O&R Volunteers to Spruce Up Girl Scout Camp as Part of Annual United Way Day of Caring

PEARL RIVER, NY October 3, 2007 — More than 20 O&R volunteers will be deployed throughout Girl Scout Camp Addison Boyce in Stony Point on Friday, October 5 to paint floors, walls, ceilings and picnic tables, repair screen windows, rebuild gates and install flooring as part of the autumn camp-wide clean up sponsored by the Rockland United Way's annual Day of Caring.

The Day of Caring utilizes volunteers that have been given a paid day off from their jobs in county businesses to perform much-needed work for local non-profit agencies. In addition to providing its skilled volunteers for the day, O&R also has underwritten part of the day's activities with a grant of $2,500.

The O&R volunteers will be meeting at the Girl Scout Camp at 8:30 am for a team meeting and job briefing on the projects for the day.

O&R raised more than a quarter of a million dollars for this year's United Way annual fundraising drive, making the local electric and gas utility company the campaign's Top Donor for the tenth consecutive year.

Since 1993, O&R and Local 503 have donated over $2 million in employee contributions and shareholder matches to the United Way.

O&R employs over 1,000 people, almost all of whom also are O&R customers.