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Annual Picnics

Annual Picnic 2011

AFTH held its 23rd annual picnic at the Fort Washington State Park, in Pennsylvania on Sunday June 5, 2011. We were fortunate enough that the rain held-off and the temperature was perfect! An estimated 1000 adoptive parents, grandparents, birth parents and children from all over gathered to celebrate adoption.

There were many new families in attendance this year, with babies everywhere! It is always great to see new families who are just starting the adoption process, families who just received placements as well as families who have been coming for years (one family celebrated their 19th year with the agency!).

Five lucky families won raffles this year including our three children’s raffle baskets! An adoptive couple with their newly placed twins won a much needed week-long vacation! And their birthmother won the 50/50 cash prize! (Talk about lucky!)
We would like to thank all of our families who came out to celebrate adoption with us for making this event wonderful. We hope to see you again next year!

Thank you to the Raucous Brothers who provided us another year of infectious reggae music, 5 local teens for stellar face painting, Jack & Jill for supplying all the children with ice cream, Scholastic Inc. for providing arts and crafts, Wegmans and Whole Foods Market for their generous donations and to the AFTH staff and friends who helped make our event possible!

A heartfelt thank you to each of the following for their kind donations:

• Whole Foods Market
• Wegmans
• Comcast
• Wawa
• Giant
• Genaurdi’s
• BJs
• Pepperidge Farm
• Herr’s
• Hershey’s
• Rita Roitman
• Yellow Pages/ Michael Offord