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Supportive Connections

Florence Bank recently sponsored Cancer Connection’s 2024 Harvest Dinner and Silent Auction on Oct. 17 with a $7,000 gift to support the organization, which serves as a haven for people with a cancer diagnosis and their caregivers. Offering a broad range of free services, the nonprofit will celebrate its 25th anniversary next year.

Pictured: Shelley Daughdrill (left), Retail Banking director and senior vice president of Retail Administration at Florence Bank, with Chelsea Kline, executive director of Cancer Connection.

Fore a Good Cause

PDC Inc., a leading walls and ceilings contractor with offices in Massachusetts, Connecticut, and New York, raised a grand total of $100,000 during its ninth annual golf tournament held on Sept. 5 at Crestview Country Club in Agawam. Of that, $50,000 was donated to the Gray House Inc. in Springfield, and the other half benefited 87 charities primarily located throughout Massachusetts and Connecticut, in addition to several national organizations.

Pictured: PDC Inc. co-owners Ron Perry (left) and Nick Shaink (right) present a check to Kristen McClintock, executive director of the Gray House.

Boosting a Community Resource

Monson Savings Bank recently presented a $1,000 donation to Monson Free Library as part of the 2024 Monson Savings Bank Community Giving Initiative, in which the public was given the opportunity to vote on which nonprofits would receive a donation from the bank in 2024. A valuable resource center for people of all ages, the library offers educational tools through diverse collections, services, technology, and programming.

Pictured: Hope Bodwell (left), Monson Free Library director, with Michael Rouette, executive vice president and chief operating officer at Monson Savings Bank.

Allied for Two Charities

Through its first annual charity golf tournament at Crestview Country Club, Allied Flooring, Paint and Design and Budget Cabinet Sales made donations to two local charities: $10,429.86 to Junior Achievement (JA) of Western Massachusetts and $10,429.86 to Gándara Center in Holyoke. 

Pictured: from left, Allied President Mario Tedeschi, JA of Western Massachusetts President Amie Miarecki, JA board co-chair Tracey Alves, JA board member Joe Williams, and Allied President of Sales Jorge Morgado.

Pictured: from left, Tedeschi, Gándara Center CEO Lois Nesci, and Morgado.

Critical Donations

On Oct. 9, the Palmer Ambulance Service sponsored its fourth annual Ambulance, Police and Fire Department Blood Drive in partnership with the Baystate Health Blood Donor Team at Baystate Wing Hospital (pictured with Palmer Ambulance Service EMT Mary Lee Frydryk, center). “One donation can save up to three lives,” said Nicole VanZandt, supervisor of BRL Blood Donor Services. “We are grateful to the Palmer Ambulance Service and the Palmer Police and Fire Department team members who gave blood. As a result of their friendly competition, we received 26 blood donations.”

Baystate Health Blood Donor Team at Baystate Wing Hospital pictured with Palmer Ambulance Service EMT Mary Lee Frydryk, center.