RSVP for this Month’s Holiday Virtual Luncheon
We are happy to announce that our speaker in December will be Karl Hirsch. Karl is one of our Foster Care Adoption Clinicians, and he will be sharing with us about adoption from the foster care system. He is an excellent speaker and we will able to ask our questions at the end.
Please RSVP at the following link. And then we hope you will join us in celebration, dressed in your Christmas glitz .We are looking forward to seeing each other all decked out!
If any questions or difficulties with using Zoom, please contact Elaine Swyt, 503-329-7334 or at eswyt@mediaphysics.com
Gift Tags Program and TLP Gifts & Sports Bags
The Boys & Girls Aid board of directors is so grateful to our members for their remarkable response to all of the calls for help to support our Christmas programs this year. As president of the Cypress Auxiliary, I couldn’t be more proud and appreciative of the response for requests for cookies for the sports bags, the gift giving for the children who shared their wishes to be included on our Giving Package, and the support of the our young adults in the Transitional Living Program – some of which have children of their own. All they want is to provide a meal and a few gifts at Christmas for their children. It’s never been more important than it is this year to provide some caring, normalcy, and love to these young people. Thank you to everyone for the amazing response this year. All the tags were pulled and gifts can be dropped off until today, Tuesday, December 8th.
Sign the new Cypress House Sign
A reminder that Margie Wiesenthal is still waiting for all of us to sign “Cypress House” sign which will ultimately sit in front of Seneca House. For those who didn’t know or forgot, Suzan Huntington announced at our September meeting that Seneca House would not be named Cypress House in our honor and our 30th anniversary year helping Boys & Girls Aid. But we can’t post the sign there until everyone signs it.
Margie has the correct pen needed to write on the sign and she has setup a table in her patio for you to sign the sign without having to come into her home. Margie’s address is in the Charbonneau phone directory and in the Boys & Girls new directory that was recently sent to all members in the mail. You can also email her at: wiesenthal2636@comcast.net to make your arrangements.
Donating Directly
If you prefer to donate $ at any time. Here is the online link to do that. In the “Comments” section you can add that you are “Cypress”.
Please Complete an In-Kind Form for All Giving to Boys & Girls Aid
Please remember to fill out a gift In-Kind form for the contributions you’ve made. There are those who may think this isn’t important because they won’t be reporting this on their tax forms but Boys & Girls Aid needs this information in order to keep track of the gifts each program has received. Boys and Girls Aid also NEEDS THIS IN-KIND DOCUMENTATION as proof of ALL giving to them. It also helps them to publicize all those to those who wish to use their services and/or wish also to donate to them.
Go here to get your In-Kind Form It is fillable online, which means you can type directly online, print and send. Or just download and fill it out by hand and send in to Megan Bos at mbos@boysandgirlsaid.org.
Diann Harland, President
dlharland@comcast.net