Tuesday, April 2, 2013
10-year-old Eddie Roia spent his 2012 April vacation walking across the state to raise money for the Bristol Animal Shelter.
Update: The Eddie's Challenge Facebook page reported that Eddie raised more than $4,300 in cash and about $1,000 in supply donations. Original story, March 7, 2012: Rhode Island is so small you could walk across it in a few hours. Or is it? What started as an innocent joke regarding the size of the smallest state in the U.S. has set one 10-year-old boy on a physical, educational, and rewarding journey to prove that his home state isn't so tiny, all while raising money for a local animal shelter. Fourth grader Eddie Roia of Riverside, along with his grandmother and homeschool teacher Jeanne Casiano, decided to put a creative twist on a school project by intertwining Roia's studies with a way to benefit the Bristol Animal Shelter. "…
Monday, April 16, 2012
Eddie's Challenge, an educational fundraising walk to benefit the Bristol Animal Shelter, began on Saturday morning at the shelter.
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Monday, April 16, 2012
On Saturday morning, dozens of supporters of the Bristol Animal Shelter participated in Eddie's Challenge, a walk across Rhode Island to benefit the shelter. The challenge, a home school project for 10-year-old Eddie Roia, started as a simple, fun and educational project for Roia and his grandmother to participate in but has since turned into a full fledged fundraiser to support the Bristol Animal Shelter. Roia, who had an initial goal to raise $500 to create a Kids Corner once the new shelter is built, has more than quadrupled his goal and has surpassed the $3,000 mark. According to Animal Control Officer Jen Federico, the excess money will be added to the shelter's capital campaign. Take a moment to click through the slideshow to see the…
Tuesday, February 21, 2012
Bristol resident and military mom JoAnne Camara is on a mission to pay it forward to an organization serving the United States military.
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Tuesday, February 21, 2012
JoAnne Camara has been chosen as The Huffington Post's Greatest Person of the Day for Feb. 24. You can read about past honorees here. One Bristol resident has taken it upon herself to find ways to help fund a volunteer organization that makes and ships quilts to members of the military. Military mom JoAnne Camara has seen her son off on three deployments in the last four years. So when her son Thomas was deployed to Afghanistan for the second time on Jan. 2, 2012, Camara sought to keep his spirits up by sending him a quilt made by volunteers in Wisconsin. They're not just any quilts, though: these are made from the same material as military uniforms so that the troops can use them out in the open and strap them to the outside of their …
Tuesday, November 15, 2011
A nine year old Bristol resident collected 343 stuffed animals to donate to families who are less fortunate.
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Tuesday, November 15, 2011
Wise beyond his years, nine-year-old Andrew Kallman already understands the importance of helping others and has demonstrated what just one young boy can do by organizing his own stuffed animal drive for a local charity. "It is always better to give than to receive," Kallman said after he and his mother, Julie, lugged 343 stuffed animals into Bristol Good Neighbor's Soup Kitchen to be donated. Though Kallman may sound as though he's rehearsed the quote a hundred times before, his humility and sincerity show through in his willingness and eagerness to help others. Over the summer, the fourth grade Guiteras Elementary School student teamed up with his sister and gathered 70 of their own stuffed animals to donate to Bristol Good Neighbors. …
Thursday, October 20, 2011
Julianna Hamor gives domestic violence victims the support they need.
Julianna Hamor holds a stack of papers close to her chest as she walks out of the Warren Police Department to her car. When she returns to her office at the Women's Resource Center, she looks over each page, carefully reading each victim's story of domestic violence, then picks up the phone and begins dialing. "Usually I'm the first person that a victim talks to after the police," Hamor said, "and they can be very vulnerable, distraught and confused right after the trauma of an assault or attack." Hamor, the Law Enforcement Advocate for Bristol, Warren, Barrington and Tiverton, works as a liason between the local police departments and victims of domestic violence. She works closely with the victims after an arrest, assisting them by …
Monday, September 26, 2011
Laurie Cordeiro has been battling a rare and aggressive form of breast cancer for the past two years.
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Monday, September 26, 2011
Laurie Cordeiro's short, thinned purple hair shimmered in the sun as she glanced at the powerful words inscribed on the side of the pink Hope Bus. Fixed on the word "strength," she smiled wide. "I think everyone has this inside of them, but they don’t always know it's there," Cordeiro said. "It's not until you are pushed to your utmost limit that you realize, you can do anything." Cordeiro, 49, of Bristol, has been battling a rare and aggressive form of breast cancer for two years, but her condition and even her chemotherapy can't keep her from helping others and living her life to the fullest. "Cancer or not, do all the things you said you were going to do," she said. "Because we don’t know if we have tomorrow." In 2009, Cordeiro was …
Lynn Shaw
11:04 pm on Tuesday, April 2, 2013
Great job Eddie!! You are quite the inspiring young man!! more ›