MILLSBORO — A group of volunteers led by Mountaire Farms transformed the Boys and Girls Club of Oak Orchard and the Growing Tree Preschool one weekend recently, including new bathrooms, new flooring, new carpeting, new paint and new playhouses.

Mountaire Farms had planned to overhaul the pre-school and the main building last spring, but COVID had other plans for the company’s service project. Instead, they were able to do smaller projects last summer and fall such as replacing the mulch at the pre-school and purchasing a new air hockey and foosball game for the main club. With employees now getting vaccinated, Mountaire planned a weekend to finish the project with about 40 volunteers from the company as well as a handful from the Long Neck Sunrise Rotary Club,

Contractors for a Cause, Chuck Coleman and Sea Light Exteriors, and donated paint supplies from Sherman Williams of Ocean View.

Through the company’s Mountaire Cares program, employees volunteer on worthwhile service projects at least once a quarter. Previous projects have included partnering with Habitat for Humanity in Selbyville and sprucing up homeowners’ properties near the company’s processing plant in town.

This project included fresh paint inside each facility, new bathrooms at the preschool, new flooring at both facilities, new ceiling tiles at the main building, and lots of other little side jobs that help transform the space. Mountaire paid for all the projects including some skilled contractor labor.