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2008 Donations
Peter Woodbury Playground Project May $500.00
Riddlebrook School - Artist In Residence May $500.00
Bedford Bobcats Special Olympics May $1,000.00
West High Power Knights First Robotics May $500.00
Bedford Girls Softball April $500.00
Bedford Little League Challenger Division April $550.00
Stand By Me March $750.00
Bedford High School Newspaper February $500.00
Bedford Fire Department November $1,000.00
Bedford Babe Ruth September $1,000.00
Bedford Basketball October $310.00
American Legion Baseball July $1,000.00
2008 Scholarship June $1,000.00
2008 Scholarship June $1,000.00
2008 Scholarship June $1,000.00


2009 Donations
President Dave Gilbert presenting a check for $500.00 to Laura Pace, Bedford Little League Challenger Division Coordinator.
 
President Dave Gilbert presents a check for $500. to Cheryl Halley from the Riddlebrook School for the Artist in Residence Program.
President Dave Gilbert presents a check for $500. to Ed Eldridge from Bedford Girls Softball.
President Dave Gilbert presents a check for $500. to Adam Hickman, Seth Bishop, and Ed Forcier from the Power Knights First Robotics Team.
President Dave Gilbert presents a chck to Emmy Watt of Stand By Me for McKelvie School for 2009
 
Steve Lawlor BMC Treasurer presents a $1,000 Check to Sue Mullen of the Bedford Bobcats Special Olympics Team!
The Bedford Mens Club proudly supports Bedford Special Olympics Team the Bedford Bobcats! The club recently donated $1,000.00 to the team for uniforms and expenses to make sure the athletes get every opportunity to participate in the Olympics! 

Club purchases a rescue saw for the
Bedford Fire Department
FF Corey Fecteau, President David Gilbert and Deputy Chief Mark Klose with the new saw for Bedford Fire and Rescue

With the help of the Bedford Men's' Club there is a new Husqvarna K960 rotary disc saw on Engine 4 replacing the old rotary saw. The blade on the saw is a diamond multi-purpose wet/dry rescue blade that can cut concrete, plastic, metal, and wood The K960 saw is also a wet/dry saw. A hose can be attached and the saw can be used to cut masonry. The purchase allows firefighters to use the saw on vehicle accidents to cut the car away from the victim, make entry into building through steel doors and cut heavy gauge metals and concrete during rescue operations.
The Mens Club is proud to assist the Fire Department help make Bedford a safer place to live.
Members John and Jeff Agla and Bill Thomas with Michael Street installing a new washer and dryer for the Street Family project
Street Family project

The members of the club recently assisted the community on the Street Family extreme make over. The club was glad to help with some of the physical help and also financially through the purchase and donation of a new washer and dryer. The Washer was donated by a former Bedford resident and the club purchased a dryer.
The members were proud to assist on such a great project.
Dave Costa from Bedford Babe Ruth Base Ball receives a $1,000. check from President Dave Gilbert to help with the light at the new field.
The club has agreed to assist the Bedford Babe Ruth League with funding the light at the new field.  President Dave Gilbert presented the BBRL to the league President Dave Costa at the November meeting.
Cell phones for Soldiers
Cell Phones for Soldiers Chairman Steve Fry "getting the call" to give recent donations of cell phones to President David Gilbert
 

CELL PHONES FOR SOLDIERS - A CHARITY WE SUPPORT

HOW YOU CAN HELP

 

The Club is assisting the organization Cell Phones For soldiers by collecting used cell phones and laptop computers, which are

sold and recycled.  The cash raised is then put into calling cards, which are given to soldiers overseas, so that they can call

home without spending their own money.

 

Cell Phones For Soldiers was started by two Massachusetts teenagers several years ago.  The program has been a huge success, and the young people have been widely recognized and applauded for their bright idea and their efforts. 

Donors are asked to drop off their old phone, with the battery and any other accessories they have.  The program also accepts laptop computers in working condition;

again the accessories help.  If the laptop is broken, please recycle it at the transfer station, with the other computers.

 

For more information, visit www.cellphonesforsoldiers.com, or contact Dave and Heather Michaels at 471-9130.  Or, you may call the current

Men's Club chairman of the program, Steve Fry, at 472-9066.

 

There are several drop-off points:

The Verizon Stores operated by Go Wireless.  In Bedford on South River road, adjacent to the liquor store and Hannaford Market.

 

In Merrimack on the west side of the Everett turnpike at exit 11, in the Shaw's Plaza.

 

The Bedford Town Offices.

The Bedford Transfer Station - look for the barrel with the big sign on it.

The State House in Concord.

Harvest Market, Customer Service desk, corner of Highway 101 and Wallace Road.

 

To date, the Bedford Men's Club has collected thousands of phones for the program, yielding hundreds of thousands of minutes of talk time for our troops

who are away from home, fighting for us.

The members of the Mens Club have been long supporters of the Stand By Me program since it's inception. The club feels this is a fantastic event for students to interact with their parents and for parents to interact with their teenagers. Many of the members and their children have participated in the program making it all that much more worthwhile.
Dave Gilbert, President of The Bedford Men's Club presents a $750 donation to Michelle Casale, board member of The Educational Farm at Joppa Hill. This brings the amount to $1,750 which The Bedford Men's Club has donated to the Farm towards the purchase of a portable handicap ramp. The ramp will be used to assist disabled individuals participating in the Farm's therapeutic riding program to begin this summer.
Bedford Men’s Club donates $1,750.00 to The Educational Farm at Joppa Hill for Handicap Ramp Bedford, NH –  The Bedford Men’s club has donated $1,750.00 to The Educational Farm at Joppa Hill towards the purchase of a portable handicap ramp for wheel chair bound children.  The ramp will enable the children to be put directly on the horses’ back as part of a therapeutic riding program. 

Therapeutic riding promotes the benefit of the horse for individuals with physical, emotional and learning disabilities.  For individuals with disabilities, equine assisted activities have been shown to improve strength, balance, coordination, as well as self-esteem.

“The Bedford Men’s Club is a true partner and has been a long time supporter of the Farm”, said Andy Egan, Chairman of The Educational Farm at Joppa Hill.  “They have always been willing to help us either monetarily or through manpower.  They are a truly caring and altruistic organization.” The Bedford Men’s Club is a non-profit organization designed to promote the betterment of the community.  All money raised by The Bedford Men’s Club goes to support their main objective, which is to help support local education and recreational youth programs.

The Educational Farm at Joppa Hill is a non-profit 501C3 organization, established and operated exclusively for the charitable and educational purposes of increasing public awareness of the meaning and importance of sustainable agriculture, specifically including but not limited to the operation of an agricultural education center and working farm

 

 

 

 

 

 




Donations Made By The Bedford Mens Club