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The Children’s Center One Virginia Lane Norwich, NY 13815 (607) 336-4499 cccc@live.com
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The Children’s Center One Virginia Lane Norwich, NY 13815 (607) 336-4499 jcoddington@ccofcc.com |
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2009 CELEBRITY AWARD
City of Norwich Police Chief Joseph Angelino Twice U.S. Military Purple Heart Award Recipient, Also Received his Award for Celebrity Cookie Excellence from the Blue Friendly Monster. The Almond Delights cookies raised $250. towards the Children’s Center Scholarship Fund. |
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Local celebrities from the Norwich Fire Chief to the Queen of Cookies have come forward this month to support the 2nd Annual Night of Cookies and Cream, the Children’s Center fundraiser to support the scholarship fund program. The event to be held on Thursday January 28th at the Norwich Fire Station will welcome the community and their families to enjoy free cookies and milk and to auction freshly baked cookies by noted local celebrities. Martha Brower-Ryan, Fundraising Campaign Chair commented about the effort; “In December we sent letters to nominated local celebrities asking them to donate a batch of their favorite cookies. On the night of January 28th, cookie jars filled with their homemade cookies will be displayed and auctioned to raise funds that will help families with low income offset the cost of child care at the Children’s Center.” According to the Children’s Center Director Darlene Anderson, the percentage of total families served by the scholarship fund jumped from 48% in 2008 to 98% in 2009 coinciding with the financial challenges faced globally. Local celebrities will compete for the Cookie Excellence award given to the cookie jar that raises the most funds from the auction. In addition, Celebrity Cookies will compete to win the Celebrity Cookie Award granted to the batch of cookies deemed the best by a group of culinary and cookie baking judges. National Business organizations like Newman’s Own foundation provided free organic cookies, and Mc Donald’s Restaurant donated individually packaged milk to distribute to children. The Sidney-Norwich Pennysaver and Central New York Radio Group came forward to support the event. “The valuable contributions of these business organizations are critical to the success of this event,” said Brower-Ryan about the business support received. |
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2010 Local Celebrities Chris Taft - The Insurance Celebrity Dr. Rosenblum - Medical Imaging Celebrity Pegi LoPresti - Norwich BID Celebrity Joe Mauriano - Norwich Mayor Celebrity Sharon Jeffers - Chocolate Lady Victoria Kappel - Arts Celebrity Marty Dietrich - Financial Celebrity Tom Emerson - Legal Celebrity Dave Emerson - Entrepreneur Celebrity Congressman Arcuri - Government Celebrity Senator Libous - Government Celebrity Maureen Carpenter - Commerce Celebrity Jane Coddington - Catholic Charities Celebrity Jamey Mullen - YMCA Celebrity Hal Skillin - Diamond Celebrity Fran Roberts - Dancing Celebrity Melissa Stagnaro - News Celebrity Tracy Chawgo - Fire Chief Celebrity Marylou Stewart - City of Norwich Celebrity Doug Wilson - Golf Celebrity Marsha Cornelius - SUNY Morrisville Celebrity Mrs Jennifer Post - Perry Browne Celebrity Mrs Darla Lewis - Stamford Gibson Celebrity Lilly Curnelia - Cookie Queen Celebrity Doreen Rowe - Leadership Cookies Jim Currie - Frontier Cookies Maria Stamatos - Gus's Cookies |
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2010 Official Cookie Judges
Gerri Barnes Owner The Café Connection
Mary Moore Owner Crossroads Café
Sue Grenier and Betsie Greeley Casual Catering
Dianne Shedd Cook at the Children’s Center
Mary Webb Coordinator Broad St. United Methodist Church’s soup kitchen.
Katha Root Director WIC Program Opportunities for Chenango |
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A Night of Cookies & Cream
THURSDAY JANUARY 28TH NORWICH FIRE HOUSE DOWNTOWN NORWICH 7:00 PM
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FREE COOKIES AND MILK FOR THE ENTIRE FAMILY Come and bid on local celebrity cookies and help us raise funds to support the children’s center Scholarship Program.
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Thank you Sponsors…
NORWICH-SIDNEY PENNYSAVERS
NY CENTRAL RADIO GROUP |
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To all our Celebrities who kindly contributed their baking talents to help us raise funds for the Children’s Center program. To all the last year’s celebrities who sent contributions to support the program. To the Norwich Sidney Pennysaver for contributing advertising for our community outreach efforts. To the Central New York Radio Group for helping us raise awareness of the event. To Chief Chawgo for opening the doors of the Firehouse and going above the call of duty to help us put together the event. To Mc Donald’s Restaurant for the donation of milk for the children. To Newman’s Own for their kind donation or organic cookies for the Cookies and Cream event. To Price Chopper for their donation of toddler cookies for the event. To Patrick Mc Neil and Tom Morrone for their assistance in securing our Government Celebrities. To Cindi Patafi from CWS for volunteering her time and talent to lead the Silent Auction efforts. To the team at SUNY Morrisville Child Care Education program for volunteers services at the event. To artist Storm Hammond for donating her artistic talents to create the one-of-a-kind cookie jar trophies To Maggie O’Connor, Marilyn Korchesperger and Jeanne Macy for calling to volunteer at the event. To all the Norwich Dance Club members who raised money to nominate Fran Roberts as their celebrity. To the Leadership Chenango team for their volunteer services at the Cookies and Cream event. To Michael O’Connor for donating his musical talent to entertain our families at the event. To all the cookie judges (mentioned above) for their willingness to try all the cookies and decide the best choice. MORE THANK YOU MESSAGES TO COME….
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