The old clubhouse at the former Pistol Creek golf course got a high-powered make-over June 11 when nearly 200 volunteers from the accounting firm of Deloitte LLP descended on the prop-erty to landscape, paint, build athletic and picnic facilities and more. All materials and labor for improvements were donated. The site, owned by the town, will be the summer home of the Berlin-Kensington YMCA Thundermoon camp. The Y project was the sole Hartford region project chosen by Deloitte for its 2010 IMPACT Day.

"IMPACT Day is an opportunity to celebrate our commitment to building stronger nonprofit organizations," said Barry Salzberg, chief executive officer, Deloitte LLP. IMPACT Day is in its eleventh year.

Paul Guzzardi, chair of the YMCA board of directors, is an employee of Deloitte and was instrumental in bringing the Y’s application forward. Mark Pasquariello, executive director of the YMCA, was at Pistol Creek last week taking in all the improvements unfolding in the course of just one day: crews building picnic tables and fire pits; crews constructing climbing walls and gaga courts (a kind of dodge ball); painters and landscapers. “They’re providing all the manual labor and supplies,” Pasquariello said.

(For more on this story see the June 17 edition of The Citizen.)