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…Safe Harbor,
the child advocacy center, continues to look for a home in the four-county
judicial district it will serve. Director Donna Koester says a house on Chapman Highway
may become the center's home for the next few years while money is raised to
build a permanent office on property
the city of Sevierville
has made available ...
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THE MOUNTAIN PRESS
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Original Publication Date
August 21, 2006
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Three Cheers for 8/19/06
Day of Caring proves successful again
It's called Day of Caring, an appropriate name for an event that puts volunteers
together with agencies that have a real need for help. The Sevier County United Way holds a Day of
Caring each summer to help usher in its annual fund-raising effort. This year
dozens of volunteers fanned out over several agencies that are United Way
members to paint, clean up brush, fix what's broken and do some
beautification where needed.
The member agencies of United Way provide a valuable service to this community.
Thousands…
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THE MOUNTAIN PRESS
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Original Publication Date
August 20, 2006
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Efforts to bring a safe harbor for abused and neglected children to Sevier County got a boost Monday
United Way Executive Director Roy Marshall
presented a $25,000 check to Donna Koester, executive director of Safe Harbor
Child Advocacy
Center.
The Fourth Judicial District, which
includes Sevier, Jefferson, Cocke and Grainger counties, is one of only four
in the state without a child advocacy center. Work to change that began about
a year ago and led to the formation of SafeHarbor.
Koester hopes to find a temporary
home for the program by the end of
September. Safe
Harbor…
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THE MOUNTAIN PRESS
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Original Publication Date
July 27, 2006
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The Safe Harbor
Child Advocacy
Center held its first
ever major fundraising event, “Raisin’ the Roof”, on June 9th
at the Music Road Hotel & Convention Center. And, the crowd turned
out in mass. The banquet facility was seated at almost capacity with a
crowd ranging from longtime Safe
Harbor supporters to
those that have only recently learned of the organization’s work
serving child-victims of severe abuse in Jefferson
and the other three counties of the Fourth Judicial District.
Coach Pat Summitt, head coach of the Tennessee Lady
Volunteer’s basketball team, served as guest speaker of the
evening’s event and…
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STANDARD BANNER
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Original Publication Date
July 4, 2006
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Thursday, December 10, 2009 16:21
Safe Harbor recruits volunteers at recent event
Written by KeeYoung Hartley
Staff and
volunteers with the Safe
Harbor Child
Advocacy Center
are continuing to recruit volunteers in Tennessee’s Fourth Judicial
District, including Cocke, Grainger, Jefferson and Sevier counties.
Recently, employees and volunteers of Safe Harbor
staffed an information booth at the 2006 Rhythm in the Hills event in Pigeon
Forge over the Memorial Day weekend.
Persons
staffing the booth talked to attendees of the three day event and handed out
flyers to passersby to inform them about the non-profit
organization’s mission and services. Information disseminated to
event spectators outlined statistics of abuse in the district as a whole, as
well as…
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STANDARD BANNER
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Original Publication Date
June 22, 2006
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$55,000 raised to aid abused and neglected children
The non-profit children’s advocate agency, SafeHarbor had a successful “Raise the Roof”
party last week, bringing in over $55,000 in donations through the benefit
dinner and auction, according to SafeHarbor
Executive Director Donna Koester.
“I thought
that if we could come out of this with $35,000 raised, it would have been a
successful event,” said Koester. “Pat Summitt
upped the ante with two auction items, offering two guest coach packages,”
which brought in $7,400 a piece, according to Koester.
The guest coach
packages allow the winning bidder to…
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THE SMOKY MOUNTAIN HERALD
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Original Publication Date
June 15, 2006
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