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Colonial Farm Volunteers Win Volunteer of the Year Award

Annual Greater McLean Chamber of Commerce Award Winners

The Greater McLean Chamber of Commerce annually  honors community and business leaders for their outstanding service to McLean. Seventeen men and women, our neighbors, received awards in a recent ceremony for their amazing work. McLean Patch is profiling each winner.

Community Volunteers of the Year : Claude Moore Colonial Farm Volunteers

The Claude Moore Colonial Farm has had a volunteer program since before the Farm opened to the public, in May of 1973.  Between 1973 and 1981, they were an asset to the Farm, but when it became a privately operated program in 1981 was when the volunteers really kicked in. 

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For the past thirty years, volunteers have created the infrastructure, run the programs, raised money, initiated programs, developed products and have kept the Farm running. 

The Farm has hundreds of volunteers—without them, programs such as the 18th century Market Fairs, which are held three times a year, would not be functional.  It takes around 300 of them to get that program alone running and every single volunteer is a crucial part of the Claude Moore Colonial Farm. 

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