Wire Craft Electric company president Josh Miller believes tough economic times are still a good time to give something back. His desire to help led the Shoreline resident and his team of volunteers to Everett on Nov. 1.
Wearing matching yellow T-shirts and armed with paintbrushes and rollers the team of 15 volunteers from Wire Craft Electric, Blown Away Painting, PerSyst Consulting, R&R Specialists and the Aurora Church of the Nazarene spent the day painting three rooms of The Cocoon House, a shelter for homeless and at-risk youth.
“There’s a lot of need and painting is something that can be done today,” Miller said. “We just want to help the community and give something back.”
The nonprofit facility was one of nine shelters and nonproft agencies in King and Snohomish counties that received a fresh coat of paint and minro repairs during the fourth annual Master Builders Care Foundation’s Painting a Better Tomorrow event.
Saturday was the first time father and son duo Horst and Brandon Schwendtke of R&R Specialists participated in the event.
“…This is what it’s all about: bucking up and helping out when times get tough,” Horst said while pouring more paint into his tray.
The paint volunteers used to cover the bedroom walls wasn’t as colorful as a mural covering a portion of the building’s exterior, but was every bit as appreciated, according to Danielle Gadek, volunteer coordinator at the shelter.
“(Rooms) don’t get painted very often,” she said. “If you can imagine not having a place to call your own, finding Cocoon House and then having it painted and looking nice really does give (teens) a sense of home and belonging.”
Since 2005, volunteers with the Painting a Better Tomorrow project of the Master Builders Care Foundation’s Shelter Care program have painted and performed minor repair work for nonprofit organizations, mostly homeless shelters in King and Snohomish counties. The event was sponsored by Claffey’s Painting, US Bank Home Mortgage, AAA Kartak Glass and Closet, The Godwin Group and Ferguson Enterprises. Paint for the event was donated by Rhodda Paint and Sherwin Williams.
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