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"About a thousand volunteers participated in a day of service Thursday to help the Freret neighborhood.The volunteers were with Ingram Micro, a technology company that is hosting a conference in town.\"We are here to work but we also wanted to make sure we leave any town we go to better than when we came in,\" said Paul Bay, president of Ingram Micro.The volunteers were dispatched to about 30 sites in the Freret neighborhood.\u201CThey are helping to do planting and painting seniors' yards. \u00A0At the playground they are painting the concession stand and weed eating at the cemetery,\" said Eva Sohl with the Freret Neighborhood Center.More than $2 million was raised earlier this week for dozens of nonprofits across the city for the Give NOLA campaign."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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