Everyone wants to meet Ready! [4] |
Ready and Roland Cockfield [5] |
Jessica Stewart's son gives Ready a BIG hug! [6] |
Ready, Set, RECRUIT! Meriden takes their goal of 757 Friends of Connecticut's Young Children very seriously and so does Ready Rabbit. He visited Meriden for the first time on August 23 as part of their "Back to School" event and helped Meriden recruit more than 100 new Friends in only 2 hours. Not a bad morning!
Among Meriden's ever growing list of Friends are their mayor, school superintendent, elementary school principal, state representative, city council respresentative, chamber of commerce leader, NAACP president and rotary president.
"We got to 43 friends with almost no effort," David Radcliffe, facilitator at Meriden Children First, modestly recounted in July. Since that time, Meriden has raised their number of Friends to more than 250.
Their "efforts" include:
Find out more about [7] Ready Rabbit's travels:
[1]: http://www.readysetgrowctkids.org/community_1019.html
[2]: http://www.readysetgrowctkids.org/community_demographics_1019.html
[3]: http://www.readysetgrowctkids.org/community_chatter_1019.html
[4]: http://www.readysetgrowctkids.org/javascript:rs(
[5]: http://www.readysetgrowctkids.org/javascript:rs(
[6]: http://www.readysetgrowctkids.org/javascript:rs(
[7]: http://www.readysetgrowctkids.org/where.html
[8]: http://www.readysetgrowctkids.org/where_been.html
[9]: http://www.readysetgrowctkids.org/where_going.html
[10]: http://www.readysetgrowctkids.org/where_invite.html
[11]: http://www.readysetgrowctkids.org/where_press.html
[12]: http://www.readysetgrowctkids.org/where_photos.html