MARYSVILLE – If you were by the Marysville Community Food Bank on Thursday and saw real estate agents sprucing up the building and grounds, you’d be excused if you thought the building was going up for sale on the hot housing market.

Actually, the occasion was the Keller Williams Realty’s Red Day community service project that happens in May each year.

Last week, some 50 employees from Keller Williams and their associate partners volunteered their day time to spruce up the food bank building inside and out, as well as the grounds.

They performed a long list of tasks including painting benches, parking curbs, the outdoor donation box and cooler walls inside, pressure washing sidewalks, walkways and gutters, cleaning out and organizing shelves for future deliveries and anticipated large food donations, dusting and reorganizing the attic area, washing and sweeping out food trucks, and more.

Food Bank director Dell Deierling was awestruck.

“Their help is a force in itself,” he said. “Some of what they’re doing inside and out hasn’t been touched or updated in nine years. I hope they understand the value of time they’re giving, because what they’re doing for us is incredibly important.”

Mike Hansen is a veteran of many Red Day service projects, and the reason they do them each year is simple: seeing a need, then getting it done.

“It’s all about giving back to the community,” Hansen said.

Red Day (Renew, Energize and Donate) is an initiative that celebrates the realty’s year-round commitment to improving their communities across the U.S. and Canada.

While working at the building, Keller Williams associates also conducted a food drive on site, timed closely with Saturday’s Letter Carriers’ Stamp Out Hunger annual donation drive at curbside mailboxes.