BROTHERS MAKE A DIFFERENCE.Byline: DENNIS McCARTHY Dennis McCarthy may refer to:
The Bromley brothers won't be playing with their friends this weekend. They'll be too busy working. The pantry at Guadalupe Center is getting empty as the holidays approach. So instead of playing outdoors, the boys will spend their Saturday stocking the center's shelves with donated do·nate v. do·nat·ed, do·nat·ing, do·nates v.tr. To present as a gift to a fund or cause; contribute. v.intr. To make a contribution to a fund or cause. canned goods and nonperishable food for Make A Difference Day. More than 300 needy need·y adj. need·i·er, need·i·est 1. Being in need; impoverished. See Synonyms at poor. 2. Wanting or needing affection, attention, or reassurance, especially to an excessive degree. families rely on the food the Canoga Park-based poverty center provides them every week. Giving up a day with their friends to help fill those shelves seems like a small price to pay, say Andrew Bromley, 13, and his 10-year-old brother, Thomas. The Bromley boys will be among the more than 3 million kids and adults participating Saturday in Make a Difference Day, America's largest day of volunteering. It's not to late to join them. All you have to do is care. The boys and their parents and grandparents grandparents npl → abuelos mpl grandparents grand npl → grands-parents mpl grandparents grand npl having lunch at a Wendy's restaurant in West Hills last Sunday -- a Bromley family tradition. They attend Mass at St. Bernardine's Catholic Church, and have lunch at Wendy's a few blocks away. ``My dad was looking through the USA Weekend USA WEEKEND Magazine is a national publication distributed through more than 600 newspapers in the United States. It reaches 49 million [1] readers in 23 million households [2] every weekend. magazine in the Daily News when he saw the story on Make A Difference Day coming up,'' said Jennifer Bromley, Thomas and Andrew's mom (1) (Messaging-Oriented Middleware) See messaging middleware. (2) (Microsoft Operations Manager) Software that monitors and captures system and application events throughout the network. . ``He noticed that a Wendy's in Warren, Ohio Warren is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio and the county seat of Trumbull CountyGR6. The municipality is located in northeastern Ohio, approximately 14 miles (22 km) northwest of Youngstown and 15 miles (24 km) west of the Pennsylvania state line. , was giving a free Frosty frost·y adj. frost·i·er, frost·i·est 1. Producing or characterized by frost; freezing. See Synonyms at cold. 2. Covered with or as if with frost. 3. Silvery white; hoary. 4. to anyone who brought in canned food canned food food sterilized by heat in a closed, durable container such as tin and aluminum cans, flexible aluminum foil and thermoplastic containers including squeeze tubes. Technically, the processes used are highly efficient and used universally. that day.'' If they could do it in Warren, why couldn't they do it in West Hills, the Bromley brothers wondered. Andrew asked the manager of the local Wendy's for the telephone number of the owner, Ron Ross, and the boy called him up. He explained that he and his brother wanted to help stock the shelves at Guadalupe Center for Make A Difference Day, and they could use his help. The boys knew all about the good work the center was doing for local families in need because their church helped the center out every month with food donated by parishioners. Ross told Andrew to Andrew To (Chinese: 陶君行) is a member of the Wong Tai Sin District Council, Hong Kong. He is also the Secretary of The Frontier. His wife, Jackie Hung, is a leader of Civil Human Rights Front and Justice and Peace Commission of the Hong Kong Catholic Diocese. count him in. Anyone who brings canned goods or nonperishable food to his restaurant on Saturday will get a free Frosty. That still left the Bromley brothers with the problem of how to get the word out. The next day, Andrew called the UPS Store in the same shopping center shopping center, a concentration of retail, service, and entertainment enterprises designed to serve the surrounding region. The modern shopping center differs from its antecedents—bazaars and marketplaces—in that the shops are usually amalgamated into as Wendy's. ``I picked up the phone and this young boy is asking me if I'd print up some fliers to help him and his brother collect food on Make A Difference Day,'' said Leslie Frankel, who owns the store. ``I wasn't familiar with it, but he told me about the Guadalupe Center and what Wendy's and Ron Ross was doing. I told him sure, I'd print up 2,000 fliers for them for free. ``I think it's wonderful what these brothers are doing.'' The Bromley boys now needed a big banner to put out front of Pavilion's on Platt Avenue, which had agreed to let the boys pass out their fliers. Yushea Surti, owner of Advanced Sign and Banner in Canoga Park, heard about these two brothers and offered to make them a banner for free. ``This is my neighborhood,'' she said. ``I work and live here. I think we should all be helping these boys make a difference.'' So, that's what the Bromley brothers were busy doing this week -- passing out 2,000 fliers around their school, church, and community to let people help them make a difference this Saturday. Over at the Guadalupe Center, the staff can't wait to finally meet the boys who called them earlier this week to see if they could use more food. ``This time of year our shelves always begin to get bare,'' says Lydia Nassoura, volunteer coordinator of the food bank at the center, 21600 Hart St. ``People are busy with the holidays coming up. They don't have the time to give to the community. It's always a drought drought, abnormally long period of insufficient rainfall. Drought cannot be defined in terms of inches of rainfall or number of days without rain, since it is determined by such variable factors as the distribution in time and area of precipitation during and before of food and money here until February. ``But the poor, the homeless, can't wait until February. What these boys are doing for us, for the families we serve, is a blessing.'' Yeah, the Bromley brothers won't be playing with their friends this Saturday. They'll be way too busy making a difference. dennis.mccarthy@dailynews.com (818) 713-3749 HOW TO HELP Bring food donations Saturday to the Wendy's Restaurant at 6430 Platt Ave., West Hills. For more information on other local Make a Difference Day activities, see www.makeadifferenceday.com CAPTION(S): photo, box Photo: Thomas and Andrew Bromley will be spending Saturday, Make A Difference Day, collecting food and stocking shelves at the Guadalupe Center, a food pantry for needy families, in Canoga Park. Tom Mendoza/Staff Photographer Box: HOW TO HELP (see text) |
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