Students from the Boys
and Girls Club, Citizens
for Citizens Making Proud Choices, and B.M.C.
Durfee High School joined dozens of others at the Elks Lodge on
February 17, 2015 to stuff envelopes for A
Wish Come True's annual fundraiser. The group helped to get over
24,000 envelopes stuffed with notices of the April 24th event at the Venus
deMilo Restaurant. For
more than 32 years, A Wish Come True, Inc. has been
granting wishes to children age 3 through 18 who suffer from life
threatening illnesses, and live in Rhode Island and parts of southeastern
Massachusetts. A Wish
Come True gives children and their families a chance to set aside the
illness, and have opportunities to do things or go places other children
and families experience. The mission and goal is to grant every medically
qualified child “one memorable wish.” A Wish Come True, Inc.
was the first organization of its kind in this area, granting wishes to 12
children in the first year and now average approximately a wish a week. Volunteers
are the key to this organizations’ long, successful history of putting
smiles on the faces of some very courageous children. Click
here for a three-minute 
video of the event.
For more information about the event, contact Jim
Cavanaugh at 508-673-3501.
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(Top
row, left and center) Fall River Youth Services Coordinator Christian
McCloskey speaks with Laura Gaudette who then sits down to work with John
Jeffreys and Erik Agusto of Citizens
for Citizens peer leaders on the project. (Top row, right) Shaneyd
Sousa, Sophia Mello, Connor Lapointe and Reagan McDonald of B.M.C.
Durfee High School work as a team. (Row two, left and right) Volunteer
staff from the Boys and Girls Club
work together, including Kayla Thibault and Daishawn Barrows. (Row two,
center) Emily Correira and Sarah and Nick Hall work together. (Row three,
left and right) Committee Chairman Jim Cavanaugh and Junior Paquette
oversee the operation, checking on Boys and Girls Club Volunteers Ethan
Vento and Elijah Peterson's' work. (Row three, center) Jim Cavanaugh and A
Wish Come True, Inc. Founder Rosemary Bowers, pause for a photo. (Bottom
row, left and center) Jim greets David Springer who gets to work with
Tommy Duclos. (Bottom row, right) Guitarist and singer Nick Martin
entertains the group. |
