The Noblemen Display True Regional Cooperation

The Noblemen were at it again this past holiday season and not just in Virginia Beach, their home city. 

Noblemen Founder Al Midgett with Portsmouth residents 

In a show of true regional awareness and love, volunteers came to the Parker Rec Center on Turnkpike Road in Portsmouth and distributed donated books and toys to nearly 800 grateful children and parents. 

Noblemen founder Al Midgett’s motivation to “pay it forward” through philanthropy was the result of a “gift,” as he calls it, of having a child in 1993 who was born so early that he was given a 2% chance of survival. Al had no health insurance at the time, so his “community” stepped up, covering over a half million dollars in medical expenses. His son, Matt Midgett, is alive and well as are the Noblemen, particularly during December when the group turns up in places like the Parker Center because “giving,” says Al, “is what makes our hearts sing.”