Modern Continental Companies: Community Service

MCC sponsors Marino Foundation Golf Tournament for Integrative Medicine Research

Modern Continental was proud to organize and sponsor the First Annual Marino Foundation Autumn Classic. The tournament, which raised over $40,000 for The Foundation was held at the Shaker Hills Golf Club in Harvard, MA. Special thanks to the other Title Sponsors: Hinckley, Allen and Snyder, and The Lockton Company. The funds raised are used by the Marino Foundation to educate and research the scientific basis of new, integrative medicine. MCC looks forward to helping with the Second Annual tournament in 2003 and will provide information about the time and place as soon as it is available.

Modern helps raise $35,000 for Doug Flutie fund

On May 19, 2002 more than 1,400 runners and walkers "flocked" to Natick, Massachusetts' Marino Lookout Farm, which is owned and operated by Modern Continental, for the fourth Annual Road Race to Benefit the Doug Flutie, Jr. Foundation for Autism. The event raised more than $35,000 for the Foundation, which was founded by football star and Natick native Doug Flutie. In its 4 years, the race has raised approximately $120,000 for the Foundation. Doug, who was on hand for the race and even ran the course himself, thanked the crowd and said his family is already looking forward to next year!

Doug Flutie, with his son, Dougie Jr., addresses the crowd at Marino Lookout Farm at the May 2 road race.

$83,422 raised in charity drive

Modern Continental’s Annual Charity Drive enjoyed its most successful year ever in 2000, as employees teamed up to donate $83,422 to Project Bread and the United Way. This far surpassed the company’s goal of $55,000, and marked the largest contribution ever made by Modern employees. We hope to raise even more next year!

Modern makes assist to boys' hoop team

In December of 1999, Modern Continental helped erase the decade-long absence of a boys’ traveling basketball team in Somerville, MA with a $3,000 donation to the Somerville Traditional League. This start-up program has allowed 45 boys from the sixth, seventh, and eighth grades the chance to represent their city against other teams from the surrounding area.

The Somerville Traditional Basketball League

Senior Project Manager John Foster recently presented Modern's donation to this boys' basketball team.

A helping hand for Zoo New England

Modern Continental recently pitched in on the Stone Zoo renovation effort by demolishing several buildings to make way for $1.5 million in new animal habitats. New zoo residents who will benefit from Modern’s effort will include wolverines, arctic foxes, snowy owls, reindeer, and songbirds with their own authentic northern forest.

Modern, along with MRP Site Development, tore down the zoo’s old lion dens, concession stand, admissions building, the aviary and more. According to officials from Zoo New England, the organization that oversees the operations of the Stone Zoo, more than $1 million worth of demolition work was needed. The demolition process took more than five weeks.

After the work was completed, Zoo New England honored Modern by naming us title sponsor of "Zootopia," the organization’s annual fundraiser. Additionally, Modern was recently awarded a contract at the zoo – which is located in Stoneham (MA) – to install 1,200 linear feet of six-inch ductile iron water pipe. This work is ongoing.

Among the animals that will benefit from Modern’s assistance is the rare and exotic snow leopard, a native of the Himalayan Mountains.

Tewksbury Hospital Equestrian Farm

The Tewksbury Hospital Equestrian Farm, a treatment center for persons with disabilities and chronic illnesses, also recently turned to Modern Continental for some assistance with a project. The Farm, which uses horseback riding as a therapeutic practice, needed assistance setting up an equine area for their program. Modern provided surveying and engineering work, and also a bulldozer and operator to grade the land needed for this facility.

In June, Farm President M.J. Marcucci sent a letter to Modern President Les Marino in appreciation of the company’s efforts. "Therapeutic riding programs influence the whole person and the effects on all the body’s systems can be profound," Mr. Marcucci explains in the letter.

Key contributors for Modern were Ken Anderson, Ward Eisenhaure, Scott Mederios, Larry Rizzotti, and all of the survey crews who spent time with the engineering phase of the project.

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