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We are grateful to everyone who helped make this event a success. Dancers, would-be-dancers, or those who liked to watch others dance and just liked to have fun came to the "Bailatón," East Boston's first-ever
all-Latin-dances dance-a-thon fundraiser on March 17th.
This St. Patrick's Day event helped us to raise funds to support 'green' initiatives locally. There were Latin dance lessons for all those who wished to learn them, including
Salsa, Merengue, Cumbia and BachataIt. The Bailatón
was held at the Salesian Boys & Girls Club,
150 Byron Street, East Boston, from 6 to 11 PM.
The event featured five hours of great music, a performance by Samba Viva (whose exhibition dancers are featured in the photo, above), lots of fun prizes and competitions, and a chance to win a dance with some rocking community leader 'stars' (ACE's Kalila Barnett, the Chelsea Collaborative's Gladys Vega, Carlos Quintero from WUNR Radio, Las Parceritas Diana y Angélica
Cardona, just to name a few).
Here are some of the great prizes that were given away:
• 4 tickets to the New England Revolution plus dinner in Foxboro
• 2 tickets to the Improv Assylum plus dinner in the North End
• A one-year Hubway membership
• A gift certificate for one pair of dance shoes from Burju Shoes (worn by cast of "Dancing with the Stars")
• Passes to salsa classes with Ana Masacote and Salsa Niche
If you would still like to donate, please visit our special website at www.noahbailaton.org or call 617-418-8241!
Come to the 9th Annual Chelsea Creek River Revel, and bring all your friends and family! It will be held from 10:00 AM - 3:00 PM, on the Meridian Street Bridge, between Chelsea and East Boston. It is sponsored by the Chelsea Creek Action Group & NeighborWorks America; this is our yearly Neighborworks Week event. There will be food, festivities and fun for the whole family, including live music and
5K Road & Bike Races! Call Manlio at 617-418-8242 or visit www.chelseariverrevel.com for more information.
NOAH maintains a database of landlord listings. This is a free service for landlords and for prospective tenants. NOAH receives hundreds of requests for assistance with rental housing placement each year. We are currently seeking new landlord contacts in East Boston, Revere and Chelsea. If you are interested in finding out more about our no-cost service, contact Jahaira Sanchez at 617-567-5882 or jsanchez@noahcdc.org.
Our thanks to those who joined us for NOAH's 24th Annual Dinner featuring a keynote address by Robert DeLeo, Speaker of the
Massachusetts House of Representatives. A resident of Winthrop, Speaker DeLeo attended Boston area schools, graduating from the Boston Latin School, and attaining a Bachelor of Arts degree from Northeastern University and a Juris Doctor from Suffolk University Law School. We were honored to have him as our special guest.
There was a raffle that evening with a grand prize of $500 towards U.S. Airways tickets to anywhere in the U.S. Airways system; as well as signed sports gear, museum passes, gift certificates, and more. Our thanks to volunteer Ann Stroobant for all her hard work gathering the items for this raffle.
NOAH was honored to host Mass. Attorney General Ms. Martha Coakley on Friday, December 2nd. The Attorney General and her staff met with NOAH foreclosure prevention and mitigation counselors and others involved in working with distressed families facing potential foreclosures of their homes. Immediately following, Ms. Coakley held a press conference at NOAH to answer questions about her new law suit against five banks and MERS, holding them accountable for aspects of the ongoing foreclosure-related housing crisis in the state. Below: Attorney General Coakley with NOAH counseling staff.
