Baby bottles 'boomerang' to raise $4,300 for pro-life cause

Published: 2003-10-20

BRISTOL, Conn. (CNS) -- Members of St. Ann Parish in Bristol raised more than $4,300 with a local version of Baby Bottle Boomerang, a national program to raise money for pregnancy resource centers. Special baby bottles were distributed at Masses and recipients were asked to return them within a month with donations inside. The bottles can be used again and again, hence the "boomerang" name. The Bristol parish's effort benefited Carolyn's Place, a pregnancy resource center in Waterbury that provides love, care and support to women facing unexpected pregnancies and to their babies. In an interview with The Catholic Transcript, newspaper of the Hartford Archdiocese, Corinne Clark, co-chairwoman of the pro-life committee at St. Ann, Clark said she and her co-chairwoman on the pro-life committee, Maryann Brayne, ordered 600 special baby bottles. The committee inserted information on Carolyn's Place into each bottle. "We didn't know what we'd be taking in," Clark said about the expected donations. But the bottles came back filled with cash, change and checks. When the committee totaled the donations, "We were really very happy and surprised," she added. "We thought the parish was very generous."

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