I
visited Guyon Rescue this past week to deliver some needed donations and to
meet with Lenny who I have been working with the past few weeks. Guyon
Rescue (GuyonRescue.org) was formed out of the yearnings of four friends who
saw a need and felt the need to respond to all the suffering in their
community. They opened up a site at the VFW post on Mill Rd. They
have an extensive well organized store downstairs and container cargoes full of
much needed donations like cleaning supplies, shovels, rakes, sledgehammers,
contractor bags, hygiene, toiletries, hand warmers, sterno and other items .
They have one half of a tractor trailer full of pet food so if anyone
knows of a place that can distribute pet food to those in need after Sandy,
please contact them (please do not sendthem
anymore pet food–they want to get it to people who need it). Guyon
Rescue, as most of these sites, also give out hot meals for those in the area
who need it.
Shown
in one photo is Bud who came from Ohio near the time Sandy approached. He
stayed and is at Guyon Rescue every day, all day and into the night. I
did not take a photo of Lenny, Derek and all of the other volunteers that I met
last night who unloaded a large tractor trailer full from 3 counties from the
Eastern Shore of Maryland for over 3 hours. While the men unloaded, the
women sorted items in the store downstairs. This photo was taken before
that large shipment was sent by kind folks from Maryland.
This
photo is not intended to advertise this company at all. It is a statement about
the pervasive and serious problem we have here on Staten Island and all areas
devastated by Sandy are having with the mold that is growing in houses with
yellow tags, not to be completely demolished but places where mold is growing
to unbelievable degrees.
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