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Dozens of volunteers came
together at the Boys and Girls Club on Bedford Street on February 6, 2017 to stuff envelopes for A
Wish Come True's annual fundraiser. The group helped to get over
22,000 envelopes stuffed with notices of the April
29th fundraiser at the Venus
deMilo Restaurant. For
more than 23 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 averages 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
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(Top
row) Volunteer Organizer Junior Paquette welcomes another group of
volunteers who agreed to help with the effort and then explains how to
stuff each envelope. (Row two) Fall
River Police officers take their place with the help of Lt. Paul
Bernier. (Row three) Sergeant Jim Smith stuffs along with dozens of
other volunteers. (Bottom row) Girl Scouts help with the project.
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