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Mentors and mentees in the
SMILES (Southcoast Mentoring
Initiative for
Learning, Education and Service)
mentoring program (a program of People,
Incorporated) in Fall River and New Bedford traveled to Boston on
June 7, 2012for a Red Sox game against the Baltimore Orioles. The trip
was part of a statewide event organized by Mass
Mentors in which over sixty groups in Massachusetts were invited to
participate. The group traveled by bus from the Matthew
J. Kuss Middle School in Fall River to Fenway Park in Boston
through rain showers that threatened to cancel the game. When the group
got there, however, they enjoyed clear skies and a beautiful June
evening to enjoy the game that the Red Sox took, seven to zero. "It
was a great experience both for the mentors as well as the mentees, some
of whom had never been to Boston," stated Heidi Bedard who, along
with program director Katje Fuson, led the group. Weekly SMILES mentoring sessions are
scheduled throughout the year to offer mentors and mentees the chance to
get to know each other better and to form strong bonds designed to keep
mentees invested in their schools. Click
here for pictures the Kuss group earlier in
the year. Click
here for
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(Top row) Mentor Catarina Bauer and her mentee, Tori, board the bus for Boston as Fall River SMILES coordinator Heidi Bedard and New Bedford SMILES coordinator Stephanie Silva give instructions to the group. (Middle row) The group arrives at Fenway Park for the game with the Baltimore Orioles, and Catarina takes a seat with hundres of other mentor-mentee pairs. (Bottom row) Fall River SMILES director Katje Fuson leads a cheer for the Red Sox, who won the game, 7-0, before posing with People, Incorporated CEO Robert Canuel in front of the group before returning to Fall River. |
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