Grosse Pointe Park mom and former resident of towns hit by Hurricane Sandy gets behind a very personal relief effort.
Tricia Hexter's Grosse Pointe Park home has turned into a Hurricane Sandy donation center, taken over by boxes and bags of coats, shoes, clothes, books, toys, toiletries and more with a whole system for loading it up, moving it out, and getting help where it's needed on the East Coast. Hexter moved to the Park two years ago from Port Jefferson, NY, a city suffering Sandy's destruction. It's just one city where Hexter has friends and family who have lost everything or almost everything. Breezy Point, Staten Island, Shelter Island and other nearby towns are also destination points for the dozens of boxes that have left Grosse Pointe in the days since Sandy blew ashore Nov. 1. Every day since the storm blew through, Hexter's home has become …
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Employees help out, and you can, too, Grosse Pointe.
It's been said it's far better to have a neighbor who's near, than a brother who's far away—but in the wake of Hurricane Sandy, Americans across the nation have proven to be the best neighbors and the strongest of families. This past weekend, AOL and Patch employees took an opportunity to pitch in, packing two tractor trailers worth of food, water and supplies in Dulles, VA, and Baltimore. The donations are headed to Hurricane Sandy ravaged areas in New Jersey and Long Island. Want to join the relief efforts? Click here to donate: https://donate.networkforgood.org/aol "When a catastrophe of this size hits, we all feel it, both the hundreds of us who live in the impacted towns, and our colleagues who are watching and wishing they could help…
Ingrid
2:03 pm on Friday, November 30, 2012
Can't take the spirit & New York out of this girl! Just another reason why I love you & your sis as much as I always will! Muah! So proud of an amazing human being named Tricia! more ›