Employees of Windermere Maple Valley spent their Friday morning working in the city as part of the company’s Community Service Day.

The Maple Valley office split up into two teams and went to a home in Cherokee Bay and to Vine Maple Place.

At the home of Michiko Eckard, volunteers from Windermere worked on the yard, pulling weeds, re-staining the deck and other tasks. Eckard has an English teaching school in Sendai, Japan, according to information provided by Windermere Maple Valley.

While Eckard — who was in Japan at the time — survived the disaster, the school was severely damaged after the earthquake and tsunami that hit the country earlier this year.

Meanwhile, Windermere employees have volunteered at Vine Maple Place for more than a decade, where they pulled weeds, mowed the lawn, and a number of other chores to beautify the property at the non-profit’s apartments near Maple Valley.

Vine Maple Place, which was founded in 2000, serves homeless single parents and their children, offering transitional housing, counseling, connections to job retraining, financial literacy classes among other services.