The Washington Club honored GMC with a Community Service Award at their annual Have a Heart Luncehon on Valentine’s Day. We are grateful to Arden Batch of the Club and as an active member of Holy Trinity Church in Georgetown for nominating us.
Turnabout is fair play in these sorts of events, and GMC surprised Arden with our own community service award for her work with a homeless individual, Keith. As much as we try to connect with people, sometimes it takes a different approach. Arden reached out to Keith and connected him with a core service agency, eventually getting him into housing. She wins our community service award.
GMC’s consulting psychiatrist, Ron Koshes, gave the keynote speech entitled “The History of Homelessness.” We also debuted the informational video about GMC that Nelson Cuellar, a local filmmaker, made for us.
We are grateful to all of our friends who took time out of their busy day to join us. It was a great event. You can see more pictures of the event in our Have a Heart album on Facebook.
Are you weak for chocolate?
If you’ve been in Georgetown recently, you may have seen this logo for fliers for this event. For an entire week starting February 13th, one can enjoy chocolate-inspired food, drinks, and dessert specials offered by Georgetown merchants when he or she purchases a Week For Chocolate badge from SalesVote.com.
Week For Chocolate will donate 10% of designated badge sales to Georgetown Ministry Center. When customers purchase their badge, they will have the option to select one of four organizations of which they would like their donation to be given. We hope you will choose us!
Keep reading to see the list of participating merchants and their offers.
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Water Street Gym Coat Drive
Steve and Susan Kostorowski, along with Patricia Peva, of Water Street Gym presided over one of the largest coat drives in Georgetown history. The timing was perfect. Over 90 beautiful coats in mint condition along with assorted hats, gloves, and scares were delivered to GMC today by the folks of Water Street Gym. The Gym held a coat drive over the last month and a half. Thank you, Waterstreet Gym. Thank You!
Today we sang a rousing rendition of Happy Birthday to our members and staff born in January (and a few Decembers who missed the celebration last month). It was the most lively singing of the birthday song we’ve had to date!
We couldn’t have done it without this beautiful and delicious 3-tier carrot cake from Serendipity 3! Dorothy, a staff member born in December, says carrot cake is her favorite kind. YUM!
THANK YOU to everyone who participated in the Point in Time survey, helped us canvass the streets, or sent us tips. We couldn’t have done it without you!
(Image is not from last night's survey.)
