Tuesday, October 13, 2009

A Profile in Kindness


For several years we have been receiving donations from a manufacturer in South El Monte called Neostone. They manufacture high end sports wear for men and women. The timing of this donation, normally coming in the late Fall, is perfect for our Christmas event, helping us to give badly needed, brand new clothes to our clients.

Neostone was founded in 1993 by Mr. & Mrs. Cheng, who immigrated from Taiwan with their family. In their retirement, their son Allan Cheng has been running the company. Allan is an amazingly accomplished man. He received his undergraduate degree at Berkeley, a Master's in Industrial Engineering from Stanford and his MBA from UCLA. In the early part of this year he turned the day to day operations of Neostone over to his brother, Cheng Cheng and began concentrating on another company located in Alhambra. Allan's new company provides full service insurance for home, auto and life and you can find him on the internet at www.myfinancialfuture.biz.

The Cheng's are a naturally philanthropic family. They give when and where help is needed. Coming from Taiwan, they have been giving aid to the families there who have suffered from recent natural disasters in that country. Fortunately for us, the Cheng family have found the men and women of Impact to be worthy beneficiaries here in their adopted country of America. Thank goodness for that.

Monday, October 5, 2009

Memorial for David Nicassio

Very Sadly, we lost a dear, dear friend. David Nicassio, who has been our friend and family member since the 70s lost a valient fight to cancer when he died at the City of Hope.

We are having a memorial for David on Saturday, October 24 from 11am til 2pm. Lunch will be served.

Impact is at 1680 N. Fair Oaks Ave, Pasadena, CA 91103, question, call me at 626-798-0884.