On behalf of the staff at Home Instead Senior Care, I would like to thank everyone who helped with this year’s very successful Be a Santa to a Senior program.
With support from so many kind-hearted shoppers in our community, and generous area businesses, we collected more than 7,000 gifts for over 3,500 local seniors who otherwise might have been overlooked this holiday season.
We appreciate businesses who hosted the tree locations and those who gave monetary and gift donations.
Tree locations: ARTT Studio 4 Hair; Cape Henlopen Senior Center; City of Dover Library; Deakyne Dental Associates; Delmar Town Hall; Dover Mall; Halpern Eye Associates (all locations); Holiday Inn Dover Downtown; Hometown Drugs; Kent County Tourism; Modern Maturity Center; Nobles Pond; Outlet Liquors; Paintiques Gallery; Patterson Schwartz Real Estate; Peebles (Milford, Seaford, Rehoboth); Rehoboth Car Wash; Talbots Clothing Store; United Health Care; Walmart-Camden; Wells Fargo Home Mortgage.
Monetary and gift donations: Affinity Entertainment, Alzheimer’s Association; Avenue Medical; John & Amanda Backus; Thomas and Caroline Baxter; Bayhealth; Beebe Healthcare; Cape Gazette; Cape Henlopen Senior Center; Capital City Rotary, Central Delaware Chamber of Commerce; Cheddar’s Casual Café; Compassionate Care Hospice; Delaware Electric Cooperative; Delaware Micro-Computer; Delaware State News; Delmarva Broadcasting; Linda Dorsten; Dover Federal Credit Union; Dover Rotary; Deborah Edwards; Faw Casson; First State Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery; Shirley Foxwell; George & Lynch; Grotto Pizza of Dover; Hampton Inn of Dover; Holiday Inn Dover Downtown; Hometown Drugs; Jim & Sonya Hughes; Richard & Diane Iardella; Jen Mor Florist; State Farm Insurance (Katie Bennett); Kent County Levy Court; Knights of Columbus (7297); Knights Fine Jewelry; Lori Speed; Lowes of Camden; Lowes of Dover; Maryjane Copes; Merry Maids of Camden; Michael Angelo’s Hair Design; Modern Maturity Center; Moe’s Southwest Grill; Nancy Wagner; The Nedock Family; Joe and Dawn O’Connell; Party Décor & More; Paul Edwards Carpet; Chuck & Anne Perrin; Piazza Mia; PWW Law;
Residence Inn of Dover; Rite Aid (North & South Dover); Round Table of Camden; Rudy’s Family Restaurant; Sayer's Jewelers & Gemologists; Seafood City; Sears; Senator Carper’s Administrative Office; Signs by Tomorrow; Smyrna Diner; Donna Stone; Douglas Thompson; Eugenia Thornton; Town of Camden; James and Lydia Tucker; United Health Care; Walker Square Dental; Walmart of Camden; Wells Fargo Home Mortgage; and WGMD.
Many thanks to Modern Maturity Center and Cape Henlopen Senior Center for hosting our gift wrapping parties. Special thanks to the Hampton Inn in Dover for donating a suite so that the Be a Santa Team could set up Santa’s Workshop. Cindy Price (general manager) and her amazing staff also volunteered countless hours in helping to sort and wrap gifts.
Finally kudos to the many volunteers who shared their time to collect, wrap and deliver the gifts to Delaware seniors who continue to struggle with financial challenges and loneliness. Without the community none of this would be possible. We are truly grateful.
Robert Ware
managing director
Home Instead Senior Care
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