Wili AM

Dear Wayne,
I would like to nominate my daughter for the Ray of Sunshine Award. Her name is Jessica Medina and is 23 years old. Jessica was born in Bridgeport, Connecticut and moved to Willimantic at the age of 12 years old. She is a graduate of Windham Regional-Vocational Technical School with a focus in Culinary Arts and a graduate of Eastern Connecticut State University with a Bachelor's in Business. Jessica has a giving heart. Some of her good deeds include donating and volunteering at the Willimantic Soup Kitchen, donating and volunteering at the Manchester Soup Kitchen, Volunteering at Haven Health Nursing Home, She has also donated articles of clothing and toiletries to the no freeze shelter here in Willimantic. She has volunteered at Windham Hospital and at the Willimantic Public Library for children's activities. She is the secretary for The Ladies Improvement Society, an organization which is 100 years old of the Willimantic Camp Meeting Association and she also sponsors a child through a Christian based program. She also participates in the "Welcoming Desk" at her church on Sundays, and also volunteers her time in the Bazaar at the Willimantic Camp Meeting every June cooking and selling the "Walking Tacos". I'm sure that there are more things that she has done and is still doing and will continue to do and all this while holding a fulltime job and part time job and an active member in our community and at ther church. I really think that Jessica Medina should be awarded the Ray of Sunshine Award and benefits that come with the award because she works tirelessly to help others and she never says NO and she in my opinion is an extraordinary role model for young people in general. Everyone who knows Jessica will tell you how wonderful of a person she is and how caring.