YMCA Teen Leaders Club presents $1000 donation to Open Door Food Pantry

Joey –

Thank you all for the GREAT coverage on GMG…it meant a great deal to the kids and to me.

Rick

With deep appreciation and many thanks to the great number of you who supported our teens in this effort.

YMCA Teen Leaders Club presents $1000 donation to Open Door

Back in January, members of the YMCA Teen Leaders Club embarked on their annual “Rockathon to Feed Cape Ann’s Hungry” – with each member rocking in a rocking chair for 24-sleepless hours from 8am Saturday through 8am Sunday. Each Y Teen Leader committed to solicit and collect a minimum of 222 cans. From Youth spent weeks soliciting and then collecting donations of non-perishable food items. In order to accommodate prospective donors who might have difficulty carting caseloads of cans, the club established a “three-for-a-dollar” rate for financial donations for Open Door.

Through the efforts of this fantastic group of local youth, more than 5500 cans and other non-perishable food items were earned and distributed to the Open Door, St. Vincent DePaul Society and directly to local families in need.

On February 11th, the YMCA Teen Leaders Club welcomed special guest Julie LaFontaine, Executive Director of the Open Door. After Julie thanks the teens for their consistently strong efforts year after year, club members proudly presented a $1000 donation – the fiscal culmination of the groups’ collections. The YMCA Teen Leaders Club would like to officially recognize our top three solicitors: Colby Ferris-657, Alex Jones-468 & Zach White-293. We would also like to thanks our families, friends, neighbors and the community for such a tremendous outpouring of support for others in need.

YMCA TEEN LEADERS CLUB
Recognition of 2010 Rockathon
Paul Bonderev
Stephen Bouchie
Heather Boudrow
AJ Celantano
Shawna Denton-Carollo
Rick Doucette (Advisor)
Emily Farel
Colby Ferris
Victoria Flannagan
Alex Henry
Alex Jones
Jared Marshall
Dom Nicastro
Nathan Rubin
Andreaz Saputo
Antonio Saputo
Anthony Scola
Steven Verga
Zachary White
Andrew Widtfeldt

Robyn Wonson

The YMCA Teen Leaders Club is open to all Cape Ann youth in grades 7 – 12 has been serving Cape Ann since 1994.

For more information on opportunities for local teens, please contact Rick Doucette or Nikki Klink at the Teen & Camp Services YMCA 978-283-0470 or visit us on the web at www.cayteenandcamp.org or www.rockportteencenter.org.

Health & prosperity

Rick Doucette | Executive Director
Teen & Camp Services YMCA
Cape Ann YMCA
9 Center Street | Gloucester, MA 01930
978-283-0470 ext. 1702 | (F) 978-283-3114
doucetter | www.northshoreymca.org

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