Gateway Subaru of Delmar donates $30K

Money given to Believe in Tomorrow last three years through Hometown Charity

(June 9, 2023) For the past three years, Gateway Subaru of Delmar has selected the Believe In Tomorrow Children’s Foundation as its Hometown Charity during the annual Subaru Share The Love Charity Campaign.

According to a news release, Gateway Subaru raised $30,000 this past year, and the contribution was recently presented to Believe In Tomorrow by Pat Wergin, vice president of Gateway Subaru and Annapolis Cars, and Don Scullen, Gateway Subaru’s sales manager.

The total contributions from Gateway Subaru over the past three years exceeds $90,000.

The Believe In Tomorrow Children’s Foundation is dedicating the funds to the expansion of its Children’s House By The Sea in Ocean City.

When completed in early 2024, the new pediatric respite property will serve children with short life expectancies, and those needing additional medical assistance during their stay.

Adjacent to Believe In Tomorrow’s flagship respite facility on 66th Street, the expansion will include substantial outdoor space for family recreation and relaxation.

“Working with Believe In Tomorrow as our Hometown Charity for the Subaru Share The Love Event for the past three years has been a mutually beneficial experience,” Wergin said. “The support they lend to families and pediatric patients provides a muchneeded pause from the stress induced by the medical and financial challenges they are facing.”

Believe In Tomorrow is credited with establishing the first pediatric respite program in the United States for children with life-threatening illnesses with the creation of the Ocean City-based beach respite program in 1986.

Today, the Believe In Tomorrow Children’s House By The Sea is the largest pediatric respite facility of its kind, and has served as a worldwide model for pediatric respite housing services.

“The entire Gateway Subaru and Annapolis Cars team have been just extraordinary partners to Believe In Tomorrow and the families that we serve,” said Brian Morrison, Believe In Tomorrow’s founder. “Their philanthropic efforts and support are making a major and very positive difference in the lives of the children and families that we serve.”

The combined contribution of Annapolis Subaru and Gateway Subaru over the past three years exceeds

$145,000.

“This is simply an amazing level of support and dedication to serve our mission, and we are incredibly proud of our partnership with the wonderful team at Annapolis Cars and Gateway Subaru,” said Maryanne Davis, the CEO of Believe In Tomorrow.

The Believe In Tomorrow Children’s Foundation is comprised of eight pediatric hospital and respite properties throughout the Mid-Atlantic area.

Believe In Tomorrow provides hospital and respite housing services to critically ill children and their families, believing that keeping families together during a child’s medical crisis, and the gentle cadence of everyday family life, has a powerful influence on the healing process.

Believe In Tomorrow is also a primary provider of hospital housing to the world-renowned Johns Hopkins Children’s Center.

For the past three years, Gateway Subaru of Delmar has selected the Believe In Tomorrow Children’s Foundation as its Hometown Charity during the annual Subaru Share The Love Charity Campaign. This past year, Gateway Subaru raised $30,000. Pictured, from left, are Don Scullen, sales manager of Gateway Subaru; Joseph Cascio, Shawn Edler, Brian Kang, Kevin Miller, and Brian Morrison, Believe In Tomorrow’s founder.

As the pioneer of pediatric respite housing, Believe In Tomorrow offers families week-long stays free of charge in the mid-Atlantic’s beautiful beach and mountain settings.

Believe In Tomorrow’s military initiative gives priority to families who are members of the U.S. Armed Forces whose children are receiving treatment for a critical illness.

To learn more about Believe In Tomorrow’s programs and services, go to believeintomorrow.org.

Letters To The Editor

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The heart of our open free enterprise system is merit based on the freedom to choose. DEI at every step attacks this elemental principle and is consistent with both critical theory and wokeness. Both wokeness and critical theory use determinism, and do not believe in freedom of choice or that an individual should accept the consequences of their choices, both good and bad.

Adding DEI further extinguishes hope as well as opportunity by reducing merit-based decisions in school, government and work.

The county commissioners have every reason to be disturbed with Lou Taylor and they should demand from him very specific accountability on how he is implementing DEI? In hiring? Grading? Down to the books in the library.

God can only imagine what the mayor in Ocean City intends to do with the town’s new DEI Officer? We can only hope that it doesn’t result in the same consequence that both Bud Light and Target stores are experiencing!

Tony Christ Ocean City