Friendly House Galaxy of the Stars Banquet

Beth Sannella, Chair of the Galaxy of the Stars Committee and Gordon Hargrove, Executive Director of Friendly House are pleased to announce the honorees for this year’s Galaxy of the Stars Award Banquet, to be held on Thursday, December 8th at the Manor Restaurant in West Boylston. The banquet is Friendly House’s signature event to raise funds for its youth programs and to honor local community leaders who exemplify Friendly House’s mission and reflect the generosity of Galaxy founder, Nick Manzello and Worcester sports legend, Kevin Lyons. Founded in 1920 “for the educational, social and family betterment of residents of the City of Worcester,” today it is the largest neighborhood-based multi-service community center in the area. Friendly House helps low-income children and families achieve self sufficiency by providing a full spectrum of services to meet critical basic needs with food, shelter and transitional housing, and with its after-school, summer and sports programs for children and youth. Friendly House’s signature expertise is as the “agency of last resort” for children and families when their needs cannot be met by other agencies.

Friendly House thanks its sponsors for this year’s Galaxy of the Stars, to date, are:

BEST FRIEND - Bay State Savings Bank, EBS Foran Insurance, Labex of Massachusetts and Starr Scrap Metal

BETTER FRIEND – Metso USA, Inc and UMass Memorial Health Care

GOOD FRIEND – Accurate Collision, Inc., Commerce Bank, Fallon Community Health Care, Leominster Credit Union, Millbury Savings Bank, Quinsigamond Community College, Reliant Medical Group and Southbridge Savings. There are still sponsorship opportunities available; contact galaxy@friendlyhousema.org for more information. A very limited number of tickets for the banquet are available for $40.00 each by calling Susan at Friendly House (508-755-4362).