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O'Brien's One Great Cause
Paula L Porten
09/01/06
Hollywood comedian
Conan O’Brien showed up in Lawrence last week to
lend his support for the opening of the Cor~Unum Meal
Center at 191 Salem Street in Lawrence on September 25th.
Cor Unum (“One Heart” in Latin) is organized
under St. Patrick’s Parish with Father Paul O’Brien
as the chairperson of Cor Unum and “Labels Are For
Jars” (LAFJ). Conan O’Brien was a roommate of
Father O’Brien of St. Patrick’s Parish when
they attended Harvard University. Two have been friends
ever since.
The entire construction cost was privately funded through
donations and through the LAFJ project. Conan O’Brien
is also a member of the LAFJ which recently raised
more than $500,000 for the operation of the center and
will continue to raise money for its’ operation.
LAFJ sells t-shirts aimed at preventing societal labels
such as “addict,” “Geek” and “minority”.
The meal center is now open and serving meals to the
hungry families of Lawrence. The center is 5,600 square
foot facility, with construction of the $1.5+million
facility beginning last winter. Cor Unum formed a major
partnership with the Greater Boston Food Bank, through
which the majority of its food supplies will come.
Dinners are served Saturday, Sunday and Monday nights and
will expand to days. The facility is large enough to feed
80 people at one seating and with multiple serving times,
the facility can accommodate up to 250 people for each
meal. Since its launch in the winter of 2004, LAFJ has
raised a total of more than $775,000 to build and operate
the meal center. Anyone wishing to get involved with this
project can go to www.lablesareforjars.org.
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The October, 2006
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