PARTIES WITH PURPOSE
Foster & Adoptive Care Coalition
LITTLE WISHES, BIG DREAMS
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HE FOSTER & ADOPTIVE CARE Coalition held an elegant celebration of granting ‘Little Wishes, Big Dreams’ at the Forest Park Visitors Center. Sandy and Dixie Deibel presented the event, which was attended by executive director Melanie Scheetz, coalition president Jane Dueker and committee members Liz Harry, Karen Shaughnessy and Katie Sheth, among others. Special guest, actor/comedian Tommy Davidson, shared his thoughts about the time he spent in foster care and how he was later adopted. During the dinner portion of the night, the Schnuck family and Miles Elkins were honored for their commitment to the organization.
BY MOLLY JAMES
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Joe and Janet Ciapciak
Sandy Deibel, Tommy Davidson
Jack Abels, Karen Destefane, Katie Sheth
Mary Ellen Cotsworth, Bill Siedhoff
Providing every person with amazing care drives everything we do at McKnight Place Extended Care. With our great nurse to resident ratio and local owners on-site, establishing close relationships with our Residents comes naturally to us. In The Gatesworth tradition of excellence, we extend our very best to Residents and their families. Two McKnight Place St. Louis, MO 63124 www.mpextendedcare.com
Our Residents amaze us every day. We’d love to meet your amazing family member. To learn more, please call Christina at (314) 993-2221.
This amazing person deserves amazing care.
McKnight Place Extended Care is committed to equal housing opportunity and does not discriminate in housing and services because of race, color, religion, sex, handicap, familial status or natural origin.
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