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Published On: 9/25/14

Matt Haley Celebration Set For Sunday

By: ShoreBread via Maryland Coast Dispatch

FENWICK — A Celebration of Life has been set for this weekend for noted restaurateur and philanthropist Matt Haley, who died tragically in a motorcycle accident in August while on a six-week humanitarian mission in northern India and Nepal.

Haley was the founder and CEO of Matt Haley Companies based in Rehoboth, which owns and operates top-notch restaurants throughout Sussex County including the popular Blue Coast in Bethany and Catch 54 in Fenwick, to name a couple.

Haley, the 2014 recipient of the James Beard Humanitarian Award, was on a six-week humanitarian mission through northwestern India and Nepal when he was involved in a motorcycle accident near the town of Leh, India. At the time, he was traveling with international film maker and motorcycle expert Guarav Jani.

Haley had been a frequent visitor to India and Nepal, where he had done considerable charity work. In 2011, he founded a non-profit foundation called the Global Delaware Fund. The GDF supports education and the arts and protects children both globally and locally. In Delaware, the GDF has contributed funds and services to the Delaware Adolescent Program, the Boys and Girls Club, the Food Bank of Delaware, the Delaware KIDS Fund, Children and Family First, the Delaware Breast Cancer Coalition, Camp Barnes, Casa San Francisco and the United Way of Delaware.

A Celebration of Life for Haley has been set for Sunday at the Freeman Stage. Haley had recently joined the Board of Directors for the Joshua M. Freeman Foundation, a charitable organization that also runs the popular Freeman Stage concert venue at Bayside in Fenwick Island. The event is open to the public and the Freeman Stage can accommodate over 2,000 people.

“Matt touched so many live, we felt it was only right to give as many people as possible the opportunity to pay tribute to him,” said Scott Kamerer, president and CEO of the Matt Haley Companies. “The service will be a celebration. Matt would want people to remember him with laughter, kindness and joy.”

Featured speakers are expected to include those who worked closely with Haley personally and professionally. Many of the guests will represent the various non-profit organizations Haley founded and supported. Guests are encouraged to bring a non-perishable food item to the service to support one of Haley’s grassroots causes, the Food Bank of Delaware.

The event will include charitable giving, music and the Big Thunder Roadside Kitchen food truck, one of Haley’s last projects.

 

 

 

 

 

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