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Photo Interview Opps with NYC Kids for First Fresh Air Fund Bus Arrival!

EVENT:                                 THE FRESH AIR FUND Blue Mountain Area, PA COMMITTEE WELCOMES

                                    NEW YORK CITY CHILDREN

a small group ofNew York City children arrive in Myerstown to spend one or two weeks with volunteer host families in Lebanon, Newmanstown, and Bernville

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DATE:                                    7/16/2013

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ARRIVAL TIME:                  5:00 PM

 

PLACE:                                  United Church of Christ

                                                310 W Main Ave

                                                Myerstown, PA17067-1023

 

INTERVIEWS:                     Lena Weaver, Fresh Air Fund volunteer
                                               
Local host families
                                                Fresh Air children

 

The Blue Mountain Area, PACommittee will be welcoming a small group of New York City children as they arrive in Myerstown on 7/16/2013. Volunteer host families share their summers for up to two weeks with Fresh Air children, ages six to 18, who leave behind the city streets to run barefoot in the grass or see the stars at night. Some children are leaving home for the first time, while others are returning to visit the same host families for consecutive summers.

 

The Fresh Air Fund is an independent, not-for-profit agency that has provided free summer experiences to more than 1.7 million New York City children from low-income communities since 1877. Each summer, over 4,000 children visit volunteer host families in rural, suburban and small town communities across 13 states from Virginia to Maine and Canada through The Fresh Air Fund’s Volunteer Host Family Program.

 

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