Hello and Welcome to the Community Connections blog!
It's that time of the year again...time for our 5th Annual Volunteer Recognition Luncheon. We will hold the luncheon on Monday, June 18 at Su Hong Restaurant in Palo Alto. It will be a great time to celebrate all of the volunteer work our participants have done out in the community. For reservations, please contact andrea@abilitiesunited.org.
We are also starting a new partnership next week with Peninsula Volunteers of the Bay Area. Our participants will be working at Little House in Menlo Park, assembling newsletters, doing office work and helping around the volunteer center. Everyone is excited to start this new work site.
In our community classes we held a music celebration at our Marimba class at the Community School of Music and Art. Our participants held a small concert and they were terrific! We will be on hiatus from Marimba classes over the summer, but are hoping to take singing classes at the College of Adaptive Arts in San Jose.
It's always busy in the Community Connections program. Thanks for reading!
andrea
Abilities United Community Connections activities and announcements
Friday, May 18, 2012
Monday, May 7, 2012
What a Celebration!
Hello Everyone!
Welcome to the Community Connections Blog! Thank you for reading!
Today we had our 5th Annual Participant ART RECEPTION AT CSMA. What a huge success! All of our participants' art was on display; we have such a talented group of students. Everything from ceramics to wire sculptures lined the halls of the Community School of Music and Art.
"We absolutely love Abilities United participants," noted Art School Director Linda Covello. "They are all so talented. We feel privileged to have them as our students. It's one of our favorite events of the year."
Several Abilities United staff members attended the reception, along with family and friends. All of the students were awarded an artist certificate. The art work will be on display at CSMA, 230 San Antonio Rd, until this sunday, May 13.
Please let me know if you have questions!
Thanks for the suppport and keep reading!
andrea
Welcome to the Community Connections Blog! Thank you for reading!
Today we had our 5th Annual Participant ART RECEPTION AT CSMA. What a huge success! All of our participants' art was on display; we have such a talented group of students. Everything from ceramics to wire sculptures lined the halls of the Community School of Music and Art.
"We absolutely love Abilities United participants," noted Art School Director Linda Covello. "They are all so talented. We feel privileged to have them as our students. It's one of our favorite events of the year."
Several Abilities United staff members attended the reception, along with family and friends. All of the students were awarded an artist certificate. The art work will be on display at CSMA, 230 San Antonio Rd, until this sunday, May 13.
Please let me know if you have questions!
Thanks for the suppport and keep reading!
andrea
Saturday, April 14, 2012
Save the Date !
Hello Everyone!
Welcome to the Community Connections blog!
It's time for our fifth annual Art Reception at the Community School of Music and Art...so please save the date.... Monday May 7...1 PM at the CSMA building, 230 San Antonio Road.
It promises to be a wonderful event. It is always great to celebrate the awesome art work of our participants.
Please contact me with any questions (andrea@abilitiesunited.org)
Hope to see you there!
andrea
Welcome to the Community Connections blog!
It's time for our fifth annual Art Reception at the Community School of Music and Art...so please save the date.... Monday May 7...1 PM at the CSMA building, 230 San Antonio Road.
It promises to be a wonderful event. It is always great to celebrate the awesome art work of our participants.
Please contact me with any questions (andrea@abilitiesunited.org)
Hope to see you there!
andrea
Thursday, March 22, 2012
Two new partnerships!
Hello and Welcome to the Community Connections blog!
We have just started a new partnership with the city of Sunnyvale. Every other friday we go to the Sunnyvale Community Services site and help with a variety of tasks. We work in the donation closet, help with gifts, organize food and help with whatever we can.
The Director has been so happy with our work-she has emailed several times to compliment our participants. Sunnyvale is a new area for us and we are excited to be having new opportunities. Everyone seems to be having a terrific time helping out.
Hopefully in the future we will be working at other sites in Sunnyvale.
We have also started a new project at Lytton Gardens Senior Center. Every monday a group of our participants goes to Lytton Gardens and hosts a Bingo game for the residents.
"Our residents absolutely love our Bingo game-day with your participants," notes volunteer coordinator Bethany Dihn. "They bring so much joy to our residents."
We might even film this project for our next television program!
Stay tuned for more exciting updates. And thanks for reading.
andrea
We have just started a new partnership with the city of Sunnyvale. Every other friday we go to the Sunnyvale Community Services site and help with a variety of tasks. We work in the donation closet, help with gifts, organize food and help with whatever we can.
The Director has been so happy with our work-she has emailed several times to compliment our participants. Sunnyvale is a new area for us and we are excited to be having new opportunities. Everyone seems to be having a terrific time helping out.
Hopefully in the future we will be working at other sites in Sunnyvale.
We have also started a new project at Lytton Gardens Senior Center. Every monday a group of our participants goes to Lytton Gardens and hosts a Bingo game for the residents.
"Our residents absolutely love our Bingo game-day with your participants," notes volunteer coordinator Bethany Dihn. "They bring so much joy to our residents."
We might even film this project for our next television program!
Stay tuned for more exciting updates. And thanks for reading.
andrea
Thursday, February 23, 2012
What a gift!
Hello And Welcome to the Community Connections blog!
We have very exciting news. One of our terrific volunteers, Diana Alchimisti and her husband Jerry have made a very generous donation to our Adult Day Program. The Alchimistis along with their family business, Advantage Converters donated $500 and several supplies to the program.
It is a wonderful gift and we are so very grateful. We are delighted that Diana is working on tuesdays and thursdays as a volunteer in the program. She is a very talented person and we are so grateful to have her help.
We presented Advantage Converters with a Make My Day gift of flowers, cookies and a card and they were really happy. The entire company took part in the celebration.
We could not do what we do without our incredible volunteers. Thank you Diana, Jerry and all of Advantage Converters. You are our angels!
andrea
We have very exciting news. One of our terrific volunteers, Diana Alchimisti and her husband Jerry have made a very generous donation to our Adult Day Program. The Alchimistis along with their family business, Advantage Converters donated $500 and several supplies to the program.
It is a wonderful gift and we are so very grateful. We are delighted that Diana is working on tuesdays and thursdays as a volunteer in the program. She is a very talented person and we are so grateful to have her help.
We presented Advantage Converters with a Make My Day gift of flowers, cookies and a card and they were really happy. The entire company took part in the celebration.
We could not do what we do without our incredible volunteers. Thank you Diana, Jerry and all of Advantage Converters. You are our angels!
andrea
Monday, February 20, 2012
Our work continues...
Hello Everyone and welcome to the Community Connections blog!
We are working really hard this winter....we just finished putting labels on 500 pamphlets for El Camino Hospital. It was a very big assignment and our participants did a great job. Soon we will start on our second project for the hospital.
At the BOK Horse Ranch and NCEFT in Woodside, we continue to work with the horses, clean the barns, horse rinks and do general ranch work. It's a lot of fun but hard work!
At the Boys and Girls Club in east Palo Alto we are responsible for keeping all of the after school classrooms clean. We have started working there twice a week now!
At the beginning of February we returned to the Community School of Music and Art to take Marimba and Art classes. We learn so much there-it's our fifth year of classes.
This spring promisese to be very busy as well!
Stay tuned for more updates and thanks for reading.
andrea
We are working really hard this winter....we just finished putting labels on 500 pamphlets for El Camino Hospital. It was a very big assignment and our participants did a great job. Soon we will start on our second project for the hospital.
At the BOK Horse Ranch and NCEFT in Woodside, we continue to work with the horses, clean the barns, horse rinks and do general ranch work. It's a lot of fun but hard work!
At the Boys and Girls Club in east Palo Alto we are responsible for keeping all of the after school classrooms clean. We have started working there twice a week now!
At the beginning of February we returned to the Community School of Music and Art to take Marimba and Art classes. We learn so much there-it's our fifth year of classes.
This spring promisese to be very busy as well!
Stay tuned for more updates and thanks for reading.
andrea
Wednesday, February 1, 2012
A partnership with El Camino Hospital
Hello and Welcome to the Community Connections blog!
We have great news! As of February 1 we are starting a terrific new partnership with El Camino Hospital. We have been working hard to get this volunteer work site going and now it is official.
El Camino staff members came to tour our agency and they already have several projects lined up for our Community Connections participants. We will be helping them with office work, mailings and several other projects. It will be a great way for our participants to learn about the hospital.
Tomi Ryba, the CEO of El Camino Hospital personally helped set up this partnership. "We really respect the work that Abilities United does and we want to be a part of it," she said.
Our Community Connections program continues to grow every day and we are reaching out to communities beyond our local area. It is a very exciting time for us.
Stay tuned for more updates on our developing work projects. And thanks for reading.
andrea
We have great news! As of February 1 we are starting a terrific new partnership with El Camino Hospital. We have been working hard to get this volunteer work site going and now it is official.
El Camino staff members came to tour our agency and they already have several projects lined up for our Community Connections participants. We will be helping them with office work, mailings and several other projects. It will be a great way for our participants to learn about the hospital.
Tomi Ryba, the CEO of El Camino Hospital personally helped set up this partnership. "We really respect the work that Abilities United does and we want to be a part of it," she said.
Our Community Connections program continues to grow every day and we are reaching out to communities beyond our local area. It is a very exciting time for us.
Stay tuned for more updates on our developing work projects. And thanks for reading.
andrea
Sunday, January 15, 2012
We are on You Tube!
Hello and welcome to the Community Connections blog!
As I mentioned in our last post, we filmed another episode of our television program Abilities United Presents: Community Connections with Senator Joe Simitian.
You can view the entire episode on You Tube at the following link:
http://youtu.be/DvjKfO5_2yI
In February we are going to be starting an educational series. We will be taking art and marimba classes at the Community school of Music and Art and ceramics class at the College of Adaptive Arts.Everyone learns so much in these classes and we are excited to start classes. We are also looking into several other educational opportunities.
Stay tuned for more updates!
And thanks for reading.
andrea
As I mentioned in our last post, we filmed another episode of our television program Abilities United Presents: Community Connections with Senator Joe Simitian.
You can view the entire episode on You Tube at the following link:
http://youtu.be/DvjKfO5_2yI
In February we are going to be starting an educational series. We will be taking art and marimba classes at the Community school of Music and Art and ceramics class at the College of Adaptive Arts.Everyone learns so much in these classes and we are excited to start classes. We are also looking into several other educational opportunities.
Stay tuned for more updates!
And thanks for reading.
andrea
Friday, January 6, 2012
Welcome to the New Year!
Happy New Year and welcome to the Community Connections blog!
We are starting the New Year with a lot of work out in the community. Our new partnerships, The Palo Alto Unified School District's Science Garden, The Boys and Girls Club and Deer Hollow Farm have all requested that we increase our volunteer hours. It seems they are really impressed with our work!
Next week a Facebook Executive is coming to give us a training on how to use Facebook. It will be really interesting to learn about how our participants can use the social media site to increase their interest in the community.
In early December we filmed an episode of our television program Abilities United Presents: Community Connections with Senator Joe Simitian. I will post a television schedule as soon as it is available.
Stay tuned...we have a very exciting winter planned! And thanks for reading.
andrea
We are starting the New Year with a lot of work out in the community. Our new partnerships, The Palo Alto Unified School District's Science Garden, The Boys and Girls Club and Deer Hollow Farm have all requested that we increase our volunteer hours. It seems they are really impressed with our work!
Next week a Facebook Executive is coming to give us a training on how to use Facebook. It will be really interesting to learn about how our participants can use the social media site to increase their interest in the community.
In early December we filmed an episode of our television program Abilities United Presents: Community Connections with Senator Joe Simitian. I will post a television schedule as soon as it is available.
Stay tuned...we have a very exciting winter planned! And thanks for reading.
andrea
Tuesday, December 13, 2011
A Senator, an author and an artist!
Hello Everyone and welcome to the Community Connections blog!
What a terrific day we have had. This afternoon we taped our eighth episode of our television program, Abilities United Presents: Community Connections. State Senator Joe Simitian was our first guest and he was wonderful! The Senator talked about the importance of volunteerism and how our participants are making a big impact on our community.
Claire Bohannon, an ILS participant was also a featured guest. Claire is a published author and she talked about the books she has written. She spoke very eloquently about how her Autism has really been a gift. Claire is a very talented young lady and it was terrific to showcase her work.
Terry Eagle, another ILS participant was our third guest. Terry crafts beautiful walking sticks from branches and he showed his work on camera. The walking sticks are incredible works of art and he hopes to help others with his work.
Needless to say, it was an incredible program. Our Abilities United participants have so much talent. It is time for the world to share in their gifts!
Stay tuned for a posting of scheduled air times for the program.
Thanks for reading!
andrea
What a terrific day we have had. This afternoon we taped our eighth episode of our television program, Abilities United Presents: Community Connections. State Senator Joe Simitian was our first guest and he was wonderful! The Senator talked about the importance of volunteerism and how our participants are making a big impact on our community.
Claire Bohannon, an ILS participant was also a featured guest. Claire is a published author and she talked about the books she has written. She spoke very eloquently about how her Autism has really been a gift. Claire is a very talented young lady and it was terrific to showcase her work.
Terry Eagle, another ILS participant was our third guest. Terry crafts beautiful walking sticks from branches and he showed his work on camera. The walking sticks are incredible works of art and he hopes to help others with his work.
Needless to say, it was an incredible program. Our Abilities United participants have so much talent. It is time for the world to share in their gifts!
Stay tuned for a posting of scheduled air times for the program.
Thanks for reading!
andrea
Friday, November 18, 2011
What an Awesome week!
Hello and Welcome to the Community Connections blog!
It has been quite a month so far. We are really working hard out in the community; in fact we had 91 service hours this week! At this pace, we will set a new service record for November.
At the Palo Alto Unified School District Science Garden, we are helping prepare for the winter; we harvest vegtables, plant seeds and clean the garden. We started this partnership in October and we love working there!
The Family Giving Tree in Milpitas is gearing up for the holiday season and we are right there helping them out. Our participants are helping with donations, collecting ornaments and preparing holiday gift baskets.
At the Ecumenical Hunger Project in East Palo Alto we are helping with food donations. We sort groceries, make food baskets and stock shelves with groceries. Our participants love helping out with holiday preparations.
As well as working in the community, we also continue our art and music classes at the Community School of Music and Art. The Los Altos Town Crier newspaper even came and photographed us for an article.
Next month we will film our television program Abilities United Presents: Community Connections. We filmed two field shoots this month; one at Deer Hollow Farm and one at the Boys and Girls Club of East Palo Alto. We are doing such a great job at these sites that we have been asked to increase our work days.
After all of this hard work, everyone deserves a great Thanksgiving vacation. On Wednesday, November 23rd we will celebrate with a Thanksgiving Feast.
Enjoy your holiday and thanks for reading!
andrea
It has been quite a month so far. We are really working hard out in the community; in fact we had 91 service hours this week! At this pace, we will set a new service record for November.
At the Palo Alto Unified School District Science Garden, we are helping prepare for the winter; we harvest vegtables, plant seeds and clean the garden. We started this partnership in October and we love working there!
The Family Giving Tree in Milpitas is gearing up for the holiday season and we are right there helping them out. Our participants are helping with donations, collecting ornaments and preparing holiday gift baskets.
At the Ecumenical Hunger Project in East Palo Alto we are helping with food donations. We sort groceries, make food baskets and stock shelves with groceries. Our participants love helping out with holiday preparations.
As well as working in the community, we also continue our art and music classes at the Community School of Music and Art. The Los Altos Town Crier newspaper even came and photographed us for an article.
Next month we will film our television program Abilities United Presents: Community Connections. We filmed two field shoots this month; one at Deer Hollow Farm and one at the Boys and Girls Club of East Palo Alto. We are doing such a great job at these sites that we have been asked to increase our work days.
After all of this hard work, everyone deserves a great Thanksgiving vacation. On Wednesday, November 23rd we will celebrate with a Thanksgiving Feast.
Enjoy your holiday and thanks for reading!
andrea
Friday, October 28, 2011
A new record!
Hello and Welcome to the Community Connections blog!
Wow! We have reached a new record in the Community Connections department. This week we provided a record 105 service hours to the community. This is an amazing feet-it is the equivalent of two full time positions helping in the community. Thank you to all of our participants for this accomplishment. It took a lot of persistence and hard work. Way to Go!
We also started a new partnership this week. Every thursday we are volunteering at the Palo Alto Unified School District's Science Garden. It's a great opportunity for us because not only are we helping out in the garden, we are learning all about science. The garden provides materials for classrooms in Palo Alto. We think this will be a great work site and are delighted to help out.
On Friday, October 28, the Adult Day Program held their annual Halloween dance. It was a huge success with a DJ, great food and lots of scary costumes.
Stay tuned for more excitement!
Thanks for reading.
andrea
Wow! We have reached a new record in the Community Connections department. This week we provided a record 105 service hours to the community. This is an amazing feet-it is the equivalent of two full time positions helping in the community. Thank you to all of our participants for this accomplishment. It took a lot of persistence and hard work. Way to Go!
We also started a new partnership this week. Every thursday we are volunteering at the Palo Alto Unified School District's Science Garden. It's a great opportunity for us because not only are we helping out in the garden, we are learning all about science. The garden provides materials for classrooms in Palo Alto. We think this will be a great work site and are delighted to help out.
On Friday, October 28, the Adult Day Program held their annual Halloween dance. It was a huge success with a DJ, great food and lots of scary costumes.
Stay tuned for more excitement!
Thanks for reading.
andrea
Thursday, October 13, 2011
What a camping trip!
Hello and Welcome to the Abilities United Community Connections blog.
They’ve done it again! Abilities United participants, instructors and family members once again braved the elements and went camping at Foothill Park last week. This was the sixth camping trip and it was quite a success.
Participants and staff planned, shopped and prepared all of the meals; including the S’mores! The weather was perfect and everyone had a blast eating out in the open by the campfire.
According to participants, this was the most activity-filled trips to date. Hikes, yoga classes, tae kwon doe, community safety classes, photography, bike buds and scavenger hunts were just a few of the activities.
In all, over sixty people participated in this hugely successful event. After having so much fun, preparations are already underway for next year’s event.
Stay tuned!
And thanks to Drew Thorne for helping with this blog post!
andrea
Tuesday, September 27, 2011
A new partnership
Hello and Welcome to the Community Connections blog!
It has been a very busy month for the Community Connections program. In mid September we started a new partnership with the Boys and Girls Club of the Peninsula. We will be working at one of their sites in East Palo Alto, helping the teachers prepare the classrooms for the after school programs. We will be working there every Wednesday. They even made us our own name badges with the Abilities United logo on it! It should be a really interesting work site and we are all very excited to help them out.
We are also getting ready to take classes at Foothill College. Several of our participants will be taking a class at the college. They applied to the program and were accepted so it should be a true learning experience.
Stayed tuned for more upcoming events! It promises to be a terrific Fall!
andrea
It has been a very busy month for the Community Connections program. In mid September we started a new partnership with the Boys and Girls Club of the Peninsula. We will be working at one of their sites in East Palo Alto, helping the teachers prepare the classrooms for the after school programs. We will be working there every Wednesday. They even made us our own name badges with the Abilities United logo on it! It should be a really interesting work site and we are all very excited to help them out.
We are also getting ready to take classes at Foothill College. Several of our participants will be taking a class at the college. They applied to the program and were accepted so it should be a true learning experience.
Stayed tuned for more upcoming events! It promises to be a terrific Fall!
andrea
Thursday, September 8, 2011
Three New Vans !
Hello Everyone!
Yea! The Community Connections program has three beautiful new vans. The vans were delivered on Wednesday, September 7 and they are wonderful!
Each van is equipped with a wheelchair lift and seats at least 6 participants. This will make it so much easier for our participants to get to their work sites.
The ribbon cutting ceremony was so much fun and there was a lot of celebration. We want to thank our donors; The San Jose Mercury Wishbook Fund Inc., and their generous readers, HEDCO Foundation and the Bothin Foundation.
Thank you to everyone who participated. It will really help our program move into the future.
Keep reading!
andrea
Yea! The Community Connections program has three beautiful new vans. The vans were delivered on Wednesday, September 7 and they are wonderful!
Each van is equipped with a wheelchair lift and seats at least 6 participants. This will make it so much easier for our participants to get to their work sites.
The ribbon cutting ceremony was so much fun and there was a lot of celebration. We want to thank our donors; The San Jose Mercury Wishbook Fund Inc., and their generous readers, HEDCO Foundation and the Bothin Foundation.
Thank you to everyone who participated. It will really help our program move into the future.
Keep reading!
andrea
Tuesday, August 30, 2011
The Vans are coming!
Hello and welcome to the Community Connections blog!
We have great news! Last spring our program received three new vans to transport our participants to their volunteer work sites. It took awhile to customize the vans to accommodate our participants, but they are finally ready.
The vans will hopefully be delivered to our program the week of September 7. We are planning a big event to celebrate the wonderful donation. Everyone is invited to take part in the celebration at the Abilities United Admin Building on Wed Sept 7 at 2:30 PM.
Hope to see you there!
Thanks for reading.
andrea
We have great news! Last spring our program received three new vans to transport our participants to their volunteer work sites. It took awhile to customize the vans to accommodate our participants, but they are finally ready.
The vans will hopefully be delivered to our program the week of September 7. We are planning a big event to celebrate the wonderful donation. Everyone is invited to take part in the celebration at the Abilities United Admin Building on Wed Sept 7 at 2:30 PM.
Hope to see you there!
Thanks for reading.
andrea
Wednesday, August 17, 2011
Gearing up for Fall!
Hello and welcome to the Community Connections blog.
We are working really hard and getting ready for our fall schedule. In September, we will return to our work at the Palo Alto Zoo and Menlo College (they were both on hiatus for the summer). Our participants will also start their forth year of classes at the Community School of Music and Art. We will be taking Marimba classes as well as the art classes.
This month we put our latest television production of Abilities United Presents: Community Connections on to You Tube. You can view the program by following the attached link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M4MlyuthcaE
The program features the Mayor of Palo Alto, Sid Espinosa and two Abilities United participants. We also show videos of our work out in the community.
In our educational series, the Red Cross will be presenting a lecture on Emergency Preparedness to our participants.
Another fall event is our Agency wide Aquathon, to take place on Saturday September 10. It should be a really fun event again this year.
Keep reading for the latest news on all of our events. And thanks for reading!
Andrea
We are working really hard and getting ready for our fall schedule. In September, we will return to our work at the Palo Alto Zoo and Menlo College (they were both on hiatus for the summer). Our participants will also start their forth year of classes at the Community School of Music and Art. We will be taking Marimba classes as well as the art classes.
This month we put our latest television production of Abilities United Presents: Community Connections on to You Tube. You can view the program by following the attached link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M4MlyuthcaE
The program features the Mayor of Palo Alto, Sid Espinosa and two Abilities United participants. We also show videos of our work out in the community.
In our educational series, the Red Cross will be presenting a lecture on Emergency Preparedness to our participants.
Another fall event is our Agency wide Aquathon, to take place on Saturday September 10. It should be a really fun event again this year.
Keep reading for the latest news on all of our events. And thanks for reading!
Andrea
Wednesday, August 3, 2011
500 Recorders !
Hello Everyone and Welcome to the Community Connections blog.
August has been a very productive month. We took on a gigantic project at the Community School of Music and Art. Each summer, we help clean and organize their musical instruments. It's a month long project because we have 500 recorders to clean!
Our participants take the instruments apart, wash them in bleach and re-assemble them. Then they set up a very efficient production line.
"We rely so much on the Abilities United participants," notes CSMA staff member Susan McInnis. "We wouldn't be able to do this project without their help. We are forever grateful!"
In total, we have cleaned over 1500 recorders! What an accomplishment!
Dr. Earl Whetstone came and gave a dental presentation in July and in mid-August we will tour Moffet Air Base in Mountain View as part of our educational program. We are learning so much in these educational lectures.
This fall promises to be a very busy time. Keep reading for the latest info on all of our events.
Thanks for reading.
Andrea
August has been a very productive month. We took on a gigantic project at the Community School of Music and Art. Each summer, we help clean and organize their musical instruments. It's a month long project because we have 500 recorders to clean!
Our participants take the instruments apart, wash them in bleach and re-assemble them. Then they set up a very efficient production line.
"We rely so much on the Abilities United participants," notes CSMA staff member Susan McInnis. "We wouldn't be able to do this project without their help. We are forever grateful!"
In total, we have cleaned over 1500 recorders! What an accomplishment!
Dr. Earl Whetstone came and gave a dental presentation in July and in mid-August we will tour Moffet Air Base in Mountain View as part of our educational program. We are learning so much in these educational lectures.
This fall promises to be a very busy time. Keep reading for the latest info on all of our events.
Thanks for reading.
Andrea
Thursday, July 21, 2011
We are famous!
Hello Everyone and welcome to the Community Connections blog!
Last week I mentioned that we filmed the next episode of our television program Abilities United Presents: Community Connections.
In the program we featured two field shoots; one at Hiller Aviation Museum in Redwood City and the other at Foothill Park in Palo Alto. Both segments turned out really well and highlight all of the terrific work our participants are doing out in the community.
We interviewed some of the staff at each location and it was so inspiring to see our participants add so much to the community.
To follow are the links to view the field shoots on You Tube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7U5qWoR1wFc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3___yRUpJY
Please keep watching and thanks for the support.
andrea
Last week I mentioned that we filmed the next episode of our television program Abilities United Presents: Community Connections.
In the program we featured two field shoots; one at Hiller Aviation Museum in Redwood City and the other at Foothill Park in Palo Alto. Both segments turned out really well and highlight all of the terrific work our participants are doing out in the community.
We interviewed some of the staff at each location and it was so inspiring to see our participants add so much to the community.
To follow are the links to view the field shoots on You Tube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7U5qWoR1wFc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3___yRUpJY
Please keep watching and thanks for the support.
andrea
Sunday, July 10, 2011
Lights ! Camera ! Action !
Hello and welcome to the Community Connections blog.
What an exciting week we are having! Tuesday afternoon we filmed another episode of our television program: Abilities United Presents: Community Connections. It was a huge success. Sid Espinosa, the Mayor of Palo Alto, was our first guest and he talked at length about the incredible impact our participants have had on the community. He thanked us several times and said that our volunteer work is crucial to the growth of the community.
Julie Paulson, an Independent Living Skill participant, was another terrific guest. Julie talked about growing up in Palo Alto, being an employee at Safeway, her volunteer work with Assemblyman Jim Bealle and all of the other great programs she is involved in.
Nick Golick, an Employment Services participant, showed two pieces of his original art work and talked about how he became so creative. His pieces showed off his incredible talent and great eye for color.
In between guests, we showed two field shoots; one from Hiller Aviation Museum and the other from Foothill Park. The segments showed all of the work we are doing out in the community. The videos will be posted on You Tube.
It was an incredible show and we are excited to show it to the public. It will air on the Media Center channel as well as in South San Francisco and San Jose. More details to come.
Thanks for reading!
andrea
What an exciting week we are having! Tuesday afternoon we filmed another episode of our television program: Abilities United Presents: Community Connections. It was a huge success. Sid Espinosa, the Mayor of Palo Alto, was our first guest and he talked at length about the incredible impact our participants have had on the community. He thanked us several times and said that our volunteer work is crucial to the growth of the community.
Julie Paulson, an Independent Living Skill participant, was another terrific guest. Julie talked about growing up in Palo Alto, being an employee at Safeway, her volunteer work with Assemblyman Jim Bealle and all of the other great programs she is involved in.
Nick Golick, an Employment Services participant, showed two pieces of his original art work and talked about how he became so creative. His pieces showed off his incredible talent and great eye for color.
In between guests, we showed two field shoots; one from Hiller Aviation Museum and the other from Foothill Park. The segments showed all of the work we are doing out in the community. The videos will be posted on You Tube.
It was an incredible show and we are excited to show it to the public. It will air on the Media Center channel as well as in South San Francisco and San Jose. More details to come.
Thanks for reading!
andrea
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