Holiday Hoedown
Nearly 200 people gathered to celebrate the season at our Holiday Hoedown at Pickering Barn in Issaquah, December 7th. Thank you to the members of our Celebrations Committee for their hard work in creating a festive and fun party: Mark Russell, Christy Teel, Carrie Jensen, Adele Taggart, Janice Wiberg, Chelsea Howe and Freda Daubert.
Our special thanks go to Costco Wholesale, Rita Cromwell, Winter and Mark Taylor, and Ginger DeWitt for their financial support of the party; Armadillo BBQ for their outstanding food; and the team from Unigard Insurance for volunteering at the event so that our staff, board members, participants and families could enjoy the evening together.
New Truck for AtWork!
AtWork!’s landscaping crew is gathered around the new Ford crew cab
pick-up truck generously provided through a grant from the Employees
Community Fund of Boeing Puget Sound.
Our sincere thanks to Boeing
Employees for their generousity in providing a safe and warm vehicle to
transport our crews to their job sites.
Recap of Stakeholder Meeting
On October 24th a committed group of parents, guardians and others who care about people with disabilities gathered at AtWork!’s Bellevue facility to provide feedback to AtWork! staff about how the move to customized employment has impacted the life of the person they care about. Click here to read the report from that meeting (PDF).
Scary Stuff!
This past Halloween, AtWork! was visited by some demons and ghouls who helped us with our assembly and production services.
Puget Sound Labor Agency Builds A Ramp
The ramp leading to AtWork!’s annex building in Issaquah was in
desperate need of repair. The boards were rotting away underfoot and
the ramp was unsafe for wheel chairs, especially heavy powered chairs.
The building is used for offices, meeting rooms and a client resource
room.
The Puget Sound Labor Agency, as a part of their wheel chair ramp
program, took on the annex ramp as their United Way of King County Day
of Caring project. The floor of the ramp was completely replaced with a
new plywood base and resurfaced with Astroturf to make it slip
resistant in wet and freezing weather.
Thank you PSLA for helping to make the ramp safe for clients, staff and volunteers.
Unigard Cleans Up!
Team Unigard came to AtWork!’s Issaquah campus on September 21st, 2007,
as a part of United Way of King County’s Day of Caring. A group of 12
employees from Unigard Insurance in Bellevue spent the day digging
weeds, pruning bushes and trees and spreading bark in flower beds,
working alongside an AtWork! landscaping crew to get the job done.
The improvement is spectacular! AtWork! is very grateful for the willing hands and giving hearts of all involved.
AtWork! Team Takes a Hike
An AtWork! team of staff and volunteers participated in the Rotary
Walks! Hike for Healthy Kids, on April 21st. The Bellevue Breakfast
Rotary Club staged the event to promote healthy recreation and to
combat childhood obesity. It was a beautiful, sunny spring day, and the
AtWork! team participated to support the Rotary Club as well as
particpate in an inclusionary activity.
