Purim is a family enterprise in the Breslin Household. For the last 3 years Nancy Breslin has been the organizer behind the Purim Carnival and for the last 2 years Charlie has taken on the daunting task of organizing the Shalach Manot JLC fundraiser.
The carnival is a mammoth undertaking. There is a myriad of logistics to stress over — organizing games, arranging rentals of bouncy houses and photo trucks, ordering hundreds of prizes, schlepping 40 boxes of pizza and a car full of other goodies from Costco, just to name a few. Also there’s enlisting the help of and organizing scores of other volunteers.
And Nancy juggled all the balls without dropping any!
Charlie, ever the salesman, never stops selling Shalach Manot! Even when on business in Germany he and I kept in constant touch about sales progress via texts. It’s not easy to make 300 bags of goodies and get them organized and delivered while also selling…selling…selling! Charlie out did himself this year raising $2,226 more this year than last year for a total of $16,038!
And let’s here it for the Breslin Kids! Alan, Kate and Lila were helping every step of the way. From setting up the carnival at 8 in the morning to cleaning up afterward. Alan even volunteered to be this year’s “Haman” and get plastered in the punim by wet sponges!
Yasher Koach to the Whole Breslin Family!!
Nancy sends along these thanks:
Thank you to everyone who helped make the carnival fun this year! Sarah Kravits for popping the corn; Aylah Winter, Adrienne Lasiter, Jake, Amalie and Noah for selling tickets; John Lasiter and David Turetsky on Pizza Duty; Liza Cohn and William Wallach at the snack bar; Elana, Margalit, Zoe and another Elana on cotton candy; Kids: Amalia, Mike, Pacey, Sarah, Jake, Hailey, Collin, Elliot and Ted (Elliot’s friend) for running the games; Sam Lasiter for manning the bouncy house; Fran Legman for face-painting; Kate tending the duck pond; Lila and Elana for styling the glitter tatoos, Alan for standing-in as Haman; Elana and Delia for telling fortunes; Morah Rachel Poggie for crafting crafts; Heather Brown and Aylah Winter for all around support; Jaclyn Stein and Stephanie Greenberg for setting up; Ben Youngerman for the photo truck; Margot Laksin for helping out; Shana Rubin for organizing the Montclair Fire Dept. visit; and headliners Jason and Amy Didner for adding the music that always makes the event!
Charlie sends along these thanks:
Adrienne Lasiter for shopping for most of the goodies, Aylah Winter, Heather Brown and the JLC kids for packing the bags, John Lasiter for the database work, Marge Wise and Marita Falconer for stuffing envelopes, all those who helped deliver and especially the generous donors of our community!
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Yasher Koach to those amazing Breslins. It was the most successful Purim we’ve had thanks to the whole family!
Yasher Koach to all. Thank you for a wonderful Purim
Every detail was fantastic. Thank you for your hard work and making our Purim so special. Jerilyn Margulies