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As one of the Board leaders who helped bring CCA's Caring Cabin in Pacific City, Oregon, to life many years ago - I had quite a good time this past weekend working with some fantastic volunteers as we pulled hundreds of weeds and added beautiful plantings throughout the 24 acres of our cabin's coast property.  Throughout the year, volunteers help us with many projects and much needed landscaping at the Caring Cabin - we couldn't keep things as beauitful and maintained without their efforts like donations of tree trimming, window cleaning, wildflower seeds, bird baths and butterfly houses installed, new plantings, landscaping, bark dust hauled and many other good things!

Ron Clark from TruGreen Landscaping and Charles George and Teresa Chenney from Nike's Facilities Management team helped lead and organize 8 volunteers to work this last Friday and Saturday planting beauitful grasses and flowers and revitalizing the Cabin's lake path, walkways, arbors and property. They were inspiring. 

After cleaning up and admiring the end result of our efforts, I headed a few minutes away to the Pelican Pub and Brewery.  Some more of CCA’s wonderful volunteers and staff had spent the day at the Pelican’s annual Brewers Summer Games.  The folks at the Pub have been supporters of CCA for many years and they generously donate a portion of the proceeds from the Games to the Caring Cabin situated right in their costal town.

Driving back to Portland where I live, I couldn’t help think about the next family  with a kid struggling with a serious illness that was soon to arrive at the Cabin and how our incredible volunteers, staff and donors came together to help build memories that will last longer than they could ever imagine. To read more about the Caring Cabin check out our website - please share your ideas or ways you might help us at the Caring Cabin.

Until next time,

Cliff Ellis, CCA's Co-founder & Caring Cabin Site Coordinator