Ray enjoys country music and sings and plays keyboards at his church when he is not working as part of an assembly team at Eggleston’s Business Fulfillment Center.
Author: Eggleston Marketing
Bobby enjoys working on cars at Eggleston’s Automotive Center and takes pride in getting the vehicles clean and ready for our auctions. The auctions proceeds help fund our many programs.
Angelica does quality control. She loves reading, writing and doing puzzles and believes everyone is good at something.
Linen Services employee Andrew Statz came to Hampton Roads when his dad was transferred here in the Navy. Beside his work sorting, folding and pressing linens Andrew also is an active participant in Special Olympics.
Volunteers from the U.S. Navy Commander Second Fleet helped Eggleston with renovations as part of National Disability Employment Awareness Month.
The volunteers finished about 85 percent of the interior paint priming in the 13,000 square foot work space at Military Highway, using over 30 gallons of paint. The efforts were coordinated by LN1 Patrice Washington, who had learned about NISH and was anxious to find and help a local organization that assisted people with disabilities.
“This was an opportunity to do something great for an organization that does so much to help people with disabilities,” said Senior Chief Fire Controlman (SW) Will Grimm. “It feels good knowing that our improvements will make a huge difference in the lives of those that work there.”
Volunteers included Krystal Simons, Alejandro Ubiera, Carlos Watson, William Hayes, L.A. Lopez, AG3 Baker, Diana Stacy, Jesus Garcia, James Green, William Grimm, Jason Hirsch, Michael Lee, Jeremy Centeno, Andrew Boyance, Terrell McClain, Kyle Newman, Eric Garst, Christopher Jackson, Ryan Quick, Edith Harrison and Tamisha Townsend.
As part of National Disability Employment Awareness month, associates Mary Beth Donnelly, Andrew Statz and Betsy Richardson took questions from callers and talked about their jobs, families and friends.The grant will help build a new Eggleston facility on Military Highway in Norfolk that will provide jobs for people with disabilities. The four-acre property at the site of the former Conoly Phillips Lincoln Mercury auto dealership includes three buildings that will house Eggleston’s mail processing, document conversion and shredding services as well as its custom embroidery service. The expansion, which should be complete in 2011, will provide up to 100 jobs for disabled workers.
The Hampton Roads Community Foundation grant will help renovate the buildings for people with physical and intellectual disabilities. The buildings will feature natural lighting, work spaces that accommodate wheel chairs and modified bathrooms.
The new center will offer “challenging and stimulating work that a wide variety of our employees can do and work which offers them personal growth and a career path in some instances,” says Paul Atkinson, Eggleston CEO. In addition to providing jobs for existing Eggleston clients, the new center will help other people with disabilities “who will be coming into a system that is already strained and struggling to find them work.”