|
Families in Need to Enjoy
Delicious Thanksgiving Dinner
Donated by Top Chefs and Generous Volunteers
For the 21st year in a row, Food and Beverage Association
volunteers to cook and serve Thanksgiving meal for over
fifteen hundred children and families at annual
Children’s Aid Society dinner in Harlem
When: Wednesday, November 23, 2011
4:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m.
Where: The Children’s Aid Society
Dunlevy Milbank Community Center
14-32 West 118th Street, between Lenox and Fifth Avenues
What: The spirit of Thanksgiving will be on full view at
Children’s Aid’s Dunlevy Milbank Center on Wednesday, as
chefs from some of New York’s finest hotels and restaurants
team up to provide a luscious Thanksgiving dinner for
hundreds of New York’s disadvantaged children and their
families.
Thanks to the generosity of the Food and Beverage
Association of America, this is the 21th year that this
special dinner is being served at the Dunlevy Milbank
Center. Wayne Whinna, Director of Food and Beverage at The
Sheraton New York Hotel & Towers, will head up the culinary
efforts for the 10th year. Wayne Whinna and his staff will
cook 275 turkeys at 20 lbs. each, plus all the trimmings.
For the 21st consecutive year, Gladys Mouton Di Stefano,
President of the Food & Beverage Association and President
of At Your Service Party Consulting, LLC, is organizing, the
dinner and coordinating all donations. Members, family
members and friends of The Food and Beverage Association
donate all the food, decorations and table settings for the
dinner, prepare and serve the food.
Among the children and families celebrating at the dinner
will be the homeless families who live at Children’s Aid’s
Pelham Fritz Apartments (a homeless shelter for families)
across the street from the Dunlevy Milbank Center; formerly
homeless families who return for this special celebration;
and hundreds of other families from the Harlem community
served by the Dunlevy Milbank Center all year. A DJ will
entertain diners during the meal and a raffle will
distribute more cooked turkeys to the families in
attendance.
The Children’s Aid Society is an independent, not-for-profit
organization established to serve the children of New York
City. Our mission is to help children in poverty to succeed
and thrive. We do this by providing comprehensive supports
to children and their families in targeted high-needs New
York City neighborhoods. Founded in 1853, it is one of the
nation’s largest and most innovative non-sectarian agencies,
serving New York’s neediest children. Services are provided
in community schools, neighborhood centers, health clinics
and camps. For additional information, please call Anthony
Ramos at (212) 949-4938/ (917) 204-8214, email
anthonyr@childrensaidsociety.org or visit
www.childrensaidsociety.org .
|