Feeney Talks With Friends

Tate is a co-owner of Iron & Grain and GastroPark. 637 New Park Ave, West Hartford, CT 06110 (860) 840-2179 https://www.ctbites.com/blog/2020/8/30/gastropark-opening-in https://we-ha.com/art-will-be-popping-up-at-west-hartfords-gastropark/ Recyclable Can and Bottle Drive in January. Recyclable Can & Bottle and Food Drive in February. Recyclable Can & Bottle, Food and Coat Drive in March. Shout outs: Drink Mechanics Chet from West Hartford Redemption Center 695 Oakwood Ave, West Hartford, CT 06110

Most importantly, Matt is the father of three amazing girls! When he not with his family, Matt is the Head of Marketing at Maximum Beverage and the host of "Brown Baggin' It". Maximum Beverage has three locations. The West Hartford location is in Bishops Corner on 340 N Main St, West Hartford, CT 06117. (860) 761-2541. Matt donated his time and box truck for our Can Drives at GastroPark. Here are pictures from our March 20th Can Drive. Here are pictures from our February 20th Can Drive. Whitney Family photo. Shout outs: West Hartford Redemption Center:

It was great talking with Len from An Infinite Abundance about Reiki. (860) 593-5257 Len has been doing Reiki for eight years! We discuss the importance of Celery Juice at minute 20. Real Men Wear Pink Event Shout outs: Donut Crazy Directline Media Fresh Ink WeHa Roasing and Brewing

It was a great time talking with Will from WeHa Brewing and Cody from WeHa Roasting. We look forward to their business opening soon on Shield St in West Hartford. Read all about it in the We-Ha.com Business Buzz article by Ronni Newton. Please participate in our ongoing fundraiser and purchase the Life on The Mountain Magazine Blend! A percentage goes to Friends of Feeney. Shoutouts: A big thanks goes to Jill Lewis from Life on the Mountain for choosing Friends of Feeney as the beneficiary of the LOTM Blend fundraiser. Dave from Directline Media is the President of the Design District of West Hartford Steamroller Brewery

Brooke Daly is the Vice-President of the Down Syndrome Association of Connecticut. She runs "Fighters for Finn" for the Step Up for Down Syndrome Walk in New Britain, CT. Be on the look out for her #FinnFriday tweets CBS News - On The Road featuring Finn Daly Finn Daly at the SWAT Challenge Shoutouts: Alison's Mastery Experience Project - Ceramics for Friends of Feeney:

Friends Of Feeney is very excited to partner with Nala's Kitchen on our current fundraiser! Please order by Sunday, April 11th and use promo code: Feeney2021, and 20% of all purchases will go directly to help support our mission. We welcome everyone in Connecticut to participate, as we deliver all throughout the state. If you have any questions, please call us at (860)578-2314. We are thrilled about this collaboration and #fundraiser! #BeAGoodFoodie #BeAGoodFriend. https://nalas-kitchen.com/ [email protected] (860) 578-2314 Shout Outs: School of Rock West Hartford Spade Schumacher Hey Ya! - Outkast

Steven is in Sales & Business Development for OtherDesigns. He is there, "For ALL of your PRINTING needs....." 400 Chapel Road, #3B | South Windsor, CT 06074 cell | 860-531-8895 work | 860-515-8423 x 101 email | [email protected] site | www.OtherDesigns.com Feeney gets his business cards Celebrity Server Steven at The Donut Crazy Fundraiser Hartford Step Off Classic Shout out: Rad Beard promo code: FRIENDSOFFEENEY High Meadow Day Camp HMDC Facebook Page

Javil “Jah”John is a Certified Back Consultant at Relax the Back. 982 Farmington Ave West Hartford, CT. 860-236-3773 Jah is also an involved member of the local community. He is active member in the West Hartford Chamber of Commerce and Minority Business Network. Jah is a supporter of Friends of Feeney: Toy Drive with Doug Donut Crazy event Shoutouts: Life On The Mountain Magazine WeHa Brewing and Roasting - Life On The Mountain blend supporting Friends of Feeney Fresh Ink LLC Be A Good Friend Rock N Roll with D. Locke

Marty is a retired teacher. He taught for 44 years. Currently, Marty is the President of The Exchange Club. Marty traveled the world in "38 days" and he has some beautiful artwork to prove it. He also collects pop-up books! The Exchange Club graciously made a donation of $500 to Friends of Feeney Inc. after I presented about our mission and goals: Marty has volunteered at many Friends of Feeney events: The Battle of the Badges Basketball game hosted by The United Way at The University of Hartford The Trick or Trick Event at The Miracle Field The Global Cardboard Challenge with The Elmwood Makers at The Elmwood Community Center A bus trip for children and families of the Hillcrest Neighborhood to Hartford Wolfpack hockey game Please donate your cans/bottles and nonperishable food items at our next event at GastroPark on Saturday, February 20th 1-4: Please donate to our current fundraiser for The Hamel Family: Read the West Hartford News article about our community raising money for a family who had a housefire. We received over 400 donations. Help support Friends of Feeney by making a purchase from: Life on the Mountain Blend coffee from WeHa Roasting Company: The Friends of Feeney collection at Sockstarz: The Friends of Feeney apparel catalog at Fresh Ink: Shout out: System X www.systemx.com (860)-358-0119

Irene Luaices owns Donut Crazy located on 993 Farmington Ave, West Hartford, CT. 860-206-3918 [email protected] donutcrazy.com/locations/west-hartford/ Irene is a mom of three girls! She cares about the West Hartford community and that was on full display when Donut Crazy was host to Friends of Feeney's most successful fundraiser to date. Check out the Hartford Courant article about the fundraiser Check out some photos from the fundraiser Recyclable Can Drive Event on Saturday, January 23rd 1-6 PM Shoutouts: Savage Pallet Projects https://www.facebook.com/Savage_Pallet_Projects "First. Last. Best. Worst" Game https://postcardacademy.co/blog/storytelling-tips Feeney Talks With Matt Dicks - Episode #1

Dr. Rick Araya is a chiropractor at Araya Chiropractic Wellness Center which is located at 39 Talcott Road in West Hartford, CT. His phone number is 860-561-LIFE (5433) which is very fitting and pretty cool because Rick loves life! He is very passionate about his practice! Our conversation was both engaging and inspirational. http://www.healthyhartford.com/dr_rick_araya/ https://www.facebook.com/arayachiro/ https://www.instagram.com/dr.rick.life/ https://www.leagueathletics.com/Page.asp?n=30217&org=whgsl.org https://www.facebook.com/Photo of Rick at Fundraiser for Friends Of Feeney Friends of Feeney Returnable Can Drive on Saturday, January 23rd at Gastropark. https://fb.me/e/1Y0yjI8XC https://www.thegastropark.com/ Shout outs: Episode #8 with Steve Famiglietti https://ndmc.pyd.org/hall-of-fame/class-of-2018/steve-famiglietti/ Fresh Ink LLC https://www.facebook.com/Fresh-Ink-LLC https://www.instagram.com/fresh_ink_weha/

Steve is the Manager of Blind Vocational Services at New England Assistive Technology Center (N.E.A.T Center). Follow Steve on Twitter: It was great to sit down with Steve to talk about his professional accomplishments, his personal interests and his guide dog named Joel. We talked about the 8.5 year working relationship between Steve and Joel. Joel is from Guiding Eyes for the Blind. Steve is a collector of clocks. He has 21 cuckoo clocks, 2 grandfather clocks and 2 mantel clocks. For the past 12 years when Steve has the time, he enjoys chasing storms with Silver Lining Tours. https://www.fox61.com/article/news/ct-man-chases-tornadoes-and-hes-legally-blind/520-cbda17cb-1035-4271-8551-2542551eef82 Steve is truly an inspiration! We had a wonderful conversation! I am glad that Steve is my #friend. Shout outs: https://thefrenchcleaner.com/ https://www.daswaniclothiers.com/

Seth is a Senior Writer for ESPN. Seth has volunteered his time as a "celebrity server" at our Rita's Italian Ice fundraising event! It was great to sit down and chat about Friends of Feeney, our community and sports! Follow Seth on Twitter: Sponsors for the #FriendsOfFeeney 2020 Virtual Global Cardboard Challenge: West Hartford Chamber of Commerce whchamber.com, Directline Media directlinemediaproductions.com, Sorel Brothers LLC - 860-539-5030, Boards and Beyond boardsbeyond.com, Pasi LLC - 860-284-6880, High Meadow Day Camp highmeadowdaycamp.com, Chuck Minahan, Gateway Financial Partners - 860-652-4360 ext. 226, Uberdog myuberdog.com, Just Taxes LLC -860-214-5431, Resilience Fitness LLC resiliencefitnessllc.com, Cricket Press Inc cricketpress.biz, West Hartford Lock Company 860-236-0671, Sunday Vinyl facebook.com/SundayVinyl, Jeff Brand - Ion Insurance Producer - 860-913-9569, We-Ha.com we-ha.com, Fuchs Financial - 860-461-1709, Speak Up speakupstorytelling.com, CM Landscaping 860-983-9953, SJC Electric LLC facebook.com/SJCelectric, French Cleaners thefrenchcleaners.com, We Care Computers wecarecomputers.com, Donut Crazy - 860-206-3918, Savage Pallet Projects @SavagePalletProjects - Instagram, Jason Coscia - Liberty Mutual Insurance - 617-331-9554, Daswani Clothiers 860-233-4435, Hot Basil hotbasilwesthartford.com, The Film Critic's Ticket moviecritic.today, Life on the Mountain Magazine [email protected], Mandall JCC of Great Hartford mandelljcc.org, Fresh Ink LLC freshinkllc.com, System X Ceramic Protection system.com Special Thanks to Wendy from The Elmwood Makers [email protected] Mentions: Business Pants Podcast

Matt owns Bards Clothing. Matt has volunteered his time as a "celebrity server" at our Donut Crazy fundraising event! Follow Bards Clothing on Instagram: Use promo code "Be A Good Friend" at Donut Crazy and receive 10% off your order.

It was wonderful to talk with Nancy. She is one of the main reasons #FriendsOfFeeney started and now serves as secretary of our organization. #143 https://sockstarzusa.com https://donutcrazy.com/locations/west-hartford https://www.whps.org https://www.highmeadowdaycamp.com/Home

Wendy runs Elmwood Maker Space. In addition to being a college professor and mother of three boys! Wendy and Feeney became #friends after her son was in his third grade class. Elmwood Maker Space and Friends of Feeney collaborated on an amazing community event which followed the Park Road Parade called The Global Cardboard Challenge on 10/6/19 at the Elmwood Community Center. Listen to all of the benefits of Maker Space and the importance of letting children build, create, problem solve, invent and make mistakes! https://www.facebook.com/pg/FriendsOfFeeney/photos/?tab=album&album_id=527075641197837 https://www.westhartfordct.gov/town-departments/senior-centers/elmwood-senior-center To learn more about Maker Space watch Caine's Arcade.

Rob is a father, cross-fitter, lawyer, basketball player and rock-star. Rob volunteered his time and performed acoustically at the Global Cardboard Challenge hosted by Friends of Feeney & Elmwood Maker Space. Listen how Rob and Feeney went from frenemies to #friends. Check out Rob performing at the Hartbeat Music Festival 2020 at the 45:00 minute mark of this video: Global Cardboard Challenge photo: https://www.facebook.com/SundayVinyl https://www.facebook.com/jeremyhaddadmusic http://www.mandelljcc.org

Chicken and Feeney have known each other for 22 years. They met at L.E.A.P. Leadership, Education & Athletics in Partnership in New Haven. Before becoming a teacher, Feeney was a Senior Counselor at L.E.A.P. Chicken was in his group of 10-12 year old boys. Listen how Chicken and Feeney maintained a positive relationship through a lot of successes and challenges. The Rosie the Riveter painting was framed by: https://www.janowcustomframing.com Thank you Dave from DirectLine Media LLC for the podcast opportunity.

Matt is a teacher, storyteller, columnist, playwright, blogger, author and dad. Matt and Feeney teach together in West Hartford at the best elementary school in the area! Matt is the artistic director of SpeakUp. https://www.facebook.com/speakupstory Feeney was a guest on Matt's SpeakUp podcast. Feeney has told multiple stories at SpeakUp: 1. SpeakUp - Mrs. Jarrell 2. SpeakUp - Power 3. SpeakUp - Thin Concrete Wall Matt blogs daily: https://matthewdicks.com/blog Purchase his nonfiction book, Storyworthy: Engage, Teach, Persuade, and Change Your Life through the Power of Storytelling. Watch his TED Talk called "Homework for Life"