Our Friendly’s fundraiser was held at the Manchester, NH restaurant on Thursday, May 23, 2019.
Thank you to everyone who supported us by attending this event. It was great seeing you there!
Author: dbelisle
A yoga benefit was held on Sunday, April 14, 2019 at Downdog Flow Yoga & Pilates.
Thank you to everyone who participated and supported us at the benefit. We are so thankful and grateful to Melissa Martin, owner of Downdog Flow Yoga & Pilates, for making this event possible. We appreciate the generosity of all our supporters!
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Also, thank you to Heidi Matthews-Cantin, owner of Celebrations by Heidi, for her beautiful contribution to our yoga fundraiser. Heidi contributed 30 orange roses with purple bows for each yoga participant. We are so thankful to Heidi for her kindness, support, and honoring Wesley.
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Our Dining for a Cause fundraiser was held at the Ninety-Nine Restaurant on Thursday, April 11, 2019.
Thank you to everyone who came out and supported us at this event. It was great so see so many familiar faces and also meet new people. Thanks to those came and ate, those who came for a drink, those that just popped in to say hello, those that ordered take-out, and those that wanted to come but were not able to. We appreciate all of our supporters and thank you for honoring Wesley!
Wesley’s Way Foundation is proud to adopt a bench in honor of Wesley at Dowdy Park in Nags Head, NC.
Dowdy Park offers 5 acres of recreation for every age and every ability. It has an ampitheater, a fitness trail, and an inclusive playground.
During our visit to North Carolina in April 2018, Wesley really enjoyed playing at this playground.
We hope that by supporting Dowdy Park, children of all ages can enjoy this recreational area for many years to come.
In honor of Wesley, Wesley’s Way Foundation has donated 75 toys and 42 books to the Salvation Army through a program we are calling Wesley’s Wheels.
Wesley loved playing with cars, trucks, and any other toys that had wheels. He had many books that were about cars and trucks, and many of those even had wheels too!
Our foundation chose to donate these toys so that children in need can also enjoy some of the same toys that brought Wesley so much joy.
The community of the Outer Banks has shown so much love for our family and even more love for Wesley. The community has supported and embraced our family and they have fallen in love with Wesley, even though they never met him.
The season of Thanksgiving is about being grateful and thankful. Wesley’s Way Foundation wanted to do just that for Dare County and give our support to the Beach Food Pantry with helping to provide meals to those in the community.
From the Beach Food Pantry:
Special thanks to Wesley’s Way Foundation for sponsoring 18 Thanksgiving bags for this weekend’s distribution to clients. This gift was in memory of Wesley Belisle. His family is thankful for all the people in Dare County that were there for them in their time of need. So, they wanted to be there for others in our area in our clients’ time of need. And, we wore orange for Wesley on Wednesday!
The town of Chester, New Hampshire has been very generous and supportive with the beginning of this foundation. The holiday season is approaching, and Wesley’s Way Foundation has assisted the Chester Food Pantry with helping to provide meals to those in the community.
To encourage literacy and education, Wesley’s Way Foundation has just helped to provide educational items to seven Manchester NH classrooms!
- At Green Acres Elementary School, we have donated funds to give 21 students a listening center in order to improve their comprehension skills and exposure to new vocabulary.
- At Green Acres Elementary School, we helped to give 25 students Lego building blocks to allow them to express themselves creatively, as well as help them learn how to build from their imaginations.
- At Henry Wilson Elementary School, we helped give 25 students kinetic sand to play with to help develop imagination, fine motor skills, and sensory processing in a calming way.
- At Smyth Road Elementary School, we have donated funds to give 26 kindergarten students floor puzzles to encourage many areas of their educational growth.
- At Hallsville Elementary School, we helped to give 23 students sorting games, number line floor mats, magnetic ten frames and other amazing hands-on manipulatives to support math lessons.
- We provided funds to give 25 students Handwriting Without Tears workbooks and small pencils to help support their handwriting mastery and practice.
- At the Beech Street School library, over 300 students will benefit from the Keeper of the School Book Series, and additional titles by Andrew Clements, to encourage reading and literacy.
Books, blocks, puzzles, writing, coloring, math – these are all things Wesley enjoyed, so we wanted to give other children in our community the opportunity to learn through these activities as well!
Teacher’s Comments
THANK YOU SO VERY MUCH for your generosity and support of this project!! My first graders are going to be SO EXCITED tomorrow when I share the news that we have a NEW listening center! The students LOVE listening to stories on tape/CDs and now they will be able to truly focus on the stories. It will help promote the students’ love of reading!!
With gratitude,
Mrs. Welch
Thank you so much for providing my class with these Legos. I cannot wait until I can tell them about it tomorrow! They adore playing with Lego each morning and now we will have even more to go around! Thank you so much for your generosity and support of my students!
With gratitude,
Ms. Beakey
Thank you so much for funding this project for my students. This kinetic sand will be used the children every day offered as a sensory bin in the morning and at free choice for play as well as a “calm down” technique for those who need it. I appreciate your generosity more than words can say!
With gratitude,
Mrs. DePietro
Thank you very, very much for funding our classroom project! Our current puzzles are hanging on by a thread and we love making puzzles together!
I know how thankful these kiddos will be to receive their package and I can’t wait to see their faces and tell them all about YOU and how wonderful you have been to us!
Again, thank you so much for supporting a fabulous group of kiddies!
With gratitude,
Mrs. Webber
I am beyond grateful for your generosity. Your donation in honor of Wesley will support many children and our school community. My students are going to be overjoyed to hear that our project was funded by an amazing foundation! I am thankful beyond words for your generous donation to my classroom. My students and I are so very appreciative of your support and love for education. Your donation will effect numerous students and support many lessons. Thank you again for your generosity. We can’t wait to use the materials in our classroom!
With gratitude,
Mrs. Wood
Thank you so much for your generous donation! My students will greatly benefit from these materials which help them become more proficient writers. Becoming a more proficient writer will also allow them to become more proficient readers, which will help instill a life-long love of reading and writing. Thank you again on behalf of my students!
Michelle
We are especially grateful that our project was funded in honor of a little boy that loved books. As a mom and teacher it makes my heart full to know that these books could be the ones that spark a love of reading for one of my students! We will have a special author display with these Andrew Clement books and do book talks for each one creating a lot of excitement before voting on which one they’d like to read together.
These books will be read and loved for years to come. Thank you on behalf of all our kids.
With gratitude,
Mrs. L.
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