Sunday, October 27, 2013

Portbury Follies once again a dazzling night

        

Portbury Follies once again a dazzling night

To the editor:
Roof Over Head Collaborative, Inc. hosted The Third Annual Portbury Follies at The Firehouse Center for the Arts on Friday, Sept. 6. The evening celebrated the community and its very talented and brave candidates running in this year’s election.
We would like to thank the following organizations and individuals for their support: The Firehouse Center for the Arts; Boston Beer Company; Carry Out Cafe; Diane Xenelis and Starbucks; Shelley Parish Photography; Leary’s Wine and Spirits; Anchor Stone Deck Pizza, Fowles Gourmet Market, Dianne’s Fine Desserts, Not Your Average Joe’s, The Grand Trunk, Shaw’s, Joppa Fine Foods, Marzi Design, and Loretta Restaurant. We would also like to thank our sponsors: iMarc; Strem Chemical; Ej Ouelette and Whole Music; and The Dance Place.
We showcased an amazingly talented group of performers who dazzled and delighted our audience. These included: our wildly funny emcees Charlie Cullen and Esther Sayer and our performers: Ed Cameron, Laurel Allgrove, Sheila Mullins, Bruce Menin, Jared Eigerman, Charlie Tontar, Bob Cronin, Donna and Joe Holaday, Chris Welch, Lighthouse Trio, Barry Connell, The Dance Place, Ari Herzog, Meghan Kinsey, Greg Earls, Sean Reardon, Bruce Vogel, Ann Ormond, Leslie Eckholdt and EJO and Crazy Maggy, as well as Newburyport High School student Max DiMartino and Central Catholic student Beth McDougall, both residents of Newburyport.
And special thanks to Susanne Cameron and Hailey Klein, our incredibly talented co-executive producers; Christin Walth — for her tireless efforts; our rock’n House Band: Lark Madden, Ken Okaya, and Tomas Havrda; with Joe Holaday, and our dedicated Board of Directors: Bill Abbott, Leslie Eckholdt, Susanne Cameron, Kate Lee, Walter Power and Lark Madden.
Roof will continue to support our community providing transitional, supportive housing to homeless and at-risk families in our community.
Walter Power and Kerri Sheeran Perry
Co-presidents, Roof Over Head Collaborative

Sunday, August 25, 2013

WALK 4 THE POOR


      

Come join us to fight poverty in our community Immaculate Conception Parish

Society of St. Vincent de Paul


When: Saturday – September 28, 2013

             Registration: 8:15 – 9 am

             Start time:     9:00 am

Distance 4K (2.5 miles)

Where:  Walk begins in the Immaculate Conception parking lot behind the school

Who:     Kids birth to 100 (kids under 12 must be accompanied by an adult)

 

If you talk the talk, you need to walk the walk

 Newburyport, Newbury, West Newbury

To make a donation: Send check to “Society of St Vincent de Paul – Walk

 C/O I.C. Parish 42 Green St., Newburyport, MA 01950

Or

Register to walk or to make a pledge online: at:  www.fopwalk.org

 

If you have questions e-mail - Jan Kolman at:

st.vincentdepaulic@gmail.com

Monday, June 3, 2013

A celebration of thanks

Last week we gathered to celebrate the incredible people, businesses, and organizations who have supported ROOF Over Head.  Their dedication to ROOF is invaluable and has made it possible for the organization to purchase its third home and welcome its fourth family.


Thank you!


Sunday, December 9, 2012

Today ROOF would like to thank...

B & R Glass and Mirror @ 6 Federal Street in Newburyport for generously donating time and materials to fix the screens and windows at our new unit! It takes contributions large and small to help "raise all ships" in the community - thank you Helen and sons at B & R for your help!

Sunday, December 2, 2012

Hungry? Help ROOF by dining at Not Your Average Joe's on Tuesdays!

It starts this Tuesday at Not Your Average Joe's! Print out the certificate below, give it to your server and ROOF gets 15% of your tab! Enjoy a great meal and help ROOF help local families in transition!(Every Tuesday in December AND Thursday 27 December in lieu of Christmas Day!)

It could be any of us....

Rock Center with Brian Williams did a story last week (Wednesday 28 November) on working homeless families - families who have done everything "right" but through medical issues, the rising costs for necessities, or other crisis that have altered earning power or family income, find themselves without a roof over head. The families profiled showed the difficulties for the children. Please watch - these are the families ROOF tries to help locally and with your help, is able to help keep together and keep kids in their schools.

http://rockcenter.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/11/28/15490042-employed-but-still-homeless-working-poor-say-homelessness-can-happen-to-anybody