Archive for the ‘Candles For A Cause’ Category
Candles For Kids, Benefiting Children’s Hospitals. You Gotta Love It!!!
Martin’s customers raise more than $500K for children’s hospitals
For the Cumberland Times-News
Cumberland Times-News
CARLISLE, Pa. - Demonstrating a hearty holiday spirit, customers at Giant Food Stores and Martin’s Food Markets contributed $530,689 during an in-store holiday campaign, simply by buying a candle. This will be adding to the $1.8 million already raised by the stores in support of the Children’s Miracle Network.
The grocery chain concluded its annual “Candles for Kids” campaign with a record-setting amount that will benefit hospitalized children throughout the stores’ operating areas.
“The outpouring of support from our customers and associates was nothing short of phenomenal,” said Rick Herring, division president. “On behalf of our associates and regional Children’s Miracle Network hospitals, I want to thank our customers for their generous support of children who are fighting for good health this holiday season.”
“Candles for Kids” is an annual two-week Children’s Miracle Network fundraising program that ran from Nov. 29 to Dec. 13. Customers were encouraged to purchase a paper candle during checkout for $1 each and to write their names on these candles, which were then displayed in the stores. In 2008, the stores’ customers and associates donated $527,640 during the campaign.
Seven Children’s Miracle Network hospitals will receive the donations: Penn State Children’s Hospital at Penn State Hershey Medical Center, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Johns Hopkins Children’s Center, Janet Weis Children’s Hospital at Geisinger Health Systems, University of Virginia Children’s Hospital, University of Pittsburgh Children’s Hospital and Children’s National Medical Center in Washington.
New Jersey Remembers With Candles
City vigil remembers ‘09 victims of violence
By GEORGE MAST • Courier-Post Staff • December 31, 2009
Sister Helen Cole holds a vigil each year for Camden's homicide victims. On Wednesday, Dec. 30,. 2009, she lit a candle for Jamar Cruz, a 9-year-old victim.
CAMDEN
- Shortly after 9 a.m. Wednesday, Sister Helen Cole paused in prayer after lighting a red candle in the front of a Camden church.
Cole prayed for peace and for the family of 9-year-old Jamarr Cruz, who died March 31 after he was brutally beaten inside his Ablett Village home.
“We honor the brief life of Jamarr,” Cole said softly. “We ask that you give us hope and peace in the future. Help us to make choices that will help Camden to be a safer place to live.”
An hour later, Cole lit another candle at St. Joan of Arc Church — this candle for 24-year-old Tyson Maddox, who was gunned down April 24 in an alley off of MacArthur Drive.
In all, Cole will light 34 candles to remember the city’s 33 homicide victims so far this year and a 68-year-old man killed in a police-involved shooting. That death remains under investigation.
Indonesians Light One Million Candles for Peace
One million candles for Gus Dur, tonight
The Jakarta Post , Jakarta | Sat, 01/02/2010 9:44 AM | National
Members of several organizations plan to light 1 million candles in a number of cities across Indonesia on Saturday night, in recognition of the recent death of former president Abdurrahman “Gus Dur” Wahid, tempointeraktif.com reports.
The “1 Million Candles for Gus Dur” event, organized by the Indonesian Conference on Religion and Peace (ICRP), will in cities including Jakarta, Semarang, Yogyakarta and Ambon.
In Jakarta, candles will be lit at the Proclamation Monument, and will include inter-faith prayers, testimonies and speeches.
“With this event, we want to reiterate that Gus Dur is our inter-faith hero,” ICRP executive director Anick Tohari said. “This event is a tribute to Gus Dur.”
Gus Dur passed away at Ciptomangunkusumo hospital in Jakarta on Wednesday evening. He was 69 years of age.
Lighting Candles and Remembering Loved Ones Lost
Annual vigil illuminates lives of homicide victims
By JASON NARK
Philadelphia Daily News
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Sister Helen Cole (center), Father Kenneth Hallahan (right) and neighbor Tyron David bow their heads during a candle light vigil in remembrance of homicides victims in Camden, New Jersey at the St. Joan of Arc Church on Tuesday, December 29, 2009. (Yong Kim / Staff Photographer) Daily News/Inquirer
In churches across the country right now, someone is kneeling before a row of flickering candles, sending up a silent prayer for a lost loved one.
In Camden yesterday, Sister Helen Cole lit a candle to remember 29-year-old Felix Rodriguez, the first of 34 candles she will light this year, one for each of the city’s 33 homicide victims and another for a man who died during a police-involved shootout.
Cole’s yearly vigil routinely leaves her bathed in the red glow of dozens of candles, which she lights individually every hour, but she said that each flame is also a prayer for her beloved city.
Light A Candle on New Years Day and Remember the Many, Many Victims Of Drunk-Driving!
Light a candle for drink-drive victims
Wednesday, December 30, 2009, 07:29
CITY mother and anti-drink drive campaigner Ali Morrish has asked people to join her in a moment of reflection as the new year gets under way.
As the celebrations end and thoughts turn to resolutions for 2010, Ali will be lighting a candle at 6pm on New Year’s Day and taking a moment to remember the lives that have been lost as a result of drink-driving.
Ali’s daughter Anna died in a crash in 2008. The 21-year-old had accepted a lift from a friend who had been drinking.
Since its launch in the Echo nearly three weeks ago, Ali, 45, of Mount Pleasant, Exeter, has been urging people to join Anna’s Campaign. Support from within the community and further afield has been overwhelming.
More than 1,500 have signed up to a Facebook group and businesses, clubs, other families, friends, emergency services, driving instructors and convicted drink-drivers have all put their weight behind the campaign.
Young Indiana Entrepeneur Well On His Way with Candle Business
IU East student starts business
Switch from industrial engineering to business leads to own company
By Brian Zimmerman • Staff Writer • December 30, 2009
With his industrial engineering studies no longer cutting it, Blake Pieratt needed just eight weeks to validate his second choice: business.
That’s how long it took the 20-year-old Eaton, Ohio, man to become fascinated with entrepreneurship, forge a business idea and start earning money.
“I was studying industrial engineering at Sinclair College and I didn’t like it,” Pieratt said. “So I started studying business. It all happened pretty quick. I went from one step to another.”
Pieratt is now the founder of Wicks of Nature. He sells candles stored in emptied baby-food jars that are placed in a small wooden base.
Two Girls in South Carolina, Lighting Candles to Remember Their Loved Ones Seems to be Catching On
Family members light candles in memory of loved ones buried at Langley Cemetery
12/5/2009 11:51 PM
By RACHEL JOHNSON
Staff writer
Stephanie Anderson lights candles every year to honor and remember her family, but this year she had an extra one to light.
Anderson and her friend Gwen Boyd began lighting candles at the Langley Cemetery five years ago when the tradition was first introduced. The pair typically light between 20 and 25 candles each. First they lovingly remember their loved ones by placing a luminary at each of their graves and then together they canvas the cemetery, lighting up other graves.
Another Vigil Springs Forth from the Work of ‘Worldwide Candle Lighting’ & ‘Compassionate Friends’
Candlelight vigil to honor memory of children on Dec. 13
On Dec. 13, hundreds of people will gather at Silver Springs Cemetery in Stow at The Christmas Box Angel of Hope Children’s Memorial to honor the memory of a beloved child or children. Families and friends will participate in a special candle lighting ceremony of remembrance and hope at the holidays.
On Dec. 13 at 5 p.m., a candle lighting ceremony will take place in Stow at Silver Springs Cemetery at 5080 Stow Road.
More ‘Green’ Candles Popping Up in A Petroleum Drenched World
The Oil Industry Helps Launch a Hip & New Green Candle Company
Newly launched Mountain Mama’s Kitchen Co introduces the hip & new “Hand Poured” Soy Candles that Mama pours with lots of love for a healthy, sustainable and fragrant green candle.
Plano, TX December 6, 2009 — Sisters, Natalie Galyon and Paige McGee had a “green moment” and recently launched the boutique candle company, Mountain Mamas Kitchen Co., featuring hand poured Soy Candles. “We were unfulfilled and working in the oil industry when we realized we want make a positive impact on the world around us.”
Soy Candles Lighting The Way To A ‘Perfect World’.
Gift Guide: Thoughtful gift for humanitarians
By ALLISON BAGLEY
Dec. 6, 2009
Your sister-in-law rivals Angelina Jolie in her humanitarian efforts.
She uses her vacation time to donate shoes to orphans in Guam, spends weekends learning Cantonese for her next international volunteer mission and says she doesn’t need anything this year but life’s necessities. Relieve the guilt (for both of you) by choosing a present from Altru, a company that contributes to the nonprofit In a Perfect World.
Invocative of faraway lands and exotic locales, Altru’s soy candles are named for attributes one would find in a “perfect world” - i.e., harmony, integrity and wellness. The rich designs and hammered copper votive make for an impressive presentation.
Your selfless relative can enjoy soothing candlelit fragrances from the Persian lilac candle and white freesia candle, knowing her much-deserved relaxation helps to empower the globe’s children even when she can’t.
$48, Neiman Marcus, 2600 Post Oak Blvd., 713-621-7100; www.neimanmarcus.com
Allison Bagley is the editor of www.HoustonTidbits.com.