Thank You for The Giving Tree Gifts 2013

Thank You for The Giving Tree Gifts 2013: 

Thanks to all of you shoppers and gift wrappers, and special thanks to our project coordinators Karen Shellie & Susan Wawrzaszek, our Middle School Students, Ellen Ward and Doris Filisko for making the Giving Tree Tags.    We thank those who decorated the trees, and most especially those who moved the gifts from the church to storage after all the Masses:   Jane Antosiak, Moni Barera, Joe & Molly Cleary, Wanita Forgacs, Amy Gottfried, Dorothy Greca, Vicki Hatch, Molly Hill, Andrew Hocott, John Jalbert, Jane Levy, Georgia Luke, Chris Mollo, Bruce & Ann Moln, James & Pamela Palm, Maya Savarino, Julie Soyer, Akane Kanesaki Wiseman, James & Linda Wiseman & Susan Wawrzaszek.

More than 1000 Individual Gifts were distributed to individuals in need through the following organizations:

• Home of New Vision -Recovery;

• Ozone House;

• St. Louis Center;

• Catholic Social Services

• Angel Tree, Lansing

• Perry Nursery School;

• ArborVitae Women's Center;

• Project Transition;

• Hope Clinic, Inc.;

• HIV/AIDs Resource Center (H.A.R.C.);

• Community Action Network, Green Baxter and Hikone

• SOS Homeless Children's Services;

• CSTS, Community Support and Treatment Center;

• Veterans at VA Hospital.