With our
holiday work behind us we just want to take this opportunity to thank all
of you for your contributions to this year’s campaign. We’ve had
quite a year. We have supplied St. Peter’s soup kitchen with staple
goods throughout the year and were also able to supply them with many of
the food items they needed to feed over 150 people for Christmas
dinner. We also provided them with staple food items to get them off
on the right foot for the New Year. For 16 years we have been
providing staple foods for First
Genesis Baptist
Church’s Thanksgiving
food baskets and this year we helped them fill food baskets for over 80
families.
Our annual
toy and gift drive went well this year too! Our final totals were 439
children from 166 families. Both totals are new highs for us!
All families were delivered to with the last delivery happening on Saturday
evening on the 26th.
Special
thanks go out to:
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John
Urlaub for all of his support this and past years
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Chris
and Ted Aroesty for sharing all of the toys they collected from this year’s
holiday toy party
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Agent
Robert Murphy and his co-workers at the Secret Service who donated the toys
they collected at their holiday party to us
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Rachael
and Brandon Crance for all of their hard work on wrapping day
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Rich
Young and Bob LaFrance for their very generous donations
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Peggy
Calcagno for all of her hard work on big shopping and sorting days
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Jim
Murphy for all of his support and the use of his SUV for three days of toy
delivery
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Mary
Burr and the Fregeau family for the countless number of hours they have
volunteered
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Andy
Grantham for maintaining our website and all of his support
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Ernie
Engebretson for making big shopping day go much smoother and quicker by
overhauling our database
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And
finally, thanks again to all of you that have participated in our events,
given your time so freely as volunteers, and given from your pockets to
make this such a successful year. We look forward to your support
again this coming year.
Holiday Outreach
is a not-for-profit organization that was formed sixteen years ago to
assist less fortunate families during the holiday season and throughout the
year. Over the years, our
organization has raised over $100,000.
Our fund raising efforts have enabled us to supply many families in
need from the city of Rochester as well as other parts of Western New York.
In our first year we raised
about $400 which was used to supply three Rochester soup kitchens with much
needed food supplies during the holiday season. Last year we were able to increase that
amount to over $14,000 through a bowl-a-thon, golf tournament, Monte Carlo
Night, other community events, and private donations. This past year we were able to provide
over 500 children with gifts, clothing and food as well as supplies for
several area food cupboards and soup kitchens here in Rochester. We have
also in the past been able to support food cupboards in Avon, Lakeville,
Mt. Morris and Dansville.
Over the years we have been
able to help people in a number of different ways. We have supplied blankets to the
homeless; provided food and supplies to food cupboards/soup kitchens;
supplied food and gifts for children of impoverished families; and provided
assistance during emergency situations.
Our goal this year is to be able
to provide more children with toys and gifts and to give greater assistance
to those food cupboard/soup kitchens than we have been able to in the
past. In order to do this we will
need to surpass last year’s campaign total.
We ask for your assistance in this tremendous challenge.
