[Sca-cooks] Relief Efforts

[Elaine Koogler]

On the donation thing...check to see if your employer or anyone else in your
area is doing the matching funds thing.  This is a way to make your donation go
twice as far.  Essentially, the idea is that the company will match your
donation.  Phillip's employer, Oracle Corp., is doing matching funds, and our
Family Meds drugstore is, as well.

Kiri

Diana wrote:

> Please, everyone....Call the Red Cross or United Way before you buy
> anything.  I know that Bloomies here donated every sock in their inventory
> to the cause - and the lists change hourly as to what they need.
>
> We were told that if we wanted to help, please look to help in a week, two
> weeks and a month.  This effort will go on for a long time - not just the
> clean up, but helping to support and heal people's hearts and minds.  There
> is also a fund started to help the families of those rescue workers who are
> MIA after the collapse - I can't remember what it is called at the moment,
> but I will post after I find it again (lack of sleep will do that to your
> brain).
>
> No matter how far away you are, you can donate cash to ANY Red Cross Unit.
> The cash will be used to buy whatever they need.  Also, if you are buying
> supplies to help the cause, almost *all* places we have gone have been
> giving deep discounts to those buying supplies (yea, buying over 500
> packages of batteries and 100 blankets gave them an idea that we were not
> buying these items for ourselves - the sales person asked and gave us a
> discount for that purpose).
>
> Other things you may want to do:  go into your local police station or fire
> station and say 'thank you' for the job these brave souls do every day, tell
> someone in the military, a cop on the street or a national guard person that
> you appreciate them for what they do, commit random acts of kindness.
>
> In Service,
>
> Diana d'Avignon
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Hrolf Douglasson" <Hrolf at btinternet.com>
> To: <sca-cooks at ansteorra.org>
> Sent: Saturday, September 15, 2001 6:55 AM
> Subject: [Sca-cooks] Relief Efforts
>
> > I have just got this from one of my other lists. I am too far away to
> help,
> > but mybe some of the sca that side of the atlantic may find it useful.
> > vara
>
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