MLK Center

(from left) Jonathan Schmidt, Tony Harland and Madalynn Baez work in a garden box outside the Martin Luther King Jr. Community Center in Rock Island on Thursday, Sept. 15, during United Way Quad Cities’ Day of Caring events.

Day of Caring volunteer: ‘Good to help people who need our support’

They painted. They cleaned walls. They fixed up garden boxes. And they did a dozen other jobs in the Quad Cities area. Around 1,300 volunteers spent much of Thursday, Sept. 15, doing good work at various sites across the bistate…