Alzheimer’s Association to honor Scott Carpenter at the 2013 Reason to Hope Dinner April 30

Vermont’ s civic and business leaders will join the Alzheimer’ s Association in honoring Scott D Carpenter at the 2013 Reason to Hope Dinner on Tuesday, April 30th. The fourth annual event will be chaired by Dan Feeney, President of North Star Leasing and Co-owner of Armistead Caregiver Services and Lesli Blount, Director of Corporate Support for VPR. David Coates will serve as the event’ s Honorary Chair.
The Alzheimer’ s Association is pleased to recognize Carpenter, a native Vermonter and former president of the KeyBank Vermont District, with the 2013 Community Leadership & Activist Award for his exemplary work and leadership in the community.
‘ Scott's leadership in building business and non-profit partnerships has allowed our community to thrive,’ said event co-chair Dan Feeney. ‘ Over his 22-year career at KeyBank, he instilled a commitment to community service by encouraging and celebrating employee volunteerism with dozens of worthy organizations in our region.’
In recognition of Carpenter’ s community leadership, Armistead Caregiver Services has signed on as a Platinum Sponsor. Joining them as early bird table sponsors are the Arbors at Shelburne, BlueCross BlueShield of Vermont, KeyBank, the Coates Family, Green Mountain Power, Home Instead Senior Care, the Seaver Family, Bayada Hospice, the Center on Aging, Good Health and Fitness Options, Sopher Investments, Twincraft, Symquest and the Burlington Free Press.
The Reason to Hope Dinner supports the Alzheimer’ s Association, Vermont Chapter’ s efforts to provide support, care, and resources to the more than 11,000 individuals and their families from across the state currently living with Alzheimer’ s disease. Alzheimer’ s disease has been called the Baby Boomer Epidemic, and is now the 6th leading cause of death in the US. It is the only leading cause of death without a known cause, cure or prevention.
For information on table sponsorship and dinner tickets please call 802-316-3839 or email [email protected]. To purchase dinner tickets, or to donate online, please visit our website at alz.org/vermont.
About the Alzheimer's Association:
The Alzheimer’ s Association is the world’ s leading voluntary health organization in Alzheimer care, support and research. Our mission is to eliminate Alzheimer’ s disease through the advancement of research; to provide and enhance care and support for all affected; and to reduce the risk of dementia through the promotion of brain health.