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For Immediate Release

Contact Andrea Bonner,
Executive Director, The Sad Cafe
603-642-9930
andreabonner@adelphia.net

June 16, 2005

The Sad Café unveils new web site

Plaistow: The Sad Café is pleased to announce the unveiling of a new web site for their organization.

The web site was designed and will be maintained as a pro bono service of Soul Oyster Web Studios of Portsmouth New Hampshire under the creative direction of Jennifer Marcelais. “We contacted Jennifer after viewing Soul Oyster on line and seeing their commitment to community action. After writing a proposal for Jennifer she agree to do our web site pro bono”, says Andrea Bonner, Executive Director of the Sad Café.

“The Sad Café offers kids in the area an outlet to be creative in a very cool way that they’re lacking in local school systems. The more Arts and Music classes get cut out of school budgets, the more places like this are needed by kids and need to be supported by the community. I offered my services to the Sad Café because I believe in supporting unique Art & Music programs like theirs,” says Jennifer Marcelais, owner of Soul Oyster Web Studios

The Sad Café, a local nonprofit since 1998, offers after school and out of school time activities for youth.

The organization has over 10,000 visitors a year to their evening popular music venue which hosts teen bands both local and from all over New England. Over 400 bands a year play at The Sad Café, which is open three nights a week during the school year and six nights during the summer.

“ A contemporary web site with lots of color and action is important for our organization. We needed something that would appeal to youth and give them information about us, as well as information for their parents about what we are trying to do. Jennifer and Soul Oyster Studios have given us a wonderful web site that will appeal to both youth and adults and assist us in our mission of providing youth and families with safe healthy alternative options and services for their discretionary time,” says Bonner.

Soul Oyster Web Studios is based in Portsmouth, NH and provides web design, development, SEO internet marketing, Flash development, custom graphic design and logo design services. Visit http://www.souloyster.com for more information.

“This collaboration of a local business assisting a nonprofit represents the best of community spirit. Without assistance from businesses such as Soul Oyster we could not provide the services that we do to the community,” says Bonner. The Sad Café has experienced funding difficulties, most recently this past winter. However, with community support the organization raised almost $15,000 of the $16,000 necessary to pay back debt. “With support form businesses like Soul Oyster Web Studios we will be here for a long time”, says Bonner.

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