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		<title>Late Night Customer Service in Dacula</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[A late night phone call to Home Depot store 161 in Dacula, Ga., connected a frantic customer with Home Depot associates who did what they could to help him out.]]></description>
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		<title>Associate Builds Prop for Local Students&#8217; Lesson on Careers</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Apr 2010 17:01:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Home Depot Associate Greg from Store 6554 in Greenville, Texas lends a helping hand to a kindergarten teacher and her students.]]></description>
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		<title>New England Stores Stayed Open during Floods</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Apr 2010 16:39:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Eight Home Depot stores stayed open 24 hours during the New England floods last month to meet product shipments and serve customers. ]]></description>
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		<title>Team Depot Provides Cleanup Help in High Point</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Home Depot's volunteer associate workforce, Team Depot, sprang into action to support the High Point, NC community after a tornado damaged hundreds of homes on March 28th.]]></description>
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		<title>Home Depot: Orange and Proud!</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Apr 2010 20:46:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Kelly Caffarelli, President of The Home Depot Foundation, recently spent some time meeting Home Depot store associates in the New York City area. Below is a post borrowed from her blog post, "Hiring the “Disabled”- Who’s Really being Helped?” on the Foundation’s Website.]]></description>
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		<title>A Bachelor Party, Home Depot Style</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Mar 2010 22:46:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Store 1519 in Littleton, Colo., hosted a home improvement-themed bachelor party for a DIY-challenged groom-to-be.]]></description>
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		<title>Coast-to-Coast Effort Saves Local Business from Flooding</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Mar 2010 13:26:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Home Depot associates in California and Massachusetts teamed up last week to help a customer battling the massive flooding in New England. Rising waters were threatening to destroy his business as each minute passed.]]></description>
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		<title>Georgia Store Helped 443 Kids build Pinewood Derby Cars</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Mar 2010 17:01:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Home Depot Store 147 in Buford, Ga., teamed up recently with the local Awana Club and Cub Scout parents for a fun-filled Derby Day at the Depot. A team of Home Depot associates helped the crowd of 443 kids build their very own Pinewood Derby cars. ]]></description>
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		<title>Erie Pa. Store Helps a Neighbor find Shelter from the Cold</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Mar 2010 16:40:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When associates at Home Depot store 4124 in Erie, Pa., learned that a driver for local transit company wanted to get some supplies to build one of his older passengers a shelter, similar to the ones built for the local school kids, they knew there must be more to this project.]]></description>
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		<title>Neither Snow nor Sleet nor Dark of Night&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://orangeblooded.net/OB/2010/02/09/neither-snow-nor-sleet-nor-dark-of-night/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Feb 2010 23:52:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Donald from Home Depot Store 3610 in Winston-Salem helped a customer in need by going the extra mile on a cold, wet January morning.]]></description>
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