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Cleveland Browns Fans in Colorado Give Back
Colorado Springs, CO chapter of Browns Backers Worldwide volunteer to help build beds for charity.
As a part of the Cleveland Browns Give Back initiative and Cleveland Browns Backers Worldwide, the Pikes Peak Browns Backers club, located in Colorado Springs, CO, volunteered their time and talents on Saturday, January 26, 2019 to build bunk beds for the Sleep in Heavenly Peace Colorado Springs chapter of the nationwide non-profit organization.
The materials were purchased with a Cleveland Browns Foundation grant. The build will provide ten bunk beds for twenty children that don't have their own bed to sleep in.
Saturday was the first “Build Day” in Colorado Springs. Denny Butts, a Pikes Peak Browns Backers member and the Sleep In Heavenly Peace chapter president is pleased with the turnout and how the build went.
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Forty volunteers manned ten stations at the build. For four hours they cut, sanded, hammered, drilled, screwed and stained wood to produce enough finished parts to assemble ten bunk beds for twenty children.
Butts already has plans for future Colorado Springs bed builds. As for the Pikes Peak Browns Backers, they are excited about the upcoming NFL season. You can find them watching the NFL draft and every Cleveland Browns football game at Old Chicago Academy at 4110 N. Academy Blvd in Colorado Springs.