Chipping In to Rebuild Catskill Veteran’ Outreach Center Stamford NY
“We know that people who have money can get anything done,” Hayes said. “This is a small community where we try to help out the people who need it.”
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Raymond Hayes was flattening gravel Sunday in the parking lot of the Catskill Veterans’ Outreach Center in Stamford, a project he volunteered three days to complete with machinery and materials donated by local businesses.
Hayes and Sabrina Caputo run Caputo Excavating in South Kortright. Hayes said the pair has volunteered to pave a driveway for someone in need each year for about three years. He credited A&R General Trucking and Eklund Farm Machinery for lending equipment and Lasting Impression Landscapes for gravel and materials, saying they have contributed to past projects.
“We know that people who have money can get anything done,” Hayes said. “This is a small community where we try to help out the people who need it.”
Brad Pick, head of outreach at the center, had seen Hayes working on the Stamford Veteran’s Hall parking lot last year and asked if he could do the job this fall. The center was formerly the historic Delaware Inn and had been closed for more than five years before being refurbished by the Catskill Watershed Corporation, he said.
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