DEP Invoice or Financial Record, September 30, 2001

NYC 9/11 Public Portal Document

Local Area Rallies In Support by Gabrielle Buel In small ways and large ways— $5,000 is heading to New York City have a table at this weekend’s Harvest even enormously—all over the local from the Delhi Fire Department. Fest at which they will be selling area, the American flag is waving From the town ofDelhi, reported chances for anyone who wishes to proudly and defiantly. Fluttering from town clerk Bryan Fitch, it was unani- donate towards the World Trade Cen- car antennas, hanging outside of mously agreed by town board mem- ter Fund. These donations will give a homes and shops, propped in window bers on Thursday to send $10,000 to chance to win model trucks given by boxes, grasped in the small hands of a the work relief effort in the city. This Napa and Quickway, of which there child at a vigil, the symbol of patrio- money comes from the town’s Good is an estimated 20 such trucks. The tism is being shown as it has not been Neighbor fund. drawings for these trucks will be at the felt in decades. Area youth are getting involved pack’s meeting Tuesday evening at die Many displays are accompanied as well. Delhi Scout Pack #33 will American Legion. by heartfelt words, phrases and prayers. Some are a little more intense. Qiurches have been filled more no­ ticeably and prayer services have been, and most likely will continue to be, ft held throughout the area. Evening candlelight vigils in several villages have brought out gatherings of resi- ; dents to sing and to just be together. Numerous businesses are re­ sponding to the critical needs of the victims, survivors and rescuers in New kh York City by putting together drives and collecting funds. The Delhi Quickway is conducting a fundraiser which will send one cent for every gallon of gasoline purchased up until midnight Sunday and will donate the proceeds to the American Red Cross. All Quickway Citgo stations are in­ volved in this effort. The Delhi Ames store is for­ H warding funds generated from the purchase offlag stickers placed on the Wtf front store window to the Salvation Army. At a special meeting held Tues­ day night, the membership ofthe Delhi 5 PI So# Iw If— Fire Department opted to donate funds I

recently raised through a couple of fundraisers to the New York City Fire Department’s Widow’s and Children’s n Fund. Chief Verspoor said: “We felt that we needed to do something. There are several entities that are in need now, and as firefighters, we felt it was wBI appropriate to donate to help our photos iiy Gdbnelle Bud brother firefighters and their families.”

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