Residents invited to share some fresh air with a city child
Fresh air program recruits volunteers

Area residents are invited to volunteer for The Fresh Air Fund and host an inner-city child this summer. Underprivileged New York City children who participate in the fund's Friendly Town Program can experience simple summer pleasures like skipping rocks across a lake, smelling newly cut grass, and making new suburban and country friends.

"At home we don't have much grass to walk on. Here there's so much open land and grass and water. I like being here. Everything we do is fun!" explained 12-year old Fresh Air child Rebecca. Since 1877, The Fresh Air Fund has provided thousands of city children with the opportunity to enjoy these simple pleasures.

Fresh Air hosts are young families, single professionals, empty nesters and grandparents, all of whom want to share their communities with an inner-city child. For information, call Karen Woodward at 889-9173 or The Fresh Air Fund at 1-800-367-0003. To learn more about the Friendly Town Program visit the fund's web site at www.freshair.org.