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Who is Helping: Businesses! |
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WEQX radio provided live coverage of a CD giveaway to encourage food donations.
Shearer's Honda
and their manager Kevin Bowie have been immensely helpful raising funds
for our food shelf and getting our agency known around the area by sponsoring
promotions, radio broadcasts, and linking us to other supportive businesses.
The Fair Haven
Inn, especially Faith Lemnotis, has worked long and hard to
create and enrich our annual December Gala. They have recruited folks
to wait tables, set up a wonderful silent auction, found sponsors for
the meals for tables full of participants, gathered all kinds of contributions,
and of course, provided a delightful setting and fun spirit and mouth-watering
food.
McDonald's of Fair Haven, particularly
Suellen Schneider, has made our Summer Nutrition Program thrive by providing
Happy Meals one day a week - a tremendous incentive for children to
participate,
Chittenden Bank folks from Fair Haven take charge of the gifts from the Christmas
Giving Tree, gathering gifts daily through the holiday season and wrapping
them for a surprise friend, in addition to providing us with board member
Peggy Ackerman.
Stewart's Shops of Fair Haven provide
commendable community leadership every Christmas gathering donations
that make our Christmas Food Baskets possible and DOUBLING every dollar
given!
Holiday
Inn of Rutland has provided continental breakfasts to help with
a food donation promotion.
Cabot Creamery provides lots of cheese and dairy products for our neighbors.
American Fund Raising connected us with thousands of units of prepared foods from a discontinued food line and provides warehouse and refirgerated space when we need it, surplus gifts at holiday times, along with a line up of great people who volunteer when we need help!
Rutland Regional Medical
Center sponsors gifts for
several local families with their Adopt-A-Family at Christmas.
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