Angels Among Us: 2008

• Photo/Art by Matt Kalinowski

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  Service to others is a family tradition for Friends of Mel founder Pauline Alighieri, and her mother, Helen Ouellette, who banded together last year to raise money for cancer treatment and research.

  

These four New Englanders are making a difference, one life at a time. Pauline Alighieri remembers a friend in Massachusetts with a foundation that funds cancer research, Friends of Mel, friendsofmel.org. Brenden Gobell is a teen angel who volunteers with his family at a homeless shelter in Connecticut, South Park Inn, southparkinn.org. Deborah Descenza brings developmentally disabled adults together to work on a farm in New Hampshire, Farmsteads of New England, farmsteads-ne.org. And Linda Gilbert rallies her Vermont friends to send aid to Honduras, Vermont Hands to Honduras-Tela, handstohonduras.org.

Read about past Angels of 2007 and 2006.

Here are the newly selected Angels for 2008: