Angels Among Us: 2008
These four New Englanders are making a difference, one life at a time. Pauline Alighieri remembers a friend in Massachusetts with a foundation that funds cancer research, Friends of Mel, friendsofmel.org. Brenden Gobell is a teen angel who volunteers with his family at a homeless shelter in Connecticut, South Park Inn, southparkinn.org. Deborah Descenza brings […]
By Carol Cambo
Oct 24 2008
Service to others is a family tradition for Friends of Mel founder Pauline Alighieri, and her mother, Helen Ouellette, who banded together last year to raise money for cancer treatment and research.
Photo Credit : Kalinowski, MattThese four New Englanders are making a difference, one life at a time. Pauline Alighieri remembers a friend in Massachusetts with a foundation that funds cancer research, Friends of Mel, friendsofmel.org. Brenden Gobell is a teen angel who volunteers with his family at a homeless shelter in Connecticut, South Park Inn, southparkinn.org. Deborah Descenza brings developmentally disabled adults together to work on a farm in New Hampshire, Farmsteads of New England, farmsteads-ne.org. And Linda Gilbert rallies her Vermont friends to send aid to Honduras, Vermont Hands to Honduras-Tela, handstohonduras.org.
Read about past Angels of 2007 and 2006.
Here are the newly selected Angels for 2008: