At Home for the Holidays Part 1

DateDecember 19 1988

Can DescriptionsA Home for the Holidays 12-9-88 part 1

AbstractA Home for the Holidays Part 1; Natalie Jacobson and Peter Mehegan host a Project Shelter telethon special; Andria Hall in Brockton reports on the kinds of things happening at the David Jon Louison Center, the Booth Home, the Gardner Community Action Program and the Daybreak Shelter; callers can donate money or place a bid on items; one resident talks about her eviction from an apartment, life in a shelter, and how she misses her children; Julie Harris makes a cameo appeal; volunteers talk about their time with the program; Eileen Prose in Dorchester reports on the needs there; Peter Mehegan reports on the homeless who sometimes live in low-cost motels; Joe Kennedy makes a cameo appeal; Frank Avruch introduces musicians who perform "A Misty Mountain"; tape ends abruptly at the announcement of the hockey stick winner;