The students and teachers of J.N. Ervin Elementary will immediately notice several improvements to their campus when they come back from the summer break.
More than 50 residents and employees of the pharmaceutical company AbbVie volunteered on Wednesday morning to beautify the school and add resources to the library.
“For AbbVie, it is the core principle of why we exist: to serve our communities that we support,” AbbVie General Manager Lisa Peiser said. “It is inspiring. It motivates us to do more. And it makes us proud to work for a company that supports something like this.”
This effort is part of AbbVie’s Week of Possibilities initiative. The company partnered with the nonprofit Heart of America Foundation to develop STEM labs and complete other projects in more than a…
