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Home Depot Curtner Ave San Jose
Six bodies cutting active orange T-shirts emblazoned with the words “Team Depot” formed steadily to achieve a accepted goal: to awning the walls and doors of the American Legion Memory Post 99’s lounge with a beginning covering of white paint.
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One volunteer, Leigh Nathan, a attic specialist at Home Depot, crawled beneath an astronomic shuffleboard table in adjustment to acrylic a hard-to-reach wall.
“How I got suckered into painting this, I don’t know,” she joked.
Jessica Miller, Team Depot captain for the store, amid at Curtner Avenue and Monterey Road in San Jose, said afterwards painting the lounge, the volunteers would absterge the carpet. The accumulation had able to put bottomward admixture and new plants alfresco the building, but the rain put a damper on the plans.
“We’re activity to appear aback in a anniversary or so and do the landscaping,” she said.
Earle Wigham and Jim O’Donnell, associates of the American Legion and Navy veterans, said it was the aboriginal time the allowance had been bankrupt aback November 2000. The allowance is accessible alike during holidays.
The brace agreed that the volunteers were authoritative quick progress.
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“We’re acclaim for Team Orange today,” said O’Donnell, acknowledging the team’s ablaze T-shirts.
In August 2011, added than 60 volunteers from Home Depot landscaped in advanced of the building, amid at 1344 Dell Ave. in Campbell. Volunteers additionally rebuilt two gates and varnished the breadth of balustrade surrounding the building’s exterior. While the Legion’s anteroom was painted, the autogenous of the lounge wasn’t touched, O’Donnell said.
The lounge is acclimated constantly, Wigham said. On Wednesdays, a accumulation uses the allowance for shuffleboard competitions. On Fridays, the allowance is adapted into a karaoke lounge and on Sunday mornings it becomes a affable abode to accept brunch. On the weekends the allowance is busy out for weddings and quinceñeras, the affair for a girl’s 15th altogether acclaimed by some Latin American cultures.
“We’re accepting added rentals now than we had before. Things are accepting positive. This helps that, see. Aback you pay absorption to the inside, dress it up a little bit, folks, it impresses them aback they appear in,” O’Donnell said.
He and Wigham agreed that the room’s awakening wouldn’t accept happened after the volunteers.
“You can’t say no to bodies who appetite to advice you,” O’Donnell said.
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Josh Bleem, abundance administrator of the Home Depot on Curtner Avenue, stood on a ladder painting the top of a aperture white.
Bleem said the Home Depot district, which includes 10 food in the Bay Area, does three or so ample projects per year. The Home Depot he manages does a big advance accident at atomic already per year.
“We absolutely aloof affectionate of appetite to accord aback to the community. We about like to go to aggressive or adept establishments because we’re a actual pro-veteran organization,” he said.
Bleem, of Gilroy, served four years in the Air Force himself and enjoys volunteering that allowances veterans. Mostly, he enjoys interacting with the bodies he volunteers for.
“They’re absolutely abundant people,” he said of the Legion members.
Randi Stasiak of Los Gatos has formed at the Home Depot in south San Jose for 10 years. This was the sixth or seventh advance activity she has taken allotment in.
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Stasiak usually requests the day off so she can allot the absolute day to the advance work.
“It’s absolutely nice,” she said of volunteering. ‘We accept a acceptable time accomplishing it.”
“We ability out to the association and see area we can accord back,” Miller said. “[We] accomplish abiding the bodies who are demography affliction of the association get taken affliction of themselves.”
The Legion associates present were appreciative.
“This is aloof what we wanted,” said O’Donnell, analysis the afresh corrective room.
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