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Highlights
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Holidays
2004
The Newsletter of Bread of
Life
Volume XII, Number 3 |
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Winter Wonders
As the wind swirls through fallen leaves, we're
reminded that another
New England
winter is on the way. But one of the wonders of winter is that Bread of
Life will be there to help people through.
For families and seniors living on a fixed income,
struggling with unemployment, low-paying jobs or illness, winter can be
especially tough. Fuel costs are up significantly over last year and the
holidays are fast approaching.
In the midst of this, BOL volunteers and partner
organizations are swinging into action. During November, BOL will
distribute over 400 turkeys, hams or supermarket gift certificates to
our food pantry recipients-- providing a holiday feast for about 1,200
parents and children.
We'll also cosponsor the annual "Don't Be
Alone On Thanksgiving"
Turkey
Dinner on
Thanksgiving
Day
Centre
United
Methodist
Church
in
Malden
from noon 2 pm. We will serve a complete sit-down meal to about 200
seniors and people who are alone, with delivery of
meal to about 250 additional seniors who can't get
out.
This special meal is sponsored by Anthony's
Malden
,
BOL, Centre United
Methodist
Church
,
Forestdale
Community
Church
, Mayor Richard C. Howard,
Malden
Lions Club, Zonta Club of
Malden
and
Marty's Caterers of
Stoneham
. Fran Brown coordinating this huge effort involving dozens
volunteers who deliver meals, cook turkeys, prepare vegetables, bake
pies, serve and clean up. People interested in volunteering or donating
can call Fran at 781-321-2034.
For Christmas, BOL will work with volunteers from Temple Tifereth Israel of
Malden to
provide our annual Christmas Day Dinner at St. Paul's Parish, Malden,
from noon - 2pm. Ed Weiner, who will be head chef, and Lauren
Cherkas, the Temple’s Social
Action Chairperson, will
coordinate the banquet of roast beef, mashed potatoes, gravy,
vegetables, fresh fruit and desserts. Donations from the community help
provide a gift of socks, gloves, scarves or underwear for each person
attending -- including the elderly, homeless, and those who are alone.
We're also working in conjunction with Jenniferat the Malden
Mayor's Office and Elizabeth
Engerman at Tri-City
Community Action Program to
make sure needy children receive a gift on Christmas day. Volunteers are
encouraged to donate gift cards to Toys 'R' Us or other department
stores, so parents can buy the right gift for their child.
Volunteers
Help Collect Food and Warm Clothing
Bread
of Life is blessed with community volunteers and
partner organizations that take the initiative in organizing
their work place, church or neighborhood to help
those in need. Already, food and clothing drives are underway.
So if you're around town, check these out:
* Malden
Access TV 3rd Annual "Cans for the Community"
Food Drive. * Beebe
School in Malden involves
the K-8 children in an
annual
canned goods collection under the direction of guidance
counselor, Joel Kobey.
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Delta Dental Plan in Charlestown --
one of the sponsors
of our Walk for Bread --
is holding their company canned
food drive through Thanksgiving.
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Cross Country Health Care of Malden is
doing their annual
food collection at their company for the holidays.
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The Malden Mayor’s Office is
running their annual
"Warm
Up Winter" drive,
under the direction of Jennifer
Henry,
to collect hats, gloves and scarves in bins located at businesses
and churches.
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Curves for Women is
running their annual canned food drive
at their Malden and Melrose club locations.
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Stop & Shop supermarkets -- on Charles Street and on
Broadway in Malden -- are
running their annual
"Food
For Friends" coin
collection. Canisters at the check-out
registers let customers donate their spare change to BOL.
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Davidson Chevrolet in Malden will
hold their annual holiday
party, under the direction of Gwen
Davidson, asking
employees to compete to bring in the most cans of food.
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DONORS June
- October 2004
Thank you, and
God bless you!
Seraphim
($10,000 and up)
Adelaide Breed
Bayrd Foundation, Malden
Project
Bread/Walk for Hunger
Cherubim ($5,000
to $9,999)
TJX Foundation,
Boston
Dominions
($1,000 to $4,999)
A & A Window
Products, Malden
Centre United
Methodist Church, Malden*
Delta Dental
Plan/DSM, Boston
Eagle Bank,
Everett
Emergency Food
& Shelter Program,
FEMA, United Way
First Baptist
Church, Malden*
Sacred Hearts
Parish, Malden
St. Paul’s
Parish, Malden*
Salem Five
Charitable Foundation, Salem
Triple M Realty,
Medford*
The Frederick E.
Weber Charities
Corporation,
Boston
Virtues ($500 to
$999)
B.J.s Wholesale
Club, Medford*
Francine Black
Carpenters Local
Union #218, Malden
Corwin &
Corwin / Beverly Twomey*
Pamela &
Joseph Gormley
Nissen Bakery
Outlet, Medford*
Prolerized New
England Co., Everett
St. Peter's
Parish, Malden
US Alliance
Federal Credit Union, Waltham
Verizon, Andover
Wonder Hostess
Outlet, Malden*
Zonta Club of
Malden
Archangels (100
to 499)
Arlex Oil Corp,
Lexington
Nancy &
Peter Brown
Burnett &
Moynihan, Inc., Revere
Nancy & Mark
Camarata
Mary & Peter
Cargill
Adeline &
Robert Corcoran
Davenport
Memorial Foundation, Malden
Eastern
Middllesex Assoc. of Realtors, Inc., Reading
Fred Eid
Janice Feagley
First Baptist
Church, Malden
First Baptist of
Wakefield
First
Congregational Church, Malden
Friends of
Francis, Medford
Mary &
Patrick Gallagher
Alice Heald
Christina &
Thomas Loftus
Love Inc, Malden
Melrose
Highlands Cong. Church
Merchants Hair
Goods, Malden
Rochelle
O'Gorman
Shahin & H.
Thomas Sagafi
Rosemary Sheldon
St. Joseph's
Parish,
Medford
Sisters of
Providence,
Malden
Patricia
Taglilatelo
Temple Beth
Shalom, Melrose
Tina Tselepis
Angels (under
$100)
Paula &
George Atamian |
In Memory of
Richard Ayer ,
given by Carol
Gately
Dena Barrisoni
Susan &
Anthony Bellofatto
Bible Class,
Cheverus School*
Winifred Bourne
Kathy Boyd*
JulieBozer
Daisy Buonapane
Justin Burns*
Linda Calo*
Katherine &
Joseph Casey
Jonathan Chase,
MD
Joseph &
Patricia Chelius
Christ United
Methodist Church Malden*
Deb Cicero*
Benjamin Cline*
Doris Coles
Kathy Conella
Dailey Family*
In Memory of
Jean Meyers ,
given by Kay
Dello Russo
David Desmond
Kenneth DeSimone
Kathleen
DiChiappari
Jim Duggan*
Jean &
Bradford Edgerly
In Memory of
Ernest Fields ,
given by Joanne
Bruder and Friends
First Church of
Malden*
First United
Methodist Church, Melrose
Anne Fisk
E.M. Fitzmaurice
& Eileen Woods
Eric Fleming*
Mary &
Patrick Gallagher
Karen & Leo
Gerstil
Anne Gilbert
& Robert Duff
Eileen Gorham*
Ralph Hannabury
Art Hannah*
Art Hannah*
Alice Louise
& Michael Harris
Ann Gilbert.
Huggins Center
In Memory of
Francis Yarisitis,
given by Ann
& Peter Hanifan
In Memory of
Kenneth Harlow ,
given by Winifed
"Polly" Harlow
Erik Hilton*
Kim Jones*
In Memory of
Marcia & Joe Laspina,
given by Elaine
& Walter Elliott
Alyson Lee
In Memory of
Clair Lewis,
given by Rita
Coye
Joanne Lisk
Theresa &
Chet Lodie*
Christine &
Thomas Loftus
Rosalie &
Salvator LoPilato
Joseph &
Anne Marie LoPresti
Loyal Order of
Moose, Malden
Edwin Lucey
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In Memory of
Charles MacQuarrie,
given by
Elizabeth MacQuarrite
In Honor of the
Wedding of
Bob Mallon ,
given by David
Rich Marlen*
Walter Markevich
Kathleen
Matsutani*
Estelle
McDonough
Doug McEvoy
In Memory of
Jean McLaughlin ,
given by
Patricia & David
Louise Meehan*
Evelyn Michals
Micro Semi Inc,
Lawrence*
George Milowe
John Moran
David & Ann
Elise Morrill
Pat Morsett*
Jacquelyn &
Doerrer Mullen
Nancy Mulrey*
Kathleen Nolan*
In Memory of
Rachel Pearlman
Mary Elizabeth
McKenna,
given by Maureen
& Kenneth
Jeanette &
Philip Pendleton
Anna &
Gerald Peterson
Jaye Phillips*
Ann &
Richard Pilcher
Theresa Price*
Aaron Reitano
& Students
In Honor of
Betsy & Mike
given by Julie
& Paul Roberts
Mr. & Mrs.
William Rosenfield
Sacred Hearts,
Malden
St.Eulalia
Church, Winchester*
Sants Natural
Vegetarian Foods,
In Memory of
Arthur Tastackoff,
given by Mary
& Tim Mustone
In Memory of
Joseph Murphy,
given by Joy
& Richard Turcotte
Ann Tribbles
Ann Walsh*
Emily Walsh
Christine White*
*=in-kind
donation
3rd
Annual BOL
Golf
Classic
The
Bread of Life hosted a golf tournament
at
the Andover Country Club on
October
18th. It was a beautiful Fall
day,
temperature just right and plenty
foliage
for those that golfed and also
those
that volunteered their time to
enjoy.
Thanks to Malden City
Councillor
at Large Martin Gately,
Marcia
and Mike Sullivan, Sal Lopilato,
Gabriella
Snyder, Tom Feagley and
Joan
Chiasson for helping with this
fundraiser.
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Bread of Life
Stands in the
Gap
"Joe"
and his wife and child
were homeless and sheltered
for months in
the Day’s Inn in Saugus. We met them when
our Homeless
Outreach team delivered weekly groceries
and meals to
them there. Now, he and his family have an
apartment of
their own. "I don’t know what we would have
done without you
guys!," he said, "You helped us out when
we didn’t have
anything."
"Ling"
comes to the evening meal
at St. Paul’s bringing
her little
three-year-old granddaughter and wheeling her
infant grandson
in his carriage. But Ling is too concerned
about others
getting enough food to take food herself --
even though her
family is clearly in need.
Gesturing toward
her granddaughter, she conveys in her
limited English
that she just wants a meal for the little girl.
One of the
volunteers tried in vain to let Ling know she
should eat, but
she selflessly refused. Finally, they
convinced her to
take some bread and fruit home for the
children.
"Teresa,"
who is 40 and has two
grown children and a
grandchild, went
through two major surgeries in the past six
months. The
recovery on the second one was longer than
expected and she
had to stay with a friend for a week.
Before she
returned home she called BOL, anxious because
she had no food
in her house. BOL was able to settle her
fears and
provide her with the groceries she desperately
needed.
Volunteer
Highlights
Two of Bread of
Life’s stalwart partner groups --
St. James in
Medford and St.
Peter’s in Malden --
have
been closed by
the Archdiocese. Yet amazingly, these
committed
volunteers are not going to let that stop them
from continuing
with Bread of Life!
"Their
loyalty to the work is extraordinary given
that their
churches have closed," said BOL
Director Tom
Feagley, "It
would have been so easy to say ‘we can’t do it
anymore.’"
The members of
St. James have been providing
meals at BOL
since 1987. Longtime coordinator Rita
Menezes ,
helper Marie Barry, and
the rest of the team are
not giving up
the service they have grown to love. When
their church was
slated to close, they decided to carry over
the funds set
aside for the ministry, which is enough to keep
their BOL meal
going for at least a year. They now call
their group
"St. James Outreach." Says Rita, "This gives us
a chance to see
each other every month and stay in touch
even though we
don’t have the same church."
Ann & Frank
Magistro of St. Peter’s
have also
been serving
since 1987, and are determined to keep doing
the second
Wednesday BOL meal. They already have some
helping hands
from the teens of Malden Catholic and the
Malden High
School Key Club -- but they very much need
a partner church
or temple to help them meet the financial
end of putting
on a meal - which usually runs $100 per
month. If any
group is interested in partnering with St.
Peter’s,
please contact Tom Feagley at 781-397-0404.
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Malden resident,
Joan Lukas, runs in the Walk for Bread & 10K run,
raising the
highest amount of pledges.
2004 Walk for
Bread
& 10K Run
Friends of Bread
of Life, members of the Key Club
Malden High
School, runners who had heard of us
through web
sites and folks drawn to us via leafleting and
media met on
October 3 to make the 12th Walk for Bread
success.
Individual pledges totaled nearly $8,000 and added
corporate
pledges of $10,000 enabled the Walk to near
2004 goal of
$20,000. Help us get over the top -- you can
still donate to
the Walk at: www.active.com/
donate/walkforbread.
High pledge raisers were Joan
Lukas
960 ($400 Walk
day, $560 active.com) and Rachel
&
Kelly Dunn $653
($653 Walk day). The first male runner
over the finish
line was Sam Tat,
and the first female
runner was Leslie
Phillips.
By working with
a great Walk Committee, I felt
more connected
to the Mission of the Bread of Life to serve
the needy of
this area. Anne
Siegler's, Barbara Ball's,
Gabriella
Snyder's, Tom Feagley's and
many other's
contributions to
the Walk made the Walk Committee's
easier. I hope
to do more with the Walk Committee to make
the 13th Walk
for Bread better than ever.
Seamus Kearney
Chair, Walk for Bread Committee
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Thank
you to our corporate sponsors for the
12th
Annual Walk for Bread on October 3rd
A
& A Window Products, Malden
Bourque
Painting, Malden
Century
21 Legacy Properties
DSM/Delta
Dental Plan, Boston
EagleBank,
Everett
Malden
Family Health Center
PrintWix
Screen Printing
Prolerized
New England, Everett
Stop
& Shop Charles St/Broadway, Malden
Triple-M
Realty Trust, Medford
US
Alliance Federal Credit Union, Waltham
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PARTNER
ORGANIZATIONS:
EVERETT:
Everett
Rotary Club
MALDEN:
Centre
United Methodist Church
First
Baptist Church
First
Church Congregational
First
Lutheran Church
Forestdale
Community Church
Immaculate
Conception Church
Knights
of Columbus - Santa Maria Council
Malden
Catholic High School
Malden
Family Health Center/Sharewood Project
Malden
High School Key Club
Malden
Rotary Club
Malden
Zonta Club
Sacred
Hearts Parish
St.
Joseph's Parish
St.
Paul's Parish
St.
Peter's Church
St.
Vincent de Paul Society -St. Joseph’s Parish
Temple
Ezrath Israel
Temple
Tifereth Israel
MEDFORD:
St.
Francis of Assisi Church
St.
James Outreach
St.
Joseph's Church
MELROSE:
First
Baptist Church
First
United Methodist Church
Green
Street Baptist Church
Melrose
Highlands Congregational
Melrose
Unitarian Universalist
Temple
Beth Shalom
READING:
Good Shepherd Church
STONEHAM:
St. Patrick's Church
WAKEFIELD:
Emmanuel Episcopal Church
WILMINGTON:
St. Elizabeth's Church
by
the Woods
WINCHESTER:
International Family Church
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DINNERS:
Tues ,
6 pm, Centre Methodist,
Washington St.,
Malden
Wed ,
5 pm, St. Paul's,
26 Washington
St., Malden
Thur ,
6 pm, St. Paul's,
26 Washington
St., Malden
Fri ,
6 pm, First Baptist,
493 Main St.,
Malden
CLOTHING: Tues,
6 pm ,
Centre
Methodist, Malden
FOOD PANTRY
HOURS:
Fri, 2 - 4 pm or
3rd Wed, 4 - 6 pm.
Call for
appointment.
STAFF:
Thomas Feagley, Director
Gabriella
Snyder,
Special Projects
Coordinator
McKay Russo, Pantry
Coordinator
Joanne Bruder,
Betty Donnelly,
Louise Gilbert,
Eleanor Kazlauskas,
Inge Liias, Rose
Wilson,
Administrative
Assistants
Lucy Jackson,
Betsy Gillaspie,
Caring &
Sharing Convenors
OFFICE HOURS:
Tu, Th, Fri:
noon - 5:30 pm
Wed: noon - 4:30
pm
511 Main Street
Malden, MA 02148
Ph: 781-397-0404
Fax: 781-288-
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WISH LIST
Bread of Life is
looking for donations
the following
items:
Supermarket
gift certificates for
turkey &
fixings ($10 or $20)
Turkeys
(fresh or frozen) and
hams (frozen,
refrigerated or
canned ) for
holiday meals.
Holiday
gifts for children - we
suggest gift
certificates to a local
store (such as
Toys ‘R’ Us) so the
parents may
purchase the appropriate
gift themselves.
New
socks, underwear, thermals,
gloves, hats,
all sizes, for men and
women for
Christmas Dinner gifts.
Food
Pantry items especially
needed: stuffing
mix, mashed potato
buds, cranberry
sauce, condensed
milk, pasta
sauce, fresh fruits and
vegetables,
frozen meats, jelly,
mayonaise,
toiletries, diapers (any
size), baby food
and supplies.
Two
oven racks for St. Paul’s
kitchen, $120
apiece.
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