CONTACTS:         Andrea Debaggis / 508-409-1972

Jake Grinsted / The Fresh Air Fund / 800-367-0003 ext. 8890

                                      MEDIA ALERT

EVENT:                                 THE FRESH AIR FUND SOUTHERN MASSACHUSETTS COMMITTEE WELCOMES

                                    NEW YORK CITY CHILDREN

25 New York City children arrive in Foxboro to spend summer vacations with volunteer host families in Wrentham, Rehoboth, Holbrook, Foxboro, E Falmouth, Swansea, North Attleboro, Norton, South Easton, Sharon, Dighton, Seekonk, and Lincoln

DATE:                                    July 12, 2012

ARRIVAL TIME:                  4:00 PM

PLACE:                                  Ocean State Job Lot Plaza

                                                30 Commercial Street

                                                Foxboro, MA 02035

INTERVIEWS:                     Andrea Debaggis, Fresh Air Fund volunteer
                                                Local host families
                                                Fresh Air children

The Southern Massachusetts Committee will be welcoming 25 New York City children as they arrive in Foxboro on July 12, 2012. Volunteer host families share their summers for up to two weeks with Fresh Air children, ages six to 18, who leave behind the city streets to run barefoot in the grass or see the stars at night. Some youngsters are leaving home for the first time, while others are returning to visit the same host families for consecutive summers.

The Fresh Air Fund is an independent, not-for-profit agency that has provided free summer vacations to more than 1.7 million New York City children from low-income communities since 1877. Each summer, over 4,000 children visit volunteer host families in rural, suburban and small town communities across 13 states from Virginia to Maine and Canada.

Click here to view directions on Google map:

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=30+Commercial+Street,+Foxboro,+MA+02035

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