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?
Sorry to hear it... But the majority will have to appeal to Obama. He can save them.
Call Shep Smith. He will be all over this ... won’t he?
bttt
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.
“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
What are Bloomberg and Andrew doing for the area?
Wasn’t Obama in SI last week promising them the moon and stars?
I would support the Salvation Army.
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.
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.
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.
Sorry. If Staten Island wants help they should look to Obama.
They voted for him to be their savior then so be it.
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.
Operation Blessing is the only one I support these days.
SA pays half a million a year to the chair.
How can I donate food items? I’m about 20 miles from Staten Island.
I agree. I don’t consider New York (and several other states) part of America anymore. Let them go elsewhere.
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.
Are you sure about that? You may be thinking of The Red Cross.
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