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Xtra Mart and its employees play an active role in our communities by contributing and supporting local organizations. |
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Warren Alpert, founder and chairman of Warren Equities, Inc., and the Warren Alpert Foundation passed away peacefully Saturday, March 3, 2007.
Born 1920 in Chelsea, MA, Alpert was the youngest of five children of Lithuanian immigrants. He earned a Bachelor of Science degree at Boston University, served in the military during World War II and was awarded the Purple Heart in 1945 for his actions on Omaha Beach. With the help from the G.I. Bill he went on to receive an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School.
Warren Alpert was the founder, chairman and sole owner of Warren Equities Inc., a company he started in 1950 in Providence RI. Warren Equities, Inc. is now one of the nation's top privately owned companies. The company is a leader in the marketing of petroleum and food items. The company now employs over 1,000 people in eight states along the east coast.
The Warren Equities, Inc. companies are: Drake Petroleum Company, Inc. - a major wholesaler and the owner and manager of Xtra Mart Convenience Stores that operate from Maine through Virginia. Warex Terminals Corporation - a retail and wholesale distributor of petroleum products in NY State.
A philanthropist, Alpert's work and dedication as founder and sole benefactor of the Warren Alpert Foundation have led to the annual Alpert Prize, which awards the world's leading medical researchers for their breakthroughs. Additionally, Mr. Alpert was a founding donor of Harvard Medical School's "New Pathway" program, donated $20 million to Harvard in 1993 to found the new research center at the Medical School, and $1 million to Harvard's Tosteson Medical Education Center. He also gave $15 million to New York's Mount Sinai Hospital to name the Warren Alpert Pavilion dedicated for pediatrics and radiology. Warren made his final medical legacy when his Foundation donated $100 million to Brown University. In his honor the University named its' Medical School the "Warren Alpert School of Medicine". These are just a few of his many incredible acts of good will designed to advance the state of medical research and treatment.
Warren Alpert will be missed by many, but his legacy will live on.
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219th AREA SUPPORT GROUP
KANDAHAR AIRFIELD GARRISON COMMAND
Helps our Troops reach home!
Lisa Soucy, Manager of the Jewett City Xtra Mart and supportive wife of SPC Paul E. Soucy Jr. asked Xtra Mart management if they would help supply a wireless laptop computer for her husband and fellow soldiers in Afghanistan. Ms. Soucy wanted a way to make the separation between soldiers and families more bearable. Xtra Mart immediately responded and the laptop has since made every moment count, with conversations and photos for many soldiers and their families.
In recognition, Xtra Mart received a certificate and was presented a United States Flag, which was flown on the Taliban Last Stand building, now the headquarters for the U.S. Garrison Command in Kandahar. The flag was flown in remembrance of the Americans who died in the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001.
Xtra Mart Convenience Stores employs many affected by the war and salutes all the soldiers and their families for their courage during this time of separation and hope for a safe return for all.
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This is to certify this flag flew over Kandahar Airfield, Afghanistan in support of International Security Assistance Force Operations and Operation Enduring Freedom on November 8th, 2006 and is presented to ...
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It was flown on a flagpole erected on the Taliban Last Stand (TLS) building that is pictured above. On 26 November 2001, the United States Air Force dropped a JDAM bomb on the TLS building effectively ending the last organized resistance of the Taliban. The building is now used as a Headquarters for U.S. Garrison Command in Kandahar. The flag presented to the honorable party was flown in rememberance of the Americans who died in the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001. Let us never forget, never waiver, for our cause is just, the cause of freedom.
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Corporate Charity:
 Visit the Jennifer Creed Fund site here! The Jennifer Creed Fund was started to assist Jennifer’s family with the ever-mounting ”side” expenses of her Leukemia. Meals and parking at the hospital, as well as other non-medical expenses were devastating to the family’s finances. Friends of the family held fundraisers to assist the family with these non-medical expenses. It was acknowledged that when Jennifer was older, this funding could be used to assist in her education, since the tumor had caused her to be blind. Despite everyone’s best efforts Leukemia took Jennifer’s life 33 years ago. This was the inception of the Jennifer Creed Fund. The money remaining in the Fund was used to assist other families with the same circumstances as Ed and Mabel Creed’s family. During this fund’s beginning days, most of their resources went to help families at the Children’s Floating Hospital. This was accomplished by donating meal vouchers and parking passes to those in need. Dinner dances and other fund raisers were the Fund’s only income, with the exception of occasional donations from previous recipients.
Xtra Mart was introduced to the Jennifer Creed Fund over twenty years ago. The union was a perfect match. Xtra Mart raises money to help the Jennifer Creed Fund through store promotions and a summer golf tournament. The Creed/ Xtra Mart partnership has enabled the Jennifer Creed Fund to utilize Xtra Mart’s marketing capability and beyond. This fund has no restriction on demographics. Recipient families must have a child with cancer or a birth defect. The fund has helped families with housing costs, rents, mortgage, computers to help with schoolwork, a summer camp to give the family a break, and many other things that help a family overcome the devastation of the dreaded diagnosis.
Today the Jennifer Creed Fund continues to help families with all the things that the original founders wished. Xtra Mart helps as a primary benefactor. As the holiday season approaches, lists of families are received from The Tomorrow Fund and New England Medical Center. A holiday financial boost is sent out to aid family finances. This past year, 150 families received a check for $ 250.00.
Volunteers meet monthly to see that the fund continues its programs to benefit the families of children that have cancer or birth defects. This means there is no payroll. The only expenses are for things like coin cans and other supplies.
Jennifer’s mother Mabel and her brother Michael still serve on the Board of Directors of the Jennifer Creed Fund. |
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