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Blare's Bears For Haiti

Hank Graff Davison, the nation's premier leader in new Chevrolet and used cars sales, would like to announce their participation as a drop-off point for "Blare's Bears For Haiti". Please read Blare's story below to find out how you can be a part of this very worthy charitable cause. 

BLARES BEARS FOR HAITI

 

Kym Reinstadler from Mlive.com wrote this story explaining what Blare is trying to do.

 

 

A newscast showing Haitian kids roaming over rubble looking searching for their parents in the aftermath of Monday's earthquake left Blare Gooch wishing he could give those kids a hug.

The St. Thomas the Apostle School seventh-grader resolved to do the next best thing: organize a teddy bear drive to give kids in Haiti something to hug.

 

"I put it on my Facebook page and a teacher let me announce it on the PA at school," said Blare, a 12-year-old who is 25 percent Haitian and dreams of competing on Haiti's national soccer team. "Several kids came up to me afterward to say they wanted to donate teddy bears, so I think it's going to be successful."

 

Blare started the drive Thursday by donating the big white teddy bear his father, Johrone Gooch, gave him on his first Valentine's Day. He's also contributing Brown Bear, his bedtime companion that made at Build-A-Bear Workshop when he was three. She and Johrone also purchased a new green bear to donate.

 

Teddy Bears, and monetary donations to ship them, can be dropped off before March 15 at St. Thomas the Apostle School, 1429 Wilcox Park Drive SE, and at Lisa Gooch's business, Hair Force, 1557 Michigan Ave. NE.

 

Gooch is arranging to ship and donate the bears through a Catholic relief organization, but not until the crush of basic needs for food, shelter and medicine subsides.

Blare's goal is to collect 2,000 bears that will have to serve as tokens of comfort and love.

After the bears ship, Lisa Gooch said she will take Blare back to Build-A-Bear Workshop to create a bear to commemorate his compassion.

 

"I know that one day, a long time from now, I will see that bear in his office," she said.

 

 

Blares Bears For Haiti needs help for the following:

 

  • New or slightly used bears / stuffed animals      

  • Donate money to help with Shipping costs to:   

 

Rays of Hope For Haiti (a 501c3-#38-3616468)

 946 Burton St. SE. Grand Rapids, MI. 49507

when you write your check in the memo area put (Blares Bears For Haiti) 

 Drop-offs can be made at :
 
 Hank Graff Davison
800 N. State St.
 Davison, Michigan, 48423