We received almost $14,000 in food and monetary donations over the two days and are so grateful that we live in a community with so many kind, caring and generous people.
We would like to thank Market Basket for allowing us to hold our Fourth annual event at their Leominster Store. The managers and employees were absolutely amazing doing everything they could to help us. Mr. Frank Parreira, the store manager, was extremely supportive throughout the two days even getting on the store intercom system to tell the story behind Kylee's mission and asking Market Basket customers for their support. Mr. Charlie Branch did a fabulous job in ordering all the food that we needed to package the blue tote bags with food and to keep the individual items available for purchase. We would also like to acknowledge all the employees who were so supportive and instrumental in making this event such a success. Thank you all!
A very special thank you to our team for their continued support and dedication to the mission of helping the food insecure children in the community! From our adult kare kit krew, to the middle and high school team all the way to our newest Jr Team members and their families we couldn't have done this without you. Many of you remained at the event from 7 am to 9 pm!! We are so grateful for all of you!! You were all amazing !!
A special thanks to our friends from Excel Church for volunteering with us on Saturday and for Chris Potter from AIS .
The biggest thank you goes to the members of our community who came out and supported us. We are true believers that we couldn't do this alone and that we are able to help 445 food insecure children in our community because of the support of everyone in our community and beyond. Whether you made a monetary donation, purchased a gift card, a pre-packaged bag of food, an individual item or just stopped by to learn about our mission or give us words of encouragement we thank you! This event was successful because of all of you! We will be able to provide food to many children because of your kindness and generosity and for that we truly thank you all!!
With warmest regards,
Kylee McCumber & Lori Bateman
