Volunteers help upgrade Ann’s Place facility

A host of volunteers and donors made significant upgrades to the large community meeting room at Ann’s Place, a nonprofit that serves people facing cancer in the greater Danbury area.

The Rotary Clubs of Danbury, Ridgefield and Rotary District 7980 provided the seed funds of $10,000 to get the project started. Labor and support were donated by H&Y Construction (Brookfield), Paul Dinto Electrical Contractors (Middlebury), Doyle Coffin Architecture (Ridgefield) and Seaman Mechanical Services (Danbury).

The upgrades include 130 new conference room chairs, a high-quality sound system and construction of a new privacy wall, which separates a noisy entrance area from the main room.

Other volunteers who helped with the upgrades included members of the Rotary Clubs of Ridgefield and Danbury, who unpacked and setup chairs and built the dollies; Marc Huberman and John Krieger, who installed the sound system; and Colman Weir, Mike Keegan and Boehringer Ingelheim employees, who painted after the construction was finished.