Laying It On Thick:
Drake H&S Participates in Paint-A-Thon 2006
Jennifer Koch

What has eighteen hands, gray spots and a ton of determination? It's Drake Hardware & Software's Paint-A-Thon team!

Armed with ladders, scrapers, brushes and gallon cans of slate gray paint, Drake Hardware & Software employees and members of the First Presbyterian Church scraped siding, caulked windows and spread on a coat of community action when they took on a local Burlington house in need of a brush-up. Homeowner John Brueck is one of eighteen individuals chosen for this year's annual Paint-A-Thon, sponsored by Burlington Bank & Trust and Diamond Vogel Paint. Qualified homeowners are low-income elderly or handicapped Burlington residents who cannot handle the major undertaking themselves, and cannot afford a commercial paint job.

Drake Hardware & Software, participant in the Burlington Paint-A-Thon for four years, is only one of thirty-two teams who took part in the annual event in 2006. Paint-A-Thon team members power-wash the homes, repair gutters and fences, and cut down grass around the homes as well as slather on a slick new coat of paint. Brueck's shutters, ornamental fountain and garden statuary look like new thanks to our efforts this year.

Gratitude goes out to Drake Hardware & Software team captains, Teresa Pfeiff-Naughton and Mike High, First Presbyterian Church team captain Shirley Webster, for pitching in and directing the troops, and a special thanks to Jeff for not attempting to paint trim. Check out the photos below!

Consultant Don Brown keeps the ladder steady while Dana trims up the...er...trim.	Consultant Mike High helps out with some heavy lifting.
1490 KBUR radio announcer Steve Hexom drops in to interview our team captains!	Reach, Dana, reach!
Consultants Teresa and Don clean up after a hard day's work.	No, Jeff didn't spend all of his time 'supervising.' ...Really! "You missed a spot, Dana!"