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Please help hurricane Sandy victims in Staten Island
Nov 28, 2012 | Kevin “Coach” Collins

Posted on 11/28/2012 3:16:26 PM PST by jmaroneps37

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 is 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 X 7 to bring homes back on line (no we are not all on line 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’s 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 of weary faces – even if for just a little while.

Would you please circulate this appeal for help for Staten Island victims of hurricane Sandy?


TOPICS: Food; Miscellaneous; Religion; Society
KEYWORDS: catholic; helpneeded; hurricanesandy
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The media doesn't really think this story is important any longer. Yesterday the Weather Channel did a story on how 5% of people in Manhattan highrises still don't have power and 30% in lower building don't have power either, but a word about people elsewhere in NYC that have NOTHING. PS without exception the worst hit areas are all heavy GOP areas hmmm!
1 posted on 11/28/2012 3:16:33 PM PST by jmaroneps37
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To: jmaroneps37

Sorry to hear it... But the majority will have to appeal to Obama. He can save them.


2 posted on 11/28/2012 3:19:36 PM PST by Dallas59 (President Robert Gibbs 2009-2011)
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To: jmaroneps37

Call Shep Smith. He will be all over this ... won’t he?


3 posted on 11/28/2012 3:25:49 PM PST by Liberty Valance (Keep a simple manner for a happy life :o)
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To: jmaroneps37

bttt


4 posted on 11/28/2012 3:25:49 PM PST by Just mythoughts
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To: jmaroneps37

After numerous reports of hostility from Union thugs from help sent - and that region’s continuous lofting of Obama as Dictator over us all - why should we subject ourselves to their contempt and willful spitting on our aid?

They do not want our help - and if they do - they want it on their terms (money robbed from us by government and redistributed).

Let them pray to Obama and the Unions whom they have made as their gods to help them.


5 posted on 11/28/2012 3:26:12 PM PST by INVAR ("Fart for liberty, fart for freedom and fart proudly!" - Benjamin Franklin)
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To: Dallas59

“But the majority will have to appeal to Obama. He can save them.”

Only if they have official Obama prayer rugs and pray 5 times a day facing Chicago


6 posted on 11/28/2012 3:26:24 PM PST by Smedley (It's a sad day for American capitalism when a man can't fly a midget on a kite over Central Park)
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To: jmaroneps37

What are Bloomberg and Andrew doing for the area?
Wasn’t Obama in SI last week promising them the moon and stars?


7 posted on 11/28/2012 3:30:10 PM PST by CaptainK (...please make it stop. Shake a can of pennies at it.)
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To: jmaroneps37

I would support the Salvation Army.


8 posted on 11/28/2012 3:34:19 PM PST by Citizen Tom Paine (An old sailor sends)
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To: INVAR
Let them pray to Obama and the Unions whom they have made as their gods to help them.

The people of Staten Island tend to vote Republican. I promise you there is no way the Knights of Columbus on Staten Island voted for Obama. The Knights are one of the most pro-life groups in the country. It is group filled with good, God fearing family men.

I will send the Knights a check. Thanks for posting.

9 posted on 11/28/2012 3:35:37 PM PST by old and tired
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To: old and tired; INVAR

I should add that I understand your anger. It’s the same anger I am feeling towards a liberal Obama voting family member (Catholic nun) who does some very good work in the inner city. Every Christmas she tells us of a specific need and we have been very generous. This year we’re telling her we’re saving our money to pay for the tax increases. Truth is, I’m now going to send to the Knights on Staten Island what we’d have spent on her mission.


10 posted on 11/28/2012 3:39:13 PM PST by old and tired
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To: jmaroneps37

Thank you. I copied and pasted in an email to myself, so I won’t lose the page. Staten Island is one of the few largely Republican districts in the area (not that that matters so much in times like these). These are solid, hard-working folks who need a hand. I will do what I can.


11 posted on 11/28/2012 3:41:07 PM PST by SueRae (It isn't over. In God We Trust.)
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Sorry. If Staten Island wants help they should look to Obama.

They voted for him to be their savior then so be it.


12 posted on 11/28/2012 3:43:59 PM PST by eyedigress ((zOld storm chaser from the west)/?)
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To: Dallas59

How charming your response is.

In case you don’t know, Staten Island votes Republican. For years, they have been trying to divorce themselves from New York City. I’m donating to the Knights - a very conservative organization.


13 posted on 11/28/2012 3:43:59 PM PST by miss marmelstein
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To: Citizen Tom Paine

Operation Blessing is the only one I support these days.
SA pays half a million a year to the chair.


14 posted on 11/28/2012 3:46:11 PM PST by eyedigress ((zOld storm chaser from the west)/?)
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To: jmaroneps37

How can I donate food items? I’m about 20 miles from Staten Island.


15 posted on 11/28/2012 3:46:30 PM PST by miss marmelstein
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To: miss marmelstein

http://www.silive.com/news/index.ssf/2012/11/obama_takes_staten_island_in_p.html#incart_river


16 posted on 11/28/2012 3:48:38 PM PST by eyedigress ((zOld storm chaser from the west)/?)
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To: jmaroneps37
Looking at the 2012 election results for Staten island, I'd say that they had better go ask Obama and their re-elected or newly elected DemocRat overlords for help.
17 posted on 11/28/2012 3:50:09 PM PST by Timber Rattler (Just say NO! to RINOS and the GOP-E)
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To: INVAR

I agree. I don’t consider New York (and several other states) part of America anymore. Let them go elsewhere.


18 posted on 11/28/2012 3:56:08 PM PST by rcofdayton (.)
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To: old and tired

I’m sure here and there, are a few decent folks amidst the storm trooping Marxofascists worshipping the state.

That said - I’m done and tired of the ridicule and condescension from the Northeast. That and derision during our multiple disasters here in the Southeast and the rejection of help sent by our people due the Union Goons and other trash - has made me realize that if you are stuck behind enemy lines - GET OUT. We cannot afford to help them any more.

They are on their own. Let them pray to the State and their messiah for sustenance, aid and help when they need it.

They certainly laugh and scoff at us during our times of trial and continuously wish us dead or imprisoned or silenced because of our values and lifestyles down here.

If we can demand ‘moderate Muslims’ speak out against Jihadists or be counted among them during the debates over the War on Terror in the last decade - I don’t see why we cannot apply that same principle to decent folks living among the enemy.

Setting an example of charity in those regions seems to only embolden the demands for more charity and welfare being stolen by the point of a gun to our heads. No one is converting to the values of Conservative Christianity in those areas by our generosity. Instead it breeds contempt and more demands the state take from us to give to them.

Yes, I’m angry - the actions of their ‘leaderships’ various, solidified my justifiable comments about the fact we need to look to our ‘own’ household of faith and values from now on.

Until such time as there is repentance and a request for forgiveness.

Which I highly doubt would come from them.


19 posted on 11/28/2012 5:01:09 PM PST by INVAR ("Fart for liberty, fart for freedom and fart proudly!" - Benjamin Franklin)
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To: eyedigress
SA pays half a million a year to the chair.

Are you sure about that? You may be thinking of The Red Cross.

20 posted on 11/28/2012 5:08:57 PM PST by arasina (Communism is EVIL. So there.)
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