[Congressional Record Volume 168, Number 18 (Friday, January 28, 2022)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E73]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]





                     IN RECOGNITION OF BRENDA SWAIN

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                        HON. WILLIAM R. KEATING

                            of massachusetts

                    in the house of representatives

                        Friday, January 28, 2022

  Mr. KEATING. Madam Speaker, I rise today in recognition of Brenda 
Swain, a dedicated volunteer who has performed remarkable service to 
the greater Cape Cod community.
  As a young child. Brenda's parents instilled in her a spirit of 
volunteerism that has remained with her to this day. Since graduating 
college, she has put serving others at the core of all she does. For 
twenty years, she worked as a substitute teacher, an early childhood 
educator, and director of a preschool daycare center. In Falmouth, 
however, Brenda is best-known for her steadfast and transformational 
leadership of the Falmouth Service Center.
  On her first day, the Center was housed in a small room at the end of 
a shopping plaza with just thirty-five volunteers operating a food 
pantry and offering financial assistance. Today, after seventeen years 
of Brenda's guidance, the Falmouth Service Center has been transformed 
into an expansive resource for residents, providing access to health 
care, financial support, and food.
  Under Brenda's leadership, the Falmouth Service Center now operates 
fourteen different programs and boasts six hundred volunteers. Over the 
years, Brenda worked to add numerous programs such as Falmouth Eats 
Together, a community-wide free meal, to the center's offerings. She 
created fresh markets in the Falmouth Public Schools and worked to 
bring a mobile dental clinic that comes once a month to the center. 
Brenda also developed a partnership with WE CAN--Women's Empowerment 
through Cape Area Networking--which uses the service center offices 
once a month, and constantly worked to expand the center's resources 
for Falmouth residents.
  Madam Speaker, Brenda Swain has served as an unshakeable pillar 
supporting Falmouth and Cape Cod for her entire life. I ask that my 
colleagues join me in recognizing Ms. Brenda Swain's remarkable career 
and commending her for her steadfast dedication to community service 
and volunteerism.

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