Local Group Gives Big to Brick's Chronically Ill

Local Hannah Banana Foundation gives to Ocean Medical Center patients. Volunteers are impressed.

Hannah Banana Foundation visited the Ocean Medical Center Wednesday,  bearing therapeutic gifts for chronicallly ill, hospitalized patients to be distributed as needed throughout the coming months. Volunteers from Brick and the surrounding communities set up an assembly line to package the donated gifts, which included word puzzles, notepads, pens, coloring books, markers, playing cards and response postcards.  Toms River dentist and Middletown resident, Gary Prisand D.M.D., P.A., and two volunteers from the Hannah Banana Foundation came to Ocean Medical to help set up and delegate.  Twice a year, visits like these are made to 18 hospitals in the New York and New Jersey area to fill 10,000 banana yellow bags. Each bag is given to …

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