Northstar Center Residents Participate In
Annual Clean Up Day
Written By Shirley Holmberg, Northstar Center
aluminum cans on Saturday and Sunday in their effort to assist in the Annual Clean Up Day.
Top Picture: Northstar Residents Brian Martinez, Herman Kudralook contributed to the Annual Clean Up Day effort. Right Picture: Residents Brian Martinez, Austin Warnke, George Alurac, Christopher Chandler, George Kudralook, and Bryan Joseph participate in a treat for their most welcome contribution to the Annual Clean Up Day effort.
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he residents of the Northstar Center recently completed Community Work Service for two annual events in the greater Fairbanks area. The residents led by CWS Coordinator Shirley Holmberg and by Rotary Club member/Satterberg Law Office employees Caroline Olguin and Bill Satterberg registered runners and swept gravel
from approximately one mile of the race route. Nine hundred and fifty people participated in the Chena River Run. Another annual event was Clean Up Day. The yearly effort to pick up the trash around Fairbanks that accumulated over the winter. Seven residents and CWS Coordinator Holmberg picked up thirty eight bags of trash and two bags of
Due to the inclement weather – snow falling and unseasonably cold temperatures, the Clean Up Day effort was extended throughout the week. Residents that helped in the effort felt good about the work that they were doing because it was part of a larger important effort in the Community of Fairbanks. Resident Dominick Capobianco said, “Alaska is beautiful, helping to make it beautiful, makes me feel beautiful inside.” The residents at the Northstar Center continue to contribute to the community of Fairbanks through their Community Work Service Program.
BI Races through the 35th BolderBoulder 10K
Written By Alisa Jeffery, BI Incorporated
Folsom Field. Racers of all ages and abilities, many wearing crazy or thematic costumes, were cheered along the route by locals, bands and dance troops.
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he 35th annual BolderBoulder 10k race was held on Memorial Day, May 27, 2013. 48,741 registered racers participated in the event this year, including more than 20 BI Incorporated GEO Community Services
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employees and family members as part of the Boulder Business Challenge. One of the largest 10k races in the nation, the course starts in the middle of the city and finishes at the University of Colorado’s
Neighborhood residents along the route participated in the festivities with viewing parties in their yards or sharing refreshments of beer, bacon, or syrup “shots.” Others offered racers a chance to cool off, spraying the masses with water hoses or even taking turns on a slip n’ slide. After completing the course together, the BI team met in the stands to celebrate and to support the rest of the runners as they crossed the finish line.