Saturday, November 10, 2012
Donations will be accepted through Sunday at the Wayland Stop & Shop.
It took only five hours to fill a 40-foot Stop & Shop truck full of donations for victims of Hurricane Sandy in Breezy Point, N.Y. "I am overwhelmed by people's generosity," said Cynthia Hill, who spearheaded the effort and worked with the Wayland Town Center location of Stop & Shop to secure the truck, driver, gas and workers to pack the truck. From 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Friday, residents from Wayland, Sudbury, Weston, Hudson and other locations dropped off clothing, food, tools, cleaning supplies and more. They donations flowed with such abundance, that Stop & Shop will be providing a second truck. The plan is to accept donations Saturday and Sunday from 10 a.m.-3 p.m. The truck will then head to New York on Tuesday. Hill said that plenty of …
Thursday, November 8, 2012
The clothing has already poured in, but the need for construction equipment and tools remains great.
Breezy Point Project organizer Cynthia Hill said Thursday that the donations of clothing have already come pouring in for the truck that will leave from the Wayland Town Center Stop & Shop with donations for Hurricane Sandy victims. What she really needs, Hill said, are the construction and clean-up items below (those with an asktrisk are especially important): Hill is working with the as-yet-unopened Stop & Shop location at Wayland Town Center to collect items for the Queens, N.Y., neighborhood of Breezy Point, which suffered terrible devastation during Hurricane Sandy in the form of both flood and fire. Stop & Shop is donating a 40-foot truck, the driver, gas and help to load the truck, but donations are needed. Hill said that several …
A truck parked at the Wayland Town Center Stop & Shop through Sunday will carry donations to Breezy Point, N.Y., an area devastated by flood and fire during Hurricane Sandy.
It's been about 10 days since Hurricane Sandy ripped through sections of New York and New Jersey, gashing the landscape and leaving behind wounds that will heal, but with scars. In Wayland, power lines and trees bore the brunt of Sandy's wrath, but those small inconveniences pale in comparison when the images of locations in Sandy's direct path cross television screens and magazines. Wayland resident Cynthia Hill on Sunday night watched a segment of "60 Minutes" focused on the section of Queens, N.Y., known as Breezy Point. It's a community that Hill first encountered after 9/11, when Hill and her husband, David, traveled to a fire station in New York to meet some of the firefighters who lost colleagues the day of the attacks. On Sept. 11…
Cynthia Hill
7:21 am on Sunday, November 11, 2012
A million thanks to you all... I'm delighted to report a 53' truck has been added to our "fleet." Please continue bring your donations until 3pm today. See you there. more ›