January 31, 2010 in Featured Stories by admin

Visit Your Local Friendly’s Restaurant to Support Easter Seals!

Easter Seals

Beginning January 11th, the Friendly Ice Cream Corporation will support Easter Seals Camp Friendly’s through its annual Cones for Kids Campaign! From January 11- February 13, 2010, Friendly’s Restaurants will offer Valentine Cards as a thank you gift to restaurant guests who made a donation to Easter Seals. The Valentine Cards were redeemable at Friendly’s for 5 free Kids Cones and $5 off any $25 purchase.

Donations collected from the campaign support Easter Seals Camp Friendly’s Programs in all Friendly’s markets. Every time you and your family visit Friendly’s during the campaign, you can help support essential disability camp programs in your community.

Easter Seals Campers enjoy time at camp with friends
From Camp Counsel to CEO for Easter Seals UCP Virginia & North Carolina,  Connie Cochran can relay the impact of being a counselor 38 years ago.  His experience with campers led him into a life of working with individuals with disabilities in these two states.  Friendly’s support not only opens the door to children and adults with disabilities to experience camp but to open doors for the thousands of young people who experience for the first time how to improve the lives of people living with the challenges of disabilities.

The Friendly Ice Cream Corporation has supported Easter Seals since 1981 with nearly $26 million through Cones for Kids. With the help of generous consumers, 26 Easter Seals affiliate organizations have benefited from this powerful campaign created by Friendly’s Restaurants up and down the East Coast.

FRIENDS WHO CARE®
Friendly’s has funded the redesign and update of Easter Seals’ award winning disability awareness curriculum FRIENDS WHO CARE®. FRIENDS WHO CARE®. is designed to help children better understand what it means and how it feels to be a young person with a disability. Easter Seals thanks Friendly’s for their tremendous support in making this possible.