Thank You to High Holy Day Volunteers and Donors!

This High Holiday season, over 50 bags filled with honey cake, apples, honey sticks, tea, juice, and Shabbat and yahrzeit candles made their way to seniors and disconnected members of our Jewish community.

​18 BAG ASSEMBLY VOLUNTEERS
A huge thanks to Mimi Naish-Toews, who opened her home for our assembly party and pitched in at every step along the way, and to Meg Hillman, whose steady stream of calls and emails kept this whole effort moving. 

​​Along with Mimi and Meg, we were joined on Sunday by fellow assembly volunteers Susan Pearl, Adriana Sousa, Ben and Eve Fine, Dayna Austin and Adam Schreckinger, Fiona Ferguson Reichek, James Graff-Radford, Judy Barclay, Lisa Marmon, Nissa Rost-Rothman, Ronnie Goyette, Julia Townsend, and Nachshon Margalit with Arielle and Ava. We even had four kids helping out!

14 VOLUNTEER DRIVERS
We're just as grateful to our drivers, who made sure these bags got safely to their recipients' doors: Anita Lawson, Anne Robin, Michael and Carol Ray Rosen, Dove Okonina, Gordon Mullin, Karin Traber, Linda Seeley, Nachshon Margalit, Nancie Hardy, Robert & Sheila Spector, Susan Pearl, and Terri Burkhart.

​$2,401 RAISED
We met our anonymous donor’s matching challenge for $1,200, with thanks to Cricket Handler, Andi Portney, Etti Margalit, Karin Traber, Elisa S. Feingold, Diana Wright, Anne Robin, Joshua Burt, Linda Seeley, Bruce L Cohen and Julia Townsend. 

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Because of you, care bags reached even more community members who needed a little extra love this season, and you helped make all of the JCC's programs possible.

This project happens every year because our community shows up for each other, and this year was no exception: 55 bags, 30 volunteers, $2,428.28 raised, and a reminder to everyone who received one that they are cared for. Thank you to everyone who gave their time, their homes, their cars, and their hearts to make that possible.


Shabbat Shalom and Shanah Tovah U'Metukah,
Heather Townsend, JCC Administrator