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COOPERS for CAREGIVERS – a great success!

Posted on April 25, 2004February 12, 2017 by Ian C.

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 each of 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!

GBMINI#2 ready for Coopers For Caregivers

Coopers For Caregivers

Coopers For Caregivers Newspaper article

A big thank you to all the participants 🙂

UPDATE: There’s also a video from Keith Polischuk:

COOPERS For CAREGIVERS tomorrow!

Posted on April 24, 2004February 12, 2017 by Ian C.

As mentioned earlier this week, I am leading a parade drive around the north shore tomorrow to promote the activities of caregivers … the 18 MINIs will be delivering a gift basket to a selected caregiver in each of 9 towns covered by Deborah, the “caregiver support specialist” that came up with the idea.
The gift baskets have been packed today by Margaret, my wife, and our neighbour Pat – they look very good and just squeeze into the MINI:

We have some local media coverage, attendance by Massachusetts dignitaries, and of course the MINIs to help draw attention to the event – we also have reasonable, dry but cool weather.

More Chrome for GBMINI

Posted on April 19, 2004February 9, 2017 by Ian C.

Todays visit to MINI Peabody resulted in the purchase of a chrome tailgate (as fitted to MINI Cooper) to replace the body coloured one (standard on MINI Cooper S). Got a few tips on installation (remove six screws from panel on tailgate interior and remove panel, remove four torx screws, disconnect plug … “refitting is reverse of removal” … Thank you Gary for the installation tips, and Scott for supplying the part …

I also recently bought (from eBay) a chrome antenna mount which fits over the original MINI mount … subtle but fun!