Over the past three years, donors and listeners around the region gifted Apple Country Radio with over 50 cartons of CDs and vinyl! Those cartons have been stored at the former Gavitt offices, awaiting transport to the storage room above our new studio space at the Brookfield Town Hall. On Thursday, October 9, at 11am, a group of volunteers arrived in a white van from Jillian Carty’s CAD class ready to help! These students were eager to work and superbly organized. They loaded a truck trailer with two loads of those cartons as well as studio equipment and supplies with maximum efficiency, met that trailer when it arrived down the block at the Town Hall, and formed a human chain to get those very heavy cartons up the Town Hall’s Grand Staircase and from there up a very steep and narrow staircase to the storage room. The bulk of that work was completed in a little over an hour! Several of them also volunteered to come back and help complete the move later this month.

Our gratitude goes out to each and every one of those students and their instructor, Jillian Carty, who recruited and organized those volunteers, as well as the students themselves, who took time to pose for a photo on the Grand Staircase prior to returning to school—proof that Greater Brookfield’s young people are a community-minded generation who deserve our support!

From top step, left to right: Aiden Gambon, Christian Mboudeau; Vincent LebBeau, Dariel Correa, Michael Cutler, Jaden Jenkins; Hunter Clark, Henry Therrien, Maxwell Sealy; Casey Michener; Sofia Linden.