Hurricane Sandy victims in Staten Island are suffering far more than is being reported. Won’t you please help?
We need help feeding our neighbors whose lives have been destroyed. We need your prayers as well. The Red Cross and FEMA are doing very good work, but even they are falling behind.
I am a volunteer at a relief center set up by and for ordinary Staten Islanders with no government help. We are retired New York City Police Officers and Firemen. We serve 800 to 1000 meals a day from our own pockets and the generosity of other ordinary people.
I know you are not hearing and/or seeing much about Staten Island in the media, but the devastation is much worse than any single entity can fix without help.
Staten Island is a suburban county within New York City, but that is the extent of our connection to “The City.” The section of Staten Island I am asking for help for consists of largely single family homes, whose owners are mainstream Middle America.
We need help; please help us. We have craftsmen from around the nation working 24/7 to bring homes back online (no, we are not all online yet as the media would suggest) – but we need food and/or money for food.
Anyone wishing to make a donation that will go 100% to feeding Midland Beach Sandy victims can send a check to: Hurricane Relief Fund c/o Knights of Columbus Staten Island Council 1662 22 Hillside Terrace Staten Island NY 10308.
We don’t need clothes. The region and the nation have opened their hearts and closets to provide enough warm clothes for now.
We need food and/or money for food to help feed victims who have nothing, no home or belongings – really nothing because they ran out of their homes in knee-deep water into the night during a raging storm.
One restaurant owner who has been helping us feed people at the Midland Beach Relief Center is Eddie Canlon. Eddie won the Thanksgiving Day episode of the Food Channel’s “Chopped” and is a man who is always there to help others.
You can contact any Staten Island restaurant, but Eddie Canlon has already started donating his own money and services to feed hungry Midland Beach Staten Island victims. You can contact Canlon’s restaurant at: 718 667 3013 1825 North Rail Road Ave SI NY 10306.
Arrange to pay for as many or as few food trays as you wish to be delivered to Midland Beach Relief Center 1126 Olympia Blvd (at Lincoln Ave) SI 10306, and Canlon will take it from there.
Separate issue: if anyone wants to just write a letter of encouragement to Midland Beach victims, they can write to the Midland Beach Relief Center 1126 Olympia Blvd (at Lincoln Ave) SI 10306. Letters of this kind even from strangers can put a smile on weary faces – even if for just a little while.
Would you please circulate this appeal for help for Staten Island victims of Hurricane Sandy?
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I’m sorry but aren’t these the people that voted Obama into office again? Let them ask him for help. I have no sympathy.
People are people. I’m sure everyone in Staten Island did not vote for O. We are a mixed group of Human Beings. This country is noted for its charity to its citizens. To turn your back on them is to support the idea that the gov. should do it and even legislate your charity. You cannot legislate what is in one’s heart. Besides, what goes around, comes around. It may be O voters this time and people who voted as you did next time……. If it is not in your heart, maybe it should be.
If rather, you are inferring that stale story that the Catholics put him into office, you are WAY out of touch.
Yes but the majority did vote him into power again so the likelihood that i will be helping an obama voter is pretty high. I’d rather not.
I agree that not all of them voted for Obama. Now is not the time to punish them for how they voted. To turn a back to people in need just because some of them didn’t vote your way is not the American way. At least they voted. They will learn soon enough if their vote was a wise one and all the food stamps and welfare checks are now worthless to the freeloaders. When the supermarkets are closed or empty, food stamps are worthless. I don’t feel the least bit sorry for them but I also can’t turn my back on people in need. The author sings high praises of the Red Cross and FEMA and a small mention about the Knights of Columbus, but says nothing at all about the Salvation Army, Saint Vincent De Paul and other Christian and Jewish organizations that I know are also there helping. I know this because I have friends in those organizations. Our Church and the other churches, along with the Salvation Army, in our area are collecting food and clothing and money donations to be sent there. Our area isn’t the only ones. Numerous churches in other areas of our state are dong the same thing. No one in the Main Stream Media wants to talk about that. I have also made donations to the Salvation Army and Saint Vincent De Paul. If I was younger I would be among those who volunteered to go and help clean up. Not all volunteers were graciously accepted. Some technicians from other states volunteered to help restore electrical power, only to be turned away because they did not belong to a union. Talk about biting a helping hand. I commend the retired police and fireman and the restaurateur who have been, unselfishly, giving of their own time and money to to help their friends and fellow victims in this disaster. They are what America is all about. By the way. I am also not happy with the election results.