IBM Centennial Year of Service Volunteers
On Friday, May 20, 2011, IBMers from throughout the Hudson Valley descended upon the Trolley Museum and accomplished an impressive amount of work.
Projects included laying sod in the picnic area, mulching the traffic islands in the parking lot, picking up brush, organizing parts, building a planter, painting a locomotive and cleaning a subway car.
We want to thank the IBM volunteers and IBM management for making this possible.
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(photo credit: J. McGrew)
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The picnic area first has gravel shoveled out and then top soil set in.
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Sod is finished in the picnic area.
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(photo credit: J. McGrew)
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(photo credit: J. McGrew)
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The traffic islands in the parking lot are weeded and mulched.
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Brush is piled in City trucks.
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(photo credit: J. McGrew)
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(photo credit: J. McGrew)
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Locomotive #9 gets more black and yellow paint.
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A group photo.
There were 55 IBM volunteers total.
This is a portion of them gathered just after a rain shower had scattered people finding quick shelter.
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(photo credit: J. McGrew)
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(photo credit: R. McKnight)
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Lunch time!
IBM supplied food, water and snacks for the hungry participants.
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Give a Day, Get a Disney Day
The Trolley Museum hosted monthly special volunteer days for the 2010
Give a Day, Get a Disney Day program for people who registered through Disneyparks.com.
The concept is simple:
volunteer for a day at a qualifying non-profit organization and receive a free day pass to a Disney park.
The program exceeded all expectations nationwide when 1
Million people registered for the program within weeks of it opening!
The Trolley Museum received about 100 confirmed registrants who's
work days were spread evenly between four monthly dates from March to June 2010.
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Steve Ladin (standing left) along with the rest of the crew leaders briefs the volunteers about the day ahead.
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(photo credit: J. McGrew, March 20, 2010)
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(photo credit: J. McGrew, March 20, 2010)
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One crew tackles the yard area by the hillside to clear it of brush and debris.
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Another crew works the mini park and upper track, creating what will become an enormous brush pile.
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(photo credit: J. McGrew, March 20, 2010)
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(photo credit: J. McGrew, March 20, 2010)
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Another group led by Hildegard Edling (on left w/ red shirt) weeds the landscaped islands in the parking lot.
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A ride on the trolley for all volunteers capped the afternoon.
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(photo credit: J. McGrew, March 20, 2010)
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(photo credit: D. Benkart, Jr. May 15, 2010)
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The 3rd Disney volunteer day featured the pick up of scrap ties.
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The group gathers for a photo at the end of the afternoon.
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(photo credit: D. Benkart, Jr. May 15, 2010)
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