I used to help plan our company's annual Art Show, where employees got to showcase their various artwork and performance talents. It took a considerable amount of time and planning, but nothing was too difficult. When I was asked a couple of months ago to help plan our campus's events centered around social responsibility, I accepted, not knowing exactly what I was getting myself into. However, after hours of meetings, phone calls, e-mails, and other various planning, our "Sage Day" on Friday went off with only a few minor hitches.
Employees from around the company donated food for the Oregon Food Bank and pet supplies for the Oregon Humane Society. Five groups of employees completed community service projects in the afternoon for the Oregon Humane Society, Tualatin Hills Parks and Rec District, and Schoolhouse Supplies. We all got reusable shopping bags and water bottles. We had a great BBQ supplemented with bangers and mash, bread pudding, and strawberry trifle.
Our support department sponsored a separate contest to see which team could donate the most stuff for OFB and OHS. I gave them through the end of the day Friday to make their donations, so yesterday I went back to the office (with Marc as my helper) to tally everything. We loaded about 1,300 pounds of stuff into the Xterra and dropped it off at the Humane Society! I am totally impressed with how great of a response we got from the teams in their donations.
After that excursion in the morning, we came home and took what was supposed to be a 20-minute nap. It turned into 2 hours and we overslept the Indiana Jones movie we had free tickets for. Oops.
For dinner we tried a new pizza place--Extreme Pizza! We hung out at Slimey's house with him and the boys for awhile since it'd been awhile since we've seen them.
Anyway, I'm glad everything for Sage Day is done. I have slept a LOT this weekend--it had me exhausted!
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