Health Care Shares raffle of framed drawing by Dr Mark Heitzman

The Health Care Share program is a partnership between Central Vermont Medical Center and the Vermont Youth Conservation Corps as a hunger relief strategy. CVMC identifies patient and employee families unable to afford or access fresh, nutritious food. The partnership provides 12 pounds of fresh produce and poultry each week for 12 weeks to these food insecure families, accompanied by recipes for how to use the food.
New this year is the Learning Kitchen, a series of classes held in the CVMC kitchen and taught by VYCC staff, to learn how to cook using fresh produce. There is a nutrition discussion for the first 40 minutes, followed by a hands-on cooking lesson and then participants enjoy eating the food they have prepared. Class participants range in age from 15 years old to late sixties. The Vermont Food Bank provides the staples for each week’s recipe. These are included in everyone’s share along with the recipe of the week.
This year approximately 150 CVMC patient and employee families are receiving Health Care Shares. Last year the program supported 100 families totaling 22,304 pounds of food.
The program is funded by donations from CVMC employees. Additional money is being raised through a raffle. Win an original framed graphite drawing by CVMC Cardiologist Mark Heitzman. Dr. Heitzman is interested in found objects. He locates them in the corners of sheds, deserted industrial sites and junk shops. The more obscure their original purpose, the better. He considers these objects to be ready made art. Dr. Heitzman has exhibited drawings at various galleries throughout the Northeast including galleries in Boston and New York City. He also exhibited in the first annual juried art show, ‘Wide Open’ held by the Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition in the Redhook section of Brooklyn.
Raffle tickets are $1.00 each or $5.00 for six tickets. All of the money raised by the raffle goes toward the Health Care Share Program. Tickets available at CVMC front desk weekdays from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. The raffle winds up on December 1, 2013. Tax deductible donations can also be made directly to the Vermont Youth Conservation Corps, Health Care Share, 1949 E Main St., Richmond, VT 05477.
This original framed graphite drawing of a found object by CVMC Cardiologist Mark Heitzman is being raffled off to raise money for the Health Care Shares program. Tickets are $1.00 each or $5.00 for six tickets. Tickets available at CVMC front desk weekdays from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Raffle ends December 1, 2013.