Enormous Holiday
Party for
Foster and Homeless Children
On Sunday
December 12, 2004 at the Elks Home on Quarry Street, Quincy, East Coast
Petroleum, with its President Loretta DeGrazia as lead sponsor, with
the assistance of many other local business, hosted the second annual giant
Christmas party with food, gifts and entertainment for more than 275 foster and
homeless children of the United Homes for Children, which is headquartered at
Dorchester and Tewksbury.
Pictured here is Christine Delorey. Thank you , Assistant to the
General Mgr. and head of Accounts Payable, with the Red Sox Green Monster.
Christine played a significant role in assisting with the successful party for
the United Homes for Children. |
United Homes for Children was founded in 1972. It is
a 501 (c) 3 organization, a private, non-profit charitable corporation under
federal and state tax laws. United Homes provides specialized foster care for
pre-adolescent and adolescent children. The more than 250 children, ranging in
age from two to eighteen, cared for in foster families and group homes face a
great variety of challenges.
Children served by its programs include those who
have been physically and sexually abused; those who have been chronically
neglected due to parental drug or alcohol abuse or incarceration; those with
developmental or physical disabilities or delays; those who have significant
medical problems; those who have no life stability, having had multiple
caretakers in only a few short years; those with learning and behavioral
disorders; those who are homeless; young, pregnant adolescent girls and
adolescent mothers with nowhere else to turn.
Food sponsors included: Culinary Arts Program at
Quincy Center for Technical Education, Barrett Family Catering, DiBella's Pizza
and Subs, Ginger Betty's, This Takes the Cake, Konditor Meister Bakery,
Phillips Candy House, Roche Brothers Market and Party Soda company.
Hosting, transportation, decoration, security and
entertainment sponsors included: the Elks Lodge #943, Beantown/Brush Hill
Trolley Tours, Modern Art Sign, Living Silks by John Morton, DJ Marc
McGillicuddy, Jeannie Lindheim's Hospital Clowns of Brookline, Officer Kent
Yee, Quincy Community Police Unit.
Other sponsors included: Citizens Bank, Quincy
Office, F1-Boston, the Quincy Kiwanis Club, Quincy Youth Arena, The Boston Red
Sox, the Boston Madison Square Garden Club, Maksou Hair Salon and Day Spa, The
Nail Loft, the Marriott Boston Hotel at Quincy and Building 19. Bernice Mader's
Red Tape Ltd. provided public relations and publicity.
Contact Person:
Bernice Mader, Consultant for
Business Development
East Coast Petroleum
(617) 773-6881
bernicemader1@comcast.net
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