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For those of you that shared our games, face painting, teddy stuffing, bouncy castle, food, music and the Plandome Fire Dept. at it's bravest, a hearty, "Thank You". And for those who wish you could have but didn't have a chance, look for us next year at the same time. We raised some money to buy bears for children in crisis and everyone had a great time. A special note of appreciation to the Girl Scouts who were wonderful helpers!! YEAH ...enjoy the pictures!
Join your friends of Hugs Across America at our summer picnic Saturday, June 19th, 2010. Come, rain or shine, to Plandome Road near Northern Blvd. for fun, food, crafts, and plenty of activities for the little ones.
Bring family, friends and neighbors for this fun-filled fundraiser.
Logan Beard, 13, helps sift through the debris of a home on Eagle Lake in
Warren County north of Vicksburg , Miss.
on Saturday, April 24, 2010. Gov. Haley Barbour told The Associated Press
there was "utter obliteration" in parts of Yazoo County
where he is from.
Mary Hamilton, Director of the Jackson American Red Cross, has requested 1,000 bears for children of the 700 families that have lost everything! 150 – 175 mile per hour winds simply destroyed everything in the 1 mile wide path of the tornado. In addition to the destruction of homes, 10 people, including three children, were killed as the storm swept across Mississippi. The teddies will help give those children who lost so much a little message of huggable hope. They are so frightened, not knowing what will happen.
In a report from Naomi Smith, American Red Cross for West Virginia Miner’s, as she spoke of the Memorial Service for the 29 miner's who lost there lives in the Big Branch disaster, and the grieving town. The town is returning to work but is just "OK" as they continue struggling with grief and the obvious absence of so many friends and family. The Memorial Service, April 25th, was such
a touching and significant beginning to healing…with the President and Vice President attending as well as other noted dignitaries.
Hugs was asked to send another 100 teddies for those children attending the memorial ….and every single bear was taken. With so much Secret Service around, the teddies had to be screened before they could be brought into the memorial. Although the Red Cross was not allowed to take pictures, Naomi spoke of the children’s response. “You know it’s the quieter children, the ones that couldn’t speak about it, that were having the most difficult time…and they were the ones that grabbed the bears to their hearts and held on tight.” “I’m going to keep this with me for ever and ever”, said one youngster as she spoke to a Red Cross worker.
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