CONTACTS:         Martha Stone-Martin / 617-759-8124

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

MEDIA ALERT

EVENT: THE FRESH AIR FUND NORTHWEST OF BOSTON COMMITTEE WELCOMES NEW YORK CITY CHILDREN

38 New York City children arrive at St. Anne's Catholic Church to spend summer vacations with volunteer host families in Concord, Littleton, Groton, Winchester, Westford, Tyngsboro, Sudbury, Harvard, Melrose, Ashby, Chelmsford, Marlborough, Bedford, and Merrimac

DATE:                                    July 10, 2012

ARRIVAL TIME:                  4:00 PM

PLACE:                                  St. Anne's Catholic Church

                                                75 King Street

                                                Littleton, MA 01460

INTERVIEWS:                     Martha Stone-Martin, Fresh Air Fund volunteer
                                                Local host families
                                                Fresh Air children

The Northwest of Boston Committee will be welcoming 38 New York City children as they arrive in Littleton on July 10, 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=75+King+Street,+Littleton,+MA+01460

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