The Alliance Area Ulster Project

The Alliance Area Ulster Project 2024 is featured in this article from the Canton Repository.

Please share for reach. We will be meeting soon in August to discuss the possibilities of a 2025 project. We can't remain viable without support of our volunteers.

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Promoting peace: Teens from Northern Ireland learn, grow in Alliance Alliance Area Ulster Project recently hosted eight teens from Northern Ireland. Here's where they visited locally.

All good on the other side- our Irish teens and Counselors landed this morning in Dublin, Ireland 🇮🇪
We already miss you all! ❤️

Our own Kaitlyn Waite 2023 Alumni of the The Alliance Area Ulster Project . Go Kaitlyn!

QUEENS' GIFTS: Back on June 20, the Carnation Festival queen candidates continued a tradition that started in 2011 when they competed to see who could collect and donate the most food to our Alliance Community Pantry.
This year's winner is Kaitlyn Waite who brought in more than 800 pounds of food. She is an Alliance High School senior and is sponsored by White Physical Therapy.
She and the other candidates were recognized Thursday evening at the Elks Club during a gathering of parents and sponsors. More than 1,900 pounds of food were donated this year and since it started queen candidates have delivered to the pantry more than 38,000 pounds.
The Carnation Queen Pageant will be held July 27 at Alliance High School.

It's not goodbye - it's I'll see you later ❤️ 🇮🇪 🇺🇸

Breakfast was together with many hugs and tears.

The Irish Ulster Counselors and Teens flew out today in the mess of international crash of software with flights canceled and delayed. Our teens shared letters and signed tshirts before the Irish were sent scrambling to a new flight time an hour earlier than planned, making it just in time! You guys ROCK!

Our closing service at The Chapel in Marlboro was held with emphasis on growth and change was held for The Alliance Area Ulster Project and our special teen speakers: Christina W., Ryan., W, Lilly U., and Jake D. The teens were also interviewed by the Canton Repository for a future feature article.

The service ended in a heart-tugging pinning ceremony and time of reflection for all the teens, Counselors, Host Families and Committee members.

Our talent show and ice cream social was a nice end to the evening

The Alliance Area Ulster Project held its Summer Auction last night, our teens participated in serving our patrons dinners, socializing and cleaning.

We raised over $1921 in donations and $206 50/50 which was won by Tim Umberger and donated back to the project for a total of $2127.00!

A big shout out to Sable Creek Event Center who made this happen!

Thank you to everyone who participated, donated items, baskets and joined us to raise donations towards our future projects!

Our LAST Community Project for The Alliance Area Ulster Project 2024 today at St.Lukes Nursing Home. We had a blast! Our teens helped the residents exercise and play trivia games with candy prizes.

Thank you to Terrie, Brandy and Lucas & the entire St.Lukes Activity Team and a special thank you to all the wonderful residents we were able to meet today.

*Any 📸 photos have been cleared with the facility prior to posting to respect HIPAA privacy.

Fun for our "surprise " trip to Cleveland Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Museum and a quick bite in Little Italy.

Our own Christina W. was featured to sing with the house players. Video to follow. She was unbelievable!!

Last TOD (Time of Discovery) session yesterday with Todd H. and Karen A., with fun afterwards at New Baltimore Ice Cream.

Butterflies, Puppies and great family/ food and fun get-together with the teens at the Rubensteins, long-time supporters of The Ulster Project.

Thanks to Linda Seamans Reibenstein & Todd Reibenstein for hosting all of us today!

Flying high today with the Flying Eagles as part of our education and fun with the The Alliance Area Ulster Project teens and families! More videos to come!! Thank you to all our pilots who volunteered their time, planes and expertise to make a opportunity of a lifetime!

Today, our Irish and US teens and families visited Sacred Heart of Mary Church to worship as Catholic, Protestant, and other Christian religions to learn parity between our different religions. Thank you to Fr . Humrickhouse for taking time today with our teens.

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Today, our Ulster teens enjoyed Maize Valley Car Show, Hay Ride and Golf Instruction ⛳️ with playing Par 4 at Sable Creek Golf Course . Special presentation to Bud our wonderful benefactor to Jack's Corner. Tomorrow- Cedar Point !!

Our Ulster Community Service Project yesterday was at the Stark County Hunger Task Force where we filled over 550 bags for those families in need throughout the community.

Yesterday our teens Kayaked and Canoed together at Walborn Reservoir. Learning how to paddle as one was the lessons learned. 😉

Monday was Grove City, Pennsylvania for an Outlet shopping 🛍 trip. Our teens had a great time in the stores.

2023 Ulster Project Families don't forget to join us tonight at Don Ponchos at 630pm to wrap up, reminisce, give feedback and possibly help be a part to plan our 2024 Project!

The Alliance Area Ulster Project 2023 United!

We want to see our families on the other side of the big pond!

Share a photo of you and your teens that just returned home! We want to see their smiling faces again!

Here's our first photo, Daniel McGouran and his family, mom Pauline McGouran and dad Paul!

Bittersweet Day, send off to the Airport at The Umberger's, 7.17.23.
It's not goodbye, but see you again!!!

❤️ Love you all!

The Alliance Area Ulster Project Goodbye party 7.16.23 hosted by Mark and Shirley Ryan. Always a blast!