The Milford Youth Center was able to provide a gift this Holiday season to over 120 After-School members due to such amazing generosity from the community! Each child was able to receive at least three gifts due the amazing support we received this year, amounting to $20,000 worth of gifts!!!
We would first like to thank Pizza Chef of Milford for donating 15 pizzas for the event!
Thank you to John Seaver for donating cookies for the party as well! We are so fortunate to have received a holiday surprise just in time for our upcoming party! Thank you to Gene Sardinha Jr., Steven Sardinha and Nick Jenkins for reaching out and facilitating this generous donation of $5,000 on behalf of Milford Dunkin’ to provide gifts to our After School and larger Youth Center Community! We would like to send a big thank you to the United Way of Tri-County, Barbara LaGrenade and Jessica Friswell, and their “Hope for the Holidays” program for sponsoring 65 kids this year! Thank you to Cheryl Magri for organizing the collection of 45 gifts from SeraCare! Thankyou to Samantha Ippoliti for organizing the collection from Waters Corporation to support 14 After School members! Thank you to Lisa Kohne for organizing gifts from Anytime Fitness Medway and Tri-Valley Sports! Thank you to CYCLEBAR (John & Kiersten DiChiaro, Katie Gleason), West Street Autobody, Santos Garage (Luiz C. Santos Jr.) and Amazon (Ariea Bryan) for hosting gift collections at their businesses and collections with their employees! Thank you to the Milford Rotary Club for donating 100 handmade goodie bags to hand out to the kids! Finally, thank you to the following individuals who sponsored a child and/or family: Courtney and Jessica Walsh, Katie Covell, Carrie McGrath and the Ferrucci Family!
Lastly, we would like to thank all of our staff and volunteers who attended and helped us out at the event! The Youth Council and gardening program helped put together and package gifts for over 180 volunteers, as a thank you for all your help this school year! The gifts were also passed out to our our amazing Youth Commission members, State Representative Brian W. Murray, Selectman Mike Walsh and Mr. King from the Office of Senator Fattman for joining us at the party and your continued support to the Youth Center! For more photos, click here.