Donations Needed for Hurricane Sandy Victims
We have heard back from Bob Grill and Linda Tice about their disaster relief trip to District 7490 in Northern NJ. They received a very warm welcome and have relayed out district’s desire to help over the next several weeks. Here is the list of items that are in demand:
Clothing, Underwear. Socks, Blankets, Mattresses, Cots, Pillows, Bedding, Towels, Coats, Sweaters, Sweatpants and Sweatshirts – All of these items must be new not used.
Bottled water
Cleaning supplies of all types - mops, brooms, pails, disinfectant, bleach, detergent Batteries, especially D size batteries
Disposable diapers for babies of all sizes Depends for senior citizens
Non-perishable food items, especially Chunky soups, protein items like tuna fish or salmon, sardines, peanut butter, bread, jellybeans, stews, canned ravioli, also juices Paper plates, plastic utensils and cups
Baby food of all types Non-electronic toys and game
There are two delivery points at this time:
1. Bob Grill Construction Site at 9817 Lanham Severn Road, Lanham, MD 20706 PH # 301-577-7768, ask for Mindy. Open 7 AM to 5 PM Monday through Friday. If have to drop off on weekend call Bob Grill at 301-704-0809 for access.
2. 2. Van Deusen Construction Company, Inc., 1007 Main Street, Fallston, Maryland, 21047. This delivery point is Northeast of Baltimore for those in the Baltimore region. Point of Contact is Jay Van Deusen 410.836.2445 x105. This site is not always open, so call ahead before dropping off your donations.
You may start delivering now to these drop off sites. If there are any other sites that can be used for donation drop off please let me know. Please arrange for a collection point for your clubs if you can and then move to these two collection sites.
If there are any of you with a commercial tractor trailer license and willing to drive to Northern NJ, please let me know and I will connect you with the tractor owner to offer assistance.
I think we have all bases cover for this initial collection We will be collecting later for a couple of schools that have been decimated.
I know many of you are collecting funds to help this effort also. We would like you to consider sending your collection to our District Project Trust Fund where it will be used judiciously to support our efforts to get the supplies to Northern VA. We have donations of equipment but do need to compensate for the fuel to get to and from Northern VA.
If you have any questions or something else for us to consider, please contact Mike McKeever at 301-490-2258, mcknm@verizon.net or me at 301-751-2114, bobparkinson@hughes.net. Mike is directing traffic and I am his back up.
Thanks to all of you in advance for the marvelous Rotarian hearts that you have for achieving yet more with your Service above Self.
YIRS, DG Bob
301-751-2114