Theodore Roosevelt once said, “This country will not be a good place for any of us to live in unless we make it a good place for all of us to live in.” The East Bay Regional Parks District (“EBRPD”) runs a volunteer trail maintenance program each year that extends from April through November and includes approximately eight separate projects throughout the East Bay parks system. On Saturday, September 28th, over sixty volunteers, including twenty-five employees of Cassidy Turley, a national full service commercial real estate company, put in a hard day’s work at the Diablo Foothills Regional Park near Castle Rock Regional Recreation Center in Walnut Creek.
The volunteers worked from 8:30 am to 1:00 pm in a scenic canyon along Pine Creek creating a new hiking path and eliminating an old trail that had become obsolete and troublesome. Whiff Collins, Senior Managing Director of Cassidy Turley’s Walnut Creek office said, “It was a wonderful opportunity for our three East Bay offices (Oakland, Pleasanton and Walnut Creek) to come together outside of the normal nine to five workday and give something back to the community. Sean Dougan, a Senior Planner with the Trails Development Programs of the East Bay Regional Parks District was impressed with the teamwork displayed by Cassidy Turley. “Swinging a pick-axe for five hours, side by side with your fellow desk jockeys, isn’t a bad way to spend part of a day,” said Dan Moylan of Cassidy Turley.
EBRPD encourages companies and groups to sign up for these types of events as a team building exercise to promote synergy and collaboration. “There are a wide variety of community service projects available in the East Bay and they should be sought out by everyone as a way to give thanks and to participate in something beneficial for the community”, said Jeff Starkovich, Senior Managing Partner of Cassidy Turley’s Oakland office. To quote Winston Churchill, “We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.”
To find out more about the East Bay Parks trail maintenance and restoration projects visit their website at www.ebparks.org/getinvolved/volunteer/trail.
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