Archive: February, 2012

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.

We Have a Winner!

Actually, we had a whole bunch of winners during the GMC Bingo Tournament, held Sunday February 12! And, even more importantly, we had a whole bunch of fun!

The event kicked-off around noon, when lunch was served. I brought turkey sandwiches with cheese, lettuce and tomato, which were a hit with the GMC clients, as were the homemade chocolate and banana chip cookies.
Then it was Bingo time!

My friend Hunter Riley showed maturity beyond his teenage years as he called the numbers, verified the winners and bantered with the crowd. Another friend of mine, Hassan Kenney, donated three $10 Subway gift cards as grand prizes (Hassan also donated funds toward the sandwiches and cookies).

I played Vanna White to Hunter’s Pat Sajak, giving out Hershey’s kisses for luck, awarding handfuls of chocolate to the winners of each round and keeping track of who was eligible to win the grand prizes.

After six rounds of Bingo, we had five winners: Tony, Soreta, Hakim, Damian and Osman. The first grand prize gift card was awarded to Osman, since he had won two rounds. Then it was time for the other four winners to compete in a “Sudden Death” round for the two remaining gift cards.

There was tension in the room as people got behind their favorite and cheered them on. In the end, Tony and Damian were the first two to declare Bingo and each walked away with a $10 Subway gift card.

As I said, a good time was had by all. Hunter and I are looking at dates to do another Sunday Bingo tournament in March. If you’re like to help us, or just donate toward lunch or the grand prizes, please let me know!

Jeanne Jennings
Jeanne@JeaJen.com

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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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!

photo taken from the Georgetown BID

Come join GMC’s Walking Group!

Come join GMC staff and members, friends of GMC, and Georgetown residents for a weekly walk around Georgetown. Our hope is to educate ourselves about the neighborhood and to meet others who call Georgetown “home.”

Everyone is welcome; feel free to walk your dog with us or bring your little one in a stroller. We have yet to set a day or time, so please leave a comment on our blog or Facebook (or email stephanie@gmcgt.org) letting us know what a convenient time would be for you!

Stay tuned for details about our first walk!