The Caldwells Patch Staff Volunteers in Community

To celebrate their company's 100th site launch, members of The Caldwells Patch staff traded their laptops for brooms, mops and dusters on Tuesday.

As Patch employees from across the country donated time to their communities, Mike Pignataro, editor of the Caldwells site, Advertising Representative Tim Drummond and Regional Editor Elizabeth Moore volunteered at the Caldwell Fire Department and the First Presbyterian Church at Caldwell.

The trio swept and washed the floor of the fire department as well as cleaned out classrooms in the education wing of the church.

The Caldwell Fire Department has approximately 45 active members and recently began a junior firemen's auxiliary program. For more information, call 973-226-1890.

First Presbyterian has an accredited nursery school for 3- and 4-year-olds. There is also a Sunday school program as part of its Christian education program. For more information, call 973-228-0310 or visit the church's website.

Patch, which has sponsored youth recreation teams and a concert at the West Caldwell Gazebo this summer, participates in several company-wide service days each year in the communities its sites cover. The Caldwells Patch assisted the Caldwell Library in wrapping up the Big Read program during the spring.