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Boca Helping Hands Needs Help

Providing More Thanksgiving Dinners Than Ever Before

Boca Helping Hands (BHH) is seeking help from the community for its 17th annual
Thanksgiving Box Brigade program, which provides turkeys and a box filled with everything
a family needs to prepare a holiday meal. Members of the community can fill a box with
Thanksgiving dinner essentials. Alternatively, the cost of a box this year is $27.15, which can
be donated at BocaHelpingHands.org/Thanksgiving. All filled boxes must be received at Boca
Helping Hands by Monday, November 15.
Prior to the pandemic, Boca Helping Hands typically distributed about 2,000 turkeys and
Thanksgiving meal boxes each year. In 2020, BHH expanded to four locations and distributed a
record 2,700 turkeys to local families, including to many new families who registered for food
assistance due to COVID-19. This year, the organization estimates needing to source 3,000
turkeys and Thanksgiving meal boxes with the addition of a fifth location in Delray Beach.

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Fuller Center Graduate Returns

To Participate In The Promise Program

Fuller Center, a to develop soft skills and good work habits, all necessary for future academic and employment
nonprofit focused success.
on e m bra c i ng , One of The Promise Program teens is Felipe Gutierez, who attended Fuller Center
e d u c a t i n g a n d (formerly Florence Fuller Child Development Center) as a baby through VPK. Now in his
empowering under sophomore year at Atlantic Community High School, Gutierez, a Delray Beach resident, is
resourced children returning to the Fuller Center as a teen leader and has been recruiting other teens from his
and families to school for The Promise Program.
achieve their full “As a kid, I loved the atmosphere at Fuller Center as well as the staff and counselors.
potential, will They had a really good connection with all of the students and the field trips were amazing,”
launch The Promise said Gutierez. “I always had a connection with the Fuller Center and I am confident that the
Program with 16 Fuller Center will give me opportunities I need for later in life.”
teenage participants At Atlantic High School, Gutierez plays volleyball and basketball and was in the Key Club.
this October. The Once The Promise Program begins, Gutierez will create and implement a sports program
Promise Program for the kids and teach the children something new each week.
will provide teens
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Junior League Of Boca Raton

To Open New Community Garden – Brightline, City Of

Boca Raton Instrumental In Making Garden A Reality

The Junior League of Boca Raton (JLBR) will unveil its new community garden
on Saturday, Oct. 16 at 10 a.m. at Meadows Park at 1300 N.W. 8th Street, Boca Raton
with a ceremonial ribbon cutting. As part of the garden’s reopening, the city will be
celebrating Arbor Day with a tree giveaway for city residents. The trees will be native
and fruiting trees. More information will be provided by the city in the coming weeks.
“We were delighted to work with the city and Brightline to move the JLBR

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