NEW HAVEN, Conn. – Student-athletes from several teams at Southern Connecticut State University will participate in the eighth annual Comcast Cares Day on Saturday, April 25 at 9 a.m. at Edgewood Park in New Haven. This event, which corresponds with the NCAA Division II community engagement initiative, will allow SCSU student-athletes to assist with the beautification of one of the finest parks in the state. The Owls will join more than 4,300 Comcast employees and their families in cleanup efforts across over 50 different sites in New England. Members of the Owls' field hockey, gymnastics, men's swimming and diving, women's basketball, women's cross country/track and field and women's swimming and diving teams are slated to be on hand to lend support to an outstanding cause.
Since the first Comcast Cares Day took place in 2001, 170,000 volunteers have devoted over 1 million hours of service to communities across the country. On Saturday, 50,000 additional volunteers are expected to donate another 300,000 hours of service at more than 500 projects in 39 states and the District of Columbia, bringing the total service hours during all Comcast Cares Days to more than 1.3 million. Comcast Cares Day is one way that Comcast helps to power dreams and demonstrate a year-round commitment to making a difference in the communities it serves.
In Connecticut, Comcast volunteers will also be working at the following sites:
- Burns Elementary School in Hartford – install the City's first “Born Learning Trail”
- Katie Blair House in Norwich– painting and outside landscaping
- Camp Ingersoll in Portland - outdoor landscaping, rebuilding and painting
- French Memorial Park in Seymour – landscaping, painting, and refurbishing park's baseball diamond
Comcast serves more than 550,000 customers in 83 Connecticut communities and employs 1,300 individuals in the state.
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Comcast Corporation (Nasdaq: CMCSA, CMCSK) (www.comcast.com) is the nation's leading provider of entertainment, information and communication products and services. With 24.2 million cable customers, 14.9 million high-speed Internet customers, and 6.5 million Comcast Digital Voice customers, Comcast is principally involved in the development, management and operation of cable systems and in the delivery of programming content.
Comcast's content networks and investments include E! Entertainment Television, Style Network, Golf Channel, VERSUS, G4, PBS KIDS Sprout, TV One, ten sports networks operated by Comcast Sports Group and Comcast Interactive Media, which develops and operates Comcast's Internet businesses, including Comcast.net (www.comcast.net). Comcast also has a majority ownership in Comcast-Spectacor, whose major holdings include the Philadelphia Flyers NHL hockey team, the Philadelphia 76ers NBA basketball team and two large multipurpose arenas in Philadelphia.
