Approximately 50 nonprofit and community organizations will be available to provide information on volunteering opportunities. A panel of volunteer experts will be on hand to provide key points and answer audience questions on volunteering.
John Crowe recently was appointed president and CEO of Saint-Gobain Corp., a company with ties to Auburn, where it employs many people at its business unit Vetrotech. He also will serve in the same capacity at CertainTeed Corp., the largest North American subsidiary of Saint-Gobain.
Saint-Gobain is one of the the world's largest building materials company, as well as a global leader in the production of high-performance materials and glass containers.
For 30 years, Crowe has served in a wide range of leadership positions within Saint-Gobain group, including president of the Saint-Gobain Performance Plastics and Saint-Gobain Crystals. He most recently served as president of Saint-Gobain's global abrasives business, with responsibility for more than 13,000 employees and 75 manufacturing facilities in 24 countries.
In Washington State, Saint-Gobain has nearly 700 employees; overall the company employs 19,000 people in 265 locations across the United States and Canada.
• Proving once again its commitment to helping Washington homeowners avoid foreclosure, the Attorney General's Office this week provided an additional $550,000 to provide free housing counseling to distressed homeowners.
"Housing counselors are lifelines for borrowers on the brink of losing their homes," McKenna said. "The work of these counselors is important because preventing foreclosures – and stabilizing home values – is key to helping kick-start our economy."
McKenna spoke from the offices of the Homeownership Resource Center in Shoreline, where thousands of calls come in every month from borrowers struggling to keep their homes.
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