Celebration of Service

As many of you know, I work at Home Depot. A job that I truly enjoy everyday. The people I work with are amazing and I love the company as well. One of the biggest things I love is the Team Depot events. Team Depot are comprised of associates volunteering their time to help build or fix property around our area.

Also, you may know that I am the daughter of a veteran. My mother was deployed during Desert Storm. My father was active duty throughout this time as well. I am a proud Air Force brat! I have a family full of veterans whom I am so proud of and love dearly. The military is extremely important to me and whatever I can do to support them I try to do.

What do these two things have in common?

Everything.

On October 5, I had the wonderful opportunity to take part in a Team Depot event celebrating our veterans.

Teamdepotmichigan.org

These were the 215 volunteers that showed up in downtown Detroit.

We were helping to restore a building and a lot across the street for homeless veterans trying to get back on their feet. We teamed up with the Volunteers of America to get this project on its feet.

There were 6 teams and projects. There were teams for across the street to clean up an old parking lot that Mother Nature was taking back for her own with trees and brush growing up through the pavement and a park that was cleared out.

Our group was responsible for cleaning debris from the building where 60 homeless veterans will have beds before the first snow. We cleaned up drywall dust, scraps, and other such things. It was time consuming work that we finished well ahead of schedule due to so many volunteers. We were walking around the building for over an hour after we'd finished trying to find things to do!

These were my lovely coworkers that were so thrilled to have made it to Detroit alive! Kim (the gal in the sweatshirt) drove and lets just say that 80 was slow to her!

We are ready to go!

This was everyone from our district.

Cleaned the metal in the stairway to be spray painted later that day.

This is David, one of our head cashiers helping me out.

I got just a little dirty.

My store crew. Top row: Scott, Jackie, Brooke, David

Bottom row: Kim, Barbara, me

The dedication.

I was not there for the dedication because we had to leave, but the whole thing was an experience I enjoyed wholeheartedly.

Veteran's Park

Thank you to all of our Veterans for you dedication and service.