Stirling Properties Collects Donations for Tornado Food Drive
Pictured: (Top Row, L-R) Marty Mayer, Cyndie Quave, Tracy Gandy, Ellen McCain, Tara Slater, Samantha Marshall, Courtney Lehman, Jeanne Taravella, Marsha Smalley, Sharon Amacker, Eugene Schmitt, Chris Abadie; (Bottom Row, L-R) Gena Randall, Monica Milazzo, Marcia McGarrity, Tina Crouchet, Judy McKee, Beezie Landry, Jeff Marshall, Nancy Stallings, Amanda Pfeil, Paul Mastio, Kristy Beach, Laura Wallace, Elizabeth Schmelling, Dina Moran, Karen Bachemin, Gerry Catanese
In an effort to help with the disaster relief in Oklahoma, employees and agents of Stirling Properties collected donations of non-perishable food items for the St. Tammany Fire Protection District #1 in Slidell, Louisiana. Firemen of the district are collecting and organizing donated items and will personally deliver them. On Saturday, June 8, the donations will be transported to Norman, Oklahoma for distribution to residents affected by the recent tornadoes.
There is still time to donate! They are accepting donations at fire stations throughout the Slidell area until Friday, June 7.
Donations Collected for Train of Hope, A Hurricane Sandy Relief Effort
Having experienced our own recovery after Hurricane Katrina, we know all too well how those in the Northeast are feeling in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy. In an effort to help with the disaster relief, we found a local organization, Train of Hope, that StirlingProperties is supporting. In addition to donating badly needed supplies like cleaning supplies, diapers and other baby items, toiletries, and blankets, we also donated Christmas toys to the Train of Hope collection effort. With the help of Amtrak, many generous individuals and volunteers, the train left on Friday, December 14th to deliver these critical supplies and toys to areas of New York and New Jersey devastated by Hurricane Sandy. TWO baggage cars were filled with donations from all 50 states.
Stirling Properties Adopts Christmas Angels
Pictured (L-R): Dick Cyr, Nancy Stallings, Marcia McGarrity, Karen Bachemin, Ellen McCain, Krystal Jones, Jessica Zeringue, Lindsey Palmer, Tracy Gandy, Gena Randall, Laura Wallace, Amanda Zell, Rhonda Creel, Kristy Beach, Carri Creel, Judy McKee, Tara Slater, Angelique Bates, Grady Brame, Ashlee White and Joseph Koon
Stirling Properties has teamed up with Volunteers of America this holiday season to adopt 4 Northshore families. Agents and employees of Stirling Properties have donated food baskets and gifts for these families that are in need this Christmas season, with items being delivered over the next few days. We were able to provide gifts and food for a total of 13 family members, parents and children, whose ages range from 18 months to 40 years old.
Stirling Properties Contributes $20,000 to Providence House
(L to R) Pictured from Providence House are Board Members Grady Morrison and Dr. Susan Seiler-Smith, Executive Director Simone Hennessee and Board President Denee' Locke; from Stirling Properties are President and CEO Marty Mayer, Associate Broker Keitha Avant Marcotte and Bill McFadden, Regional Manager of North Louisiana
SHREVEPORT, LOUISIANA (FEBRUARY 6, 2012) – Stirling Properties presented $20,000 to Providence House, a non-profit organization located on 814 Cotton Street in Shreveport, LA. The donation will help meet the needs of individuals, families and children who are homeless or suffer from abuse.
Providence House has been working in the trenches for more than 20 years, providing a program that teaches families how to live self-sufficient, independent lives. Each family that completes the Providence House program is equipped with everything they need to break the cycle of homelessness. In 2009, Providence House added two new programs–a Domestic Violence Safe House program to provide safe shelter to victims of domestic violence and their children, and a Sexual Assault Hospital Advocacy program to ensure that victims of sexual assault receive the care and information they need in order to make informed decisions as they begin to heal from such a traumatic event. Providence House is the largest transitional and domestic shelter for homeless families and children in Louisiana, and 89% of families who graduate from the program remain successful.
Marty Mayer, President and CEO of Stirling Properties stated, “In a world where there are individuals and families who don’t have a place to call home, it is important to have organizations like Providence House in which to turn. It is their efforts that have helped change the face of homelessness in northwestern Louisiana and we are proud to donate $20,000 to this worthy cause.”
“We are serving 100 families everyday, which is more families than ever before”, said Simone Hennessee, Providence House Executive Director. “Providence House truly is a community project, and we are grateful to Stirling Properties for their support.”
Stirling Properties is committed not only to serving the Shreveport/Bossier area with first class commercial real estate services, but desires to make the community in which we live and work better for the next generation. Each year the Providence House Program transforms 20-25 formerly homeless families into empowered members of the community. It is this success that inspired Stirling Properties to make a donation.
For more information about Providence House email information@theprovidencehouse.com, call (318) 221-7887 Monday through Friday between 8am and 5pm or go their website: www.theprovidencehouse.com. You can also connect with Providence House via social media on Facebook, twitter, or YouTube.
Stirling Golf Tournament Raises Money for Mary Bird Perkins Cancer Center
COVINGTON, Louisiana —- (September 26, 2011) Stirling Properties’ 11th Annual Stirling Invitational Golf Tournament raised $10,000 for Mary Bird Perkins Cancer Center. The scramble-style golf tournament hosted by Stirling Properties was held Monday, September 19th at the University Club, in Baton Rouge where generous contributions from sponsors and close to 100 golfers helped to make the event a success. (more…)
Stirling Properties Participates in Soldiers’ Angels Operation Overseas Mardi Gras
Photo One: Back Row (L-R) Grady Brame, Marcia McGarrity, Donna Taylor, Ellen McCain and Marty Mayer. Front Row (L-R) Tina Crouchet, Gena Randall, Tara Slater, Nancy Stallings and Kristy Beach. Photo Two: Some of the cards created for the soliders by local Elementary and Middle School students
COVINGTON, LOUISIANA (February 7, 2011) –
Stirling Properties collected Mardi Gras items to send to men and women serving in Afghanistan and Iraq. For the second year in a row, the company collected Mardi Gras trinkets, costumes and beads for the Louisiana Chapter of Soldiers’ Angels Operation Overseas Mardi Gras. Soldiers’ Angels is a non-profit, international volunteer organization that provides yearlong aid to all branches of the United States military.
“Several of our employees are military veterans, while others have family members who are currently deployed, so it was important to us to let the troops know we support them,” said Marty Mayer, President and CEO of Stirling Properties.
This year, with participation from area schools, employees from Stirling Properties mailed 25 boxes to send to the troops. Mrs. Daviston’s second grade class at Covington Elementary School and Mrs. Reed’s and Mrs. Bendernagel’s sixth grade classes at Mandeville Middle School provided dozens of hand crafted cards and letters which were included in the packages.
“The letters the children wrote and the cards they made are so special,” said Tina Crouchet, Lease Administrator for Stirling Properties and mother of Spc. Randy L. Caminita Jr. who is currently serving in Afghanistan. “These packages will definitely make our troops smile and, more importantly, allows us to extend our local culture and carnival spirit to those not able to spend Mardi Gras with their family and those yet to experience our carnival traditions.”
Stirling Properties’ hope is to help exceed Soldiers’ Angels goal of 1,500 boxes, which will mean every currently-deployed Louisiana Unit will have a purple, green and gold care package to open in time for Mardi Gras.
