Fire Tragedy in Johns Creek and The Formation of Cornetta Charitable Foundation
Pastor Michael Cole Accepts Position to Head Advisory Board of Foundation, Fulton County Fire Chief Few’s Email to Mr. Cornetta Showing His Displeasure with the Donation Drive.
ATLANTA, GA - June 14, 2007 - With 1% of gross sales for area stores and 2% of gross sales from our Johns Creek store, The Love Shack, through the first 12 days of June has already raised more then $2,500. This money will help the families of the victims of a recent fire in the community of Johns Creek and to assist in the development of a Fire Department in Johns Creek.
This amount does not include the personal donation that John and Irina Cornetta have already made of $500 to both the Callahan family and to the Felix Roberts Memorial Fund.
In other developments, Cornetta Enterprises, the management company for the Love Shack chain and other business‘, has formed The Cornetta Charitable Foundation. This Foundation will serve as the backbone of all of Cornetta Enterprises’ charitable contributions from this day forward. The Foundation will focus most of its resources on family shelters, prevention and cures for sexually transmitted diseases and abused women.
A board of advisors is being formed to assist the Foundation in how it can best serve all communities in need. Mr. Cornetta has asked Pastor Michael Cole of the Cathedral at Chapel Hill in Decatur to head the board and aid in the selection of other board members. Mr. Cornetta’s only request of Pastor Cole is that the board be as diverse as the city of Atlanta.
In a statement released, Pastor Cole said, “’Pure and undefiled religion is to the widows and the orphans.’ I am honored to be a part of a foundation that is fulfilling this verse.”
After sending out the first press release regarding Cornetta Enterprises’ charitable donations, we received an email response from Fulton County Fire Chief Larry Few who denied the monetary donations on behalf of the victims of the Johns Creek fire tragedy.
Mr. Cornetta responded to Chief Few by telling him the money would be donated to the families of the victims whether he liked it or not.
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