Comcast Cares Day 2018 - Marklund Wasmond Center- 3:48
Marklund Wasmond Center
Posted May 18, 2018
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Marklund is a nonprofit organization that serves infants, children, teens and adults with serious and profound developmental disabilities and special healthcare needs. Comcast volunteers showed their support by painting, building planter boxes, fixing up resident bedrooms, and general cleaning at the facility.
Hosted by: Paul LisnekProduced by: Greater Chicago Newsmakers Team
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