Suzanne Turpin of Mahan & Nash Public Relations sends us this holiday cheer story:
Every holiday season
members of Junior Circle visit the boys who live at Hathaway-Sycamores'
Child and Family Services' residential treatment center in Altadena,
and lead them in Christmas carols. This year a group of 11 women
caroled with the boys, ages 9-18, brought homemade cookies, and
presented each boy with a wrapped holiday gift, courtesy of
Pasadena-based eHobbies.com. This caroling activity is a long-standing
tradition of Junior Circle and Hathaway-Sycamores. The Junior Circle
members, who live in Pasadena, Altadena and South Pasadena, visit the
boys all year long, and bring each boy a birthday cake, and plan
special activities such as race-car nights, marshmallow structure
building and bingo. Hathaway-Sycamores’ residential treatment center
is a therapeutic
home away from home where abused, abandoned and troubled boys receive
nurturing, healing therapeutic mental health services.
Photo id: Junior Circle members: (front) Vicki Thompson; (back l-r)
Myrna Ling, Nancy Perez (Junior Circle president), Christina Mendoza,
Tricia Ferrante, Mary Ditt, Sandee Hiyake, Karen Kikkawa, Sandra
Crawford.
Photo courtesy of Hathaway-Sycamores.