Mercy Center's 4th Annual
Cocktail and Auction Celebration
Tuesday, April 15, 2008

Dear Friends,

Thank you to all who joined us Tuesday night for our Fourth Annual Mercy Center Auction and Gala. We hope you agree that it was a wonderful night, and a great celebration of Mercy Center, our honoree, Lynda Baquero, and the first Circle of Mercy Award recipients, the Families of Demarest, New Jersey! We want to extend our sincere appreciation to all those who supported us in so many ways – by attending, by donating prizes, by taking ads in our journal, by securing or committing corporate sponsorships, by making donations in honor of the event, by buying raffle tickets, and of course by bidding on auction items. The event was a great thanks to all who participated so enthusiastically!

We also want to thank all the attendees Tuesday night who participated in the Fund-a-Need portion of the evening and succeeded in funding our Summer Camp activities for Mercy Center children. Thanks to you, Mercy Center children will be able to escape their cramped South Bronx apartments during the heat of the summer, and to and explore nature and a range of other opportunities. We thank you from the bottom of our hearts for allowing them this opportunity.

We also owe a huge debt of gratitude, of course, to our Auction Committee and its Chair, Diane Vezza. Once again, Diane and her team pulled off an exceptional event!

Thanks for all of your support. The Circle of Mercy continues to grow and inspire us here in Mott Haven. We hope it uplifted you on Tuesday night!