It’s Peanut Butter Jelly Time!!
This evening my office, Long & Foster Perry Hall participated in our bi-monthly volunteer work at Oak Crest Retirement Living. The residents of Oak Crest gather in the dining hall to make peanut butter and jelly sandwiches to benefit the Maryland Food Bank. This event is one of the most fun and rewarding things I have been involved in. The residents look forward to it and so do we!
This evening we made a total of 744 sandwiches in under one hour!
These folks know their way around a PB&J!!
Here are a couple of photos of tonight’s event:
From left to right: Melissa Lockwood, Tammi Copsey (me), Sharon Blough (Manager), Pat Bomhoff, Ellen Reinhard, Arelene Del Gallo
Pat was dishing out peanut butter to the residents and ended up wearing some…
Boxes full of sandwiches…
In the top photo we are standing in front of this sign…I had to share it with everyone!
The article below is from the Oak Crest website is from March (which marked the one year anniversary of our commitment to assistance…at the time we had assisted in making 5000 sandwiches!
Oak Crest and Long & Foster Team Up for Maryland Food Bank
3/6/2009 5000 Sandwiches Made in One-Year History of Program PARKVILLE, MD – Once a month, a dedicated group of people gathers in the Renaissance Gardens Terrace Dining Room of Oak Crest Village. Instead of watching television or going home after work, they are donating their time to make sandwiches for the homeless. Surrounded by dozens of loaves of bread and Ziploc bags, and equipped with a healthy dose of teamwork, the volunteers prepare more than 700 sandwiches that are sent to the Maryland Food Bank for distribution at the next day’s lunch service. For an entire year, it has been a labor of love and fellowship between residents, staff and community volunteers. On the evening of January 14, the crew achieved a milestone of sorts. They made the 5,000th sandwich in the history of the program. “It just goes to show you what a difference a group of people can make a little at a time,” stated Alison Krull, volunteer coordinator at Oak Crest and creator of the program. “It’s been said that ‘we can’t help everyone, but everyone can help someone.’ That’s what we try to accomplish every month for those served by the Maryland Food Bank.” Along with staff and residents, Oak Crest partners with a diverse group of volunteers from the business community and youth organizations, namely the Perry Hall Office of Long and Foster (8712 Belair Road) and Boy Scout Troop #146 (Epiphany Lutheran Church). Sharon Blough, vice president and Perry Hall branch manager for Long and Foster, leads a team of local Realtors and staff who volunteer at Oak Crest throughout the year. They were on hand for the making of the 5000th sandwich. “Knowing that this effort benefits people in Baltimore through the Maryland Food Bank truly makes the project meaningful,” described Blough. “Collaborating with Oak Crest has been a natural fit since our first community service project at their campus several years ago. Our employees have learned so much from their enthusiastic residents.” For more information about this and other activities coordinated by the Oak Crest volunteer program, please contact Alison Krull at 410-665-1000. About Long and Foster: Located at 8721 Belair Road, the Perry Hall office of Long and Foster is the home to a dedicated team of professionals providing real estate, mortgage, title and insurance services. For more information, please contact Long and Foster at 410-529-1900. About Oak Crest Village: More than 2,200 people live at Oak Crest Village, an Erickson full-service retirement community that promotes a vibrant lifestyle. Erickson Retirement Communities is one of the leading national developers of full-service retirement communities. Headquartered near Baltimore, MD, Erickson has built an innovative network of communities that combine a maintenance-free active lifestyle with an ever-expanding host of amenities, social activities, and wellness and medical centers, proven to improve both physical and mental health. Erickson was named by FORTUNE as being one of the Top 100 “2009 Best Companies to Work For®.” For more information about this story, please contact Jeff Getek, public relations manager, at 410-882-3262, ext. 3189.
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