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First Church Shelter presents
The Annual Doris Beauvais Luncheon & Mitch Snyder Awards
Sunday, October 27, 12:30 – 2:30 p.m.
Margaret Jewett Hall

The Shelter Oversight Committee invites you to the 2024 Doris Beauvais Luncheon. Join us to recognize Dennis Kaveney’s 36 years of service to the Shelter, as well as to celebrate the five recipients of the Mitch Snyder Awards, given to those who do the good and important work of caring for those in need in our community.

The 2024 Mitch Snyder Award Recipients:

• Carl Alves, Positive Action Against Chemical Addiction (PAACA), New Bedford
• Rev. David Lima, Inter Church Council of Greater New Bedford (ICC)
• Kris Perry Long, Riverside Community Care, Foxboro
• Dianne Kuzia Hills, My Brother’s Table, Lynn
• Lynn Wencus, Team Sharing, Wrentham