Bank of America and Dodgers Foundation Unite to Assist Fire-Impacted Angelenos  – Los Angeles Sentinel

Barbara Shay, proprietor of The Little Pink Hen Espresso Store and Niecy Doss, proprietor of Niecy’s Delights, had been every longtime household enterprise house owners in Altadena till early January when their retailers and houses had been destroyed by the Eaton fireplace.

If Altadena, chances are high you’ve eaten at The Little Pink Hen. A gathering place with wealthy historical past, this family-owned and run restaurant had been serving the area people breakfast and lunch for the previous 55 years.

Now proprietor, Barbara Shay, daughter to Rena, the café’s unique proprietor, says the lack of the enterprise within the Eaton fireplace not solely resulted in a lack of enterprise, however group. Displaced from Altadena for now, she hopes she will work with the owner who owns the land the restaurant as soon as sat on to buy it and rebuild. (photograph 1)

“Niecy” Densie Doss ran her enterprise promoting muffins primarily based off her grandmother’s well-known recipe from her house. She often held pops ups at Aces Smoke Store and Café, the Altadena Library and Loma Alta Park farmer’s market to promote and share her well-known treats with the area people.

She misplaced every part within the fireplace, together with her house, which she operated her enterprise out of, and all her baking and enterprise provides. She is now making an attempt to look after her aged father and rebuild their house, and her enterprise.

On Saturday June 21, each Shay and Niecy acquired hope and assist within the type of $10,000 grants every from Financial institution of America and the Los Angeles Dodgers Basis to assist them rebuild their enterprise. Barbara plans to make use of the grant as seed funding to get a mortgage and rebuild the enterprise. Niecy hopes to make use of the grant to assist buy baking provides, components, and a printer. She’s planning to relaunch Niecy’s Delights by doing pop ups in East LA, close to her short-term residence, and rebuild her house.

These grants to small companies are a part of Financial institution of America’s bigger fireplace restoration efforts that target rebuilding and assist for impacted enterprise and owners, clients and communities.

Along with the grant, LADF and BofA additionally sponsored a group Useful resource Truthful on Saturday on the on the badly-damaged John Muir Excessive College in Pasadena as a part of the Dodgers Dreamteam program, which makes use of the facility of youth sports activities to offer crucial sources and providers to communities in want. Distributors and companies offered a spread of sources, from well being screenings and eye exams to fundamental necessities comparable to meals containers and discounted Metro playing cards to greater than 1,000 native households in attendance.

That is the twelfth season for the Dodger group program, with Financial institution of America the very first and ongoing sponsor. BofA had greater than 55 native staff volunteering to assist make the honest successful.