New England Patriot Vince Wilfork to Appear at Bernie & Phyl’s Braintree Store on Saturday, February 11 to Promote Mentoring of Children
Braintree, MA, February 7, 2006 – New England Patriot Vince Wilfork will make a special appearance at Bernie & Phyl’s Braintree store at 180 Wood Road on Saturday, February 11, from 1:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. to sign autographs and to talk about opportunities for people to become a child’s mentor. The event is part of a major public service campaign called “Be a Champion for a Child” that Bernie & Phyl’s Furniture launched last fall in conjunction with Vince Wilfork and the Mass Mentoring Partnership.
The “Be a Champion for a Child” program highlights the need for high-quality youth mentoring throughout Massachusetts. The campaign featured a series of television and radio spots starring Wilfork and Bernie Rubin, co-founder of Bernie & Phyl’s Furniture, encouraging more people to get involved with mentoring kids. Currently, there are thousands of children across the state in need of mentors. For every two kids matched with an adult, one remains on a mentoring program’s wait list.
“Mentoring has played a very important role both in my life and in Vince’s life,” said Bernie Rubin. “We hope a lot of people will come out to meet Vince and to talk to us about how he or she can make a difference in a kid’s life by becoming a mentor.”
For the past five years, Bernie & Phyl’s Furniture has sponsored the National Mentoring Month public service campaign for the Mass Mentoring Partnership. Last year, the Partnership presented the company with the first Champions of Mentoring Award for their long-standing support and commitment to mentoring kids.