April 25, 2004:
COOPERS for CAREGIVERS - a great success!
Today went very well, with reasonable weather and excellent company.
A total of 15 MINIs met at Beverly Hospital this morning, for a 9:30am breakfast and some speeches:
A good breakfast was provided by the hospital, including bagels as well as bacon/sausage/egg/etc. Thanks!
Deborah introduced the special guests (those not driving MINIs!) and a special gift basket was presented to State Representative Mary Grant who is also a caregiver.
Next the MINIs headed out to deliver a total of 9 gift baskets to a selected caregiver in Beverly, Wenham, Hamilton, Manchester, Magnolia (Gloucester), Rockport, Essex, Ipswich and Topsfield. Special thanks to the Topsfield police for making our crossing of route 1 extremely easy!
We also took a group shot of everyone at Stage Fort Park in Gloucester:
(click for a full size 2048×1536 version)
A big thank you to all the participants 
Selected pictures from the gallery follow … see the gallery for every picture
Joe (2004/04/26 @ 8:13 am)
Thanx Ian,great job setting this up.Great people,great roads.Debbie and I had a wonderful time.
Deborah Schwendiman (2004/04/27 @ 9:00 am)
Just wanted to reiterate my thanks to all the drivers and their companions, with a special thanks to Jason for his car, his company, and his snacks. Zoom, Zoom has a total different meaning for me now!!
It was great and you made it work. Bless you all.
Rocketboy (2004/04/29 @ 2:52 am)
Great job… But what’s with all the headlights?
Ian C. (2004/04/29 @ 7:35 pm)
Headlights are what happens when you lead the parade and stand at the front taking pics
See Gavins pics for some taillight shots!