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Vol. 6 No. 12
By J.D. O’Gara They didn’t know what was needed, but they wanted to help, help in any way they
could. That’s what they do. The Medway Neighbor Brigade, now about 300 strong, stepped forward in the wake of the town’s most recent loss,
Medway residents Nikki Mavrikos (left) and Kari McLeod co-chair the Medway Neighbor Brigade, which organizes an extra hand for neighbors in times of need. Visit them at www.neighborbrigade.org.
neighbors helping neighbors, as they have been doing for about nine years. “Most recently, we helped out at the reception for the funeral for Maddie Lamson,” says Nikki Mavrikos, co-chair of the Medway Neighbor Brigade. Mavrikos says she didn’t know Maddie, but her loss still hit her, and she, and many others, wanted to help. “Her whole neighborhood provided the whole reception, with kids from the school bringing all the desserts,” says Mavrikos, “and basically what was left for us to do to help was to be the servers. They didn’t have anybody. It’s just we help wherever we’re needed,” she says. The nonprofit organization began in 2006 as the Medway Angels, by Mavrikos, Inspired by her friend, Pam Washek, and Pam’s friend, Jean Seiden, both of whom had begun a similar organization in Way-
Organization Expects to Help 900 Local Families this Year
By J.D. O’Gara
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After 29 years, the Santa Foundation has grown to serve exactly that many towns – 29. The Franklin based nonprofit organization, The Santa Foundation, founded by Bob Sullivan, and run with his partner, Richard Timmons and the help of about 15 part-time volunteers, isn’t just gifts for the holidays. Although the group provides gifts during Christmastime (providing $25,516 worth of gifts last year), it offers emergency aid for essentials such as rent/mortgage ($14,863 last year), heating costs, electric bills and other family support ($12,461 in family support and $11,005 in other family needs last year. In fact, total funds disbursed in 2014 by The Santa Foundation were $64,845.
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Needy families, says Sullivan, “come to see me and I talk to them. I talk to them all year long. They need oil, rent, electric. We do it for Christmas, giving presents, not money,” he says. “Our big thing is, if on Christmas Day they have gifts and a meal from the food pantry like every other family, they have hope to go forward.” Most of the 811 families that the Santa Foundation helped in 2014 hailed from Franklin (161), but another 65 families from Norfolk sought help, along with Bellingham (50), Milford (48), Blackstone (47), Plainville (44), Medway (44), Millis (29), Wrentham (27), and Worcester (20).
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