat Rimmer Les Schwab Tire Center in Burlington, Burlington Auto Parts, VanderYacht Propane, Skagit Grand Auto Collision, Whidbey Island Bank, Skagit Power Sports and Blade Chevrolet.

In addition, thank you to all the staff and volunteers who endured the rainy weekend and made the Soap Box Derby Rally Race a great event: Mike Bourgeois, Jim Lippert, Lindsey Gear, Gregg Murphy, Myron and Becky Ayers, Alex Esparza, Dave and Melissa Tippets, Bea Welzbacker and all MVPR staff.

Thank you again for your continued support.

Lisa Esparza

Mount Vernon Parks & Recreation

Kudos to participantsin Days of Caring event

On behalf of United Way of Skagit County and Community Action Agency’s Volunteer Center, United Way’s Days of Caring volunteer chair Tracy Willis and I would like to thank Cascades Job Corps, Country Meadow Village, the Mount Vernon School District, Sedro-Woolley School Foundation, Shell Refinery, and Skagit State Bank for their participation in this year’s Days of Caring event. Their gift of time, energy and commitment to each project is greatly appreciated.

The projects included a moving project for Chinook Enterprises, painting the Skagit Preschool and Resource Center, painting for the Skagit Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault Services, painting for the Sedro-Woolley Senior Center, an outdoor fall clean-up for the Anacortes Senior Center, and replacing a new sink for Skagit County Community Action Agency. This annual Days of Caring is part of United Way’s 2008 Kick-Off Campaign. Together we can multiply the good in our community.

We received feedback from all of the agencies who had projects completed during Days of Caring. The feedback has been consistent: that these agencies would have been unable to dedicate finances or time to these projects, which therefore would have gone unfinished were it not for the dedication to making this community a better place to live.

Susan Rowe

Volunteer Center Event Coordinator

Mount Vernon