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Boca Helping Hands Provides Weekend Food

For Kids From Achievement Centers

For Children, Families And Boys & Girls Clubs

When COVID-19 closed local schools in March, Boca The BHH Backpacks program normally partners with
Helping Hands (BHH) found itself with weekend meals 12 local elementary schools in Boca Raton, Delray Beach,
originally slated to go home with food-insecure elementary and Boynton Beach to provide weekend meals for 1,200
school students for the remainder of the school year. In food-insecure students during the August-May public school
collaboration with two local organizations, BHH has been year. When the pandemic closed schools in the spring, the
utilizing that food to ensure that 350 children stay fed when Achievement Centers for Children and Families and Boys
the school feeding programs are closed. & Girls Club of Boca Raton reached out to BHH about
In late May, BHH began providing weekend meals to providing food for their families while children were out of
150 children from Achievement Centers for Children and school. Each organization began receiving breakfast Jump
Families each Friday. In early July, BHH started supplying Start kits (juice, graham crackers and cereal) once a week
weekend meals to 200 children from Boys & Girls Clubs of and expanded to utilizing the remaining food from BHH’s
Boca Raton and Delray Beach every week. Each participating 2019-2020 Backpacks inventory.
child goes home with six meals, three snacks, two juice “We are so appreciative that Boca Helping Hands has
boxes, and two shelf stable milks: the typical contents of a been providing food for the kids each Friday. This makes a
BHH backpack. real difference in the lives of the children we serve,” Jessica
“Without this help, these food insecure children might Hall, director, Events and Communications for Achievement
not get enough to eat over the weekend. We’re pleased to be Centers for Children and Families said.
able to provide these meals,” Greg Hazle, executive director
of Boca Helping Hands said. Boca Helping Hands on page 3
Boca Raton Museum Of Art Presents New Video Art

Installation: Solitary Acts By Janet Biggs

Inaugurates One Of Mrs. Sidney Wolgin, Dr. William Wolgin, Shelley Wolgin Sharla, and Noah. The contribution is one of the largest

The Museum’s Newest Gold and Jeffrey Gold, and Andrea and Daniel Wolgin, cash gifts in the museum’s history and underscores years of
together provided a seed gift of $50,000 to support ongoing
dedicated stewardship shown by the family: Jody has served
Architectural Renovations: The programming for the new multipurpose space. With their as chair of the museum’s Board of Trustees since 2016. The
gift, the museum created the 70th Anniversary Education
Grass gift made possible the completion of the education
Wolgin Education Center Fund. Donations to the fund will purchase state-of-the-art center and the new lobby projects. Their support, along with
audiovisual equipment to enliven award-winning programs, another key gift of $600,000 from Nick and Patricia Ohnell,
The Boca Raton Museum of Art recently unveiled Phase lectures and film screenings. Contributions will support now allow the museum to start on changing and improving the
III of its architectural renovations with the debut of the program expenses, including our education mornings when entrance path and renovating the sculpture garden–projects
new Wolgin Education Center, which features major new 5,000 students each year learn the art of looking and making. anticipated to be completed in 2021 in celebration of the 20th
art installations. One of these new works of art is the video This second phase of architectural renovations, completed Anniversary of the museum in Mizner Park.
installation Solitary Acts by Janet Biggs, which will be on in June 2020, positions the museum as a fresh cultural
exhibit through Sept. 27. landmark in downtown Boca Raton, and as a more vital Boca Raton Museum Of Art on page 2
Solitary Acts is presented as a large-scale projection on educational resource for
the wall. This exhibition is made possible with the support the whole community. The
of the museum’s leadership donors. generosity and commitment
The museum’s new Wolgin Education Center takes of the museum’s patrons make
prominence at the entry to the museum with full exposure to possible these key projects.
Mizner Park and visitors passing the museum. In 2001, the To that end, the museum
space was named the Wolgin Auditorium in recognition of a and the community celebrate
generous gift from Mr. and Mrs. Sidney Wolgin and Dr. and the recent gift of $1 million
Mrs. William Wolgin to support the original construction. from Jody and Martin Grass
Recently, three generations of Wolgins, including and their children Leila,

Courtesy of the Boca Raton Museum of Art and the artist