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Bless Our Children

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Every year Draper Media works to make the holiday season brighter for Delmarva's less fortunate children with the Bless Our Children campaign.

For more than a decade, Draper Media has teamed up with local businesses and members of the community to raise money to buy Christmas presents for needy children in our area. The money raised for Bless Our Children is distributed to charitable groups across the peninsula. These charities then buy gifts for children they know are in need, making sure they have a present to open for Christmas. For the 2023 holiday season, the Bless Our Children campaign raised $338,147.

We appreciate all of the donors that stepped up to the Schell Brothers Challenge. We asked businesses, groups, and organizations to help Bless Our Children by accepting the Schell Brothers Bless Our Children Challenge of donating $1,000. As our thank you, we listed businesses, groups and organizations on the Schell Brothers Honor Roll in order of amount given in increments of $1,000. Below is the 2023 Schell Brothers Honor Roll:

Friends and Family of Captain Bob's Oyster Roast

Atlantic Community Thrift Shop

Officers & Members of Ocean City Elks Lodge #2645

Clark & Sons Garage Doors

James Maloney 

Boggs-Disharoon Post 123

Evans Builders

Eastern Shore Corvette Club

General Refrigeration Company

Caliber Collision - Local Centers

Carolyn D. Lehman Johnson

Wright Locations

SeaBoard Billboard Boat

Wicomico County Public Schools

Right Way Flagging and Sign 

M. R. Ducks Family

Delmar VFW Post 8276

Tony Tank Tribe 149

Pocomoke Elks 1624

In Memory of Stacy Dorsch

Salisbury Elks Lodge

Schagrin Gas & Home Comfort Products

Unfinished Business

Cape Henlopen Elks #2540

Bunting & Murray Construction

Midway Par 3

Parkway Church of God

Lewes-Rehoboth Rotary Club

June and John Lewis

Peninsula Imaging

A.S.A.P. Services Pumping & Disposal

Johnny Janosik

Bob Willey & Sons

Classic Cakes

Ocean City-Berlin Optimist Foundation

Tuckahoe Underground

Ocean City-Berlin Optimist Club

ABC Refrigeration

Edward Jones Office of Melinda Tingle

J. Stacey Hart & Associates

Goldsborough Family Foundation

Wheels That Heal Car Club

Freddie Holland

Allen Chorman & Sons

Ramco Solutions

In Memory of Shirley Dougherty 

David & Louise

FH Furr Plumbing, HVAC, Electrical

Delaware Mobile Surf Fisherman

Pepsi Bottling Ventures

Collins Wharf Sod

Pools, Pavers, & More

Terra Firma of Delmarva

Eastern Shore Auctions by Willie Benton

Apgar Turf Farm

Jefferson Urian Doane & Sterner, PA

King Crop Insurance

Historical Vintage Car Club of DE

Murrays Residential Services

Arcon Training Center

Towers Concrete Products

Mid Atlantic Transport

Officers & Members of American Legion Nanticoke Squadron #6

In Memory of Maurice and Pearl Jordan

G & S Heating & Air

Dagsboro Paint & Wallpaper

MGSafer Services

State Orphans Board Great Council of Delaware

Mt. Zion Holiness Church

Burris Logistics

O'Neals Millwright & Services

Iron Order Motorcycle Club - Delaware

Garden Bears Landscaping

In Honor of "Billo Hickman"

Shore Fun Tractor Pullers 

Moose Lodge 646

Women of Faith Zion Church Salisbury

In Loving Memory of John Angelis

Wicomico Lodge #91

Holly Lake Campsite

Carey Insurance Group

Ashley Fence

St. Marks UMC-Easton

Lynda's Tax & Bookkeeping Services

Delmarva Art Expo & Wool and Fiber Expo

Thomas E Melvin & Son Funeral Home

Johnson's Seed and Feed

Mike Singleton & Sons Pest Control

Powellville UMC 

Queen City Elk Lodge #1051

Punkin Chunkin Association

Contractors For A Cause Foundation

Hugh H. Hickman and Sons

Quota International of Salisbury

Idlewild Ruritan Club

Shore United Bank

Allen Lions Club

Paradise Plumbing

Collins Mechanical-In Memory of Sam Ellers III

Coastal Maintenance

Richard Y Johnson & Son General Contractor

CJ'S Beach Bays

The Carroll Family

Murray Sod Farm

Daisey's Well Drilling

Members of the Willards Lions Club

The R.D. Grier & Sons

Bennetts Lawn Service

Accurate Termite & Pest Control

Coastal Towing

Odd Fellows Lodge #3

Slaughter Septic Services

American Legion Post #64

Delmarva Two-Way Radio

Filmore Day Real Estate Services

Hickman Beach Plaza

In Memory of Jack Spencer

Bethel Community Church

Preston R Smith Plumbing & Heating

Red Knights MD3 Motorcycle Club

Shawn Nowell in loving memory

Joan W. Jenkins Foundation

B & R Auto Parts

Jolly Roger Amusement Parks

Brothers of Dorchester Elks Lodge #223

A.E. Moore Janitorial

American Legion Synepuxent Post #166

Gary & Cheryl Layfield & Boys

Missionary Baptist Church

Wicomico Day School

Salisbury Moose Lodge

Mike & Nancy West

Gloria Nock

Selbyville Elks Lodge 2173

Eastern Shore Region Antique Car Club

Corrado Construction

K & T Utilities

American Veterans Thrift Store

In Memory of Richard & Helen Webb

Rich & Karen Gaulin

Olde Tymers Softball League

Residents of Mariner's Cove

In Memory of Lily Patrick Feinstein

The Human Fund

Binsted Construction

Curtis Mercer Remodeling

Physicians at Bayhealth Kent & Sussex Campuses

East Sussex Moose Lodge 2542

Road Wolves Motorcycle Club

Don & Stephaine McEntaffer

Sons of the American Legion #123

Frankford Presbyterian Church Thrift Shop

Shaka Shack Restaurant

Delaware Good Sam Camping Club

Bridgeville Lions Foundation

Donna Dorman Adams

Dr & Mrs Chris Conyers

In Memory of Samuel S. Henry Jr. - Greater Berlin Minority

Preston GrowmarkFS

American Legion Post #94

Southern Delaware Golf Club

Harborside Bar and Grill

In Memory of Gary Parks

Maddox Bros. Trucking

Coast, LLC - In Memory of Ken Prettyman

Accutrench Contracting

Employee's of Hebron Savings Bank

Earl Johnson Painting

Laurel American Legion Post 19

In Loving Memory of John B Pitman

Ancient Order of Hibernians, Emerald Isle Division 1

American Legion Auxiliary Synepuxent Unit #166

Memory of Granville and Joanne Trimper

Whitehall Neck Sportsman Club

Scott's Cove Marina

Safari Services

Premier Glass & Screen

Southern Delaware Street Rod Association

American Legion Post #237

Scott & Natasha Smith

Jerry's, Inc.

Delaware Electric Cooperative

Taylor & Messick

Mt. Enon Baptist Church 

The Collier Family

In honor of Antoinette and Carol Wanger

The Bless Our Children campaign is administered by Draper Holdings Charitable Foundation, Inc., a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization. Donations are tax-deductible to the extent allowed by law.

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