Spreading Holiday Cheer!

Tuesday, November 24, 2009 by Katie Veatch
The holiday season is my favorite time of the year.  But since I love Thanksgiving too, every year I wait patiently until Black Friday to start listening to Christmas music, watching my favorite holiday movies, and putting up decorations.  I’m looking forward to Thanksgiving, but come Friday, the holiday festivities kick into high gear!!  My all-time favorite Christmas movie (and one of my all-time favorite movies in general) is It’s a Wonderful Life.  I’ve seen it more times than I can count, and I think I could probably recite most of the lines.  
See that lovely Christmas tree in the picture above?  Looking at it makes me wonder, what did they do with that tree after Christmas was over?  As much as I love the holiday season, the clean-up afterwards can be quite a pain.  If only the Bailey’s had the Orr Fellow Tree Luggers to come to their rescue!  


Working at Angie’s List I’ve learned that you can find reliable people to help you with just about anything to get you through the holidays, from decorating to party planning.  And after all the chaos dies down, the Tree Luggers are there to help Indianapolis residents with the clean up.  For the Orr Fellowship's annual fundraiser, current Fellows (our Tree Luggers) will come and pick up your Christmas tree and take it to a nearby Indy Parks location to be recycled.  We will pick up trees from several neighborhoods in and around Indianapolis for four consecutive Saturdays starting on January 2nd.  The program is a fundraiser for the Fellowship, local churches, and local charitable organizations.  The suggested donation is $20, and all donations are 100 % tax deductable.  Click here to find out more information and schedule your tree pick-up!

Tree Luggers is a great example of how Orr Fellows work together outside of our various full-time jobs in Indiana. As the Finance champions, Ty and I are heading up this year’s program, but every Orr Fellow has a different job and is involved in the organization, planning, and execution of the fundraiser.  Tree Luggers gives us a chance to utilize our ambition and talent and apply what we have learned so far in the Fellowship and working in our respective high growth start-ups.  Being able to take part in opportunities such as this one truly shows the “entrepreneurial” part of the Governor Bob Orr Indiana Entrepreneurial Fellowship and allows us to give back and get involved with the Indianapolis community.  


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