Patch Gives Back to Celebrate 100 Sites

As part of our tradition with Patch, we like to help the local community by donating our time. Our editorial team likes to join up to give a little extra help in our immediate towns. In Madison, three of us came together on May Day to help beautify the borough. If you click on the link in the previous sentence, you'll probably notice yours truly along with Summit Patch Editor Heather Collura and Chatham Patch Editor Zach Subar spreading mulch on Main Street.

Keeping in this tradition, I joined two other Patch editors in donating time at Summit's Reeves-Reed Aboreteum Tuesday afternoon for a few hours of community service to mark a huge milestone in Patch history.

Aug. 17 brought the launch of the 100th Patch site when Morristown Patch went live at midnight. In true Patch fashion, the editors celebrated by giving our time to a local organization or charity for the day.

This time, along with Collura, I was joined by Union County Regional Editor David Chmiel at Reeves-Reed for a few hours of planting trees!

The three of us planted somewhere between 50-60 red oak trees, which happens to be the New Jersey State Tree! It was incredible to think that sometimes giving back can be planting one tree. But in just four short hours, we planted dozens of baby trees, dirtying our Patch T-shirts in the process of giving us the satisfaction of a job well done.

At Patch, we pledge to give at least five days to volunteering in the communities we serve. I have done so three times already this year, and we're always looking for where the next place we can get together and help out will be.

So, if you think your organization could use a hand from Patch, let me know and it just might be the place we head for our next volunteer day!