Advocate Good Samaritan Nurse Joins Zac Brown Band's Hurricane Relief Efforts
Amy Biedron is joining forces with a Lombard couple Wednesday to collect donations for Breezy Point, one of the neighborhoods hit hardest when Sandy hit the east coast last month.
An Advocate Good Samaritan Hospital nurse and Lombard family are teaming up with country music's Zac Brown Band to collect donations for Hurricane Sandy relief efforts. Donations will be collected from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. Wednesday at the Lombard Kmart, 345 W. Roosevelt Road. A 53-foot semi-tractor trailer will be set up in the parking lot. The most needed items include contractor bags, shovels, pry bars, wheelbarrows, five-gallon buckets, brooms, mold remover, one-or two-gallon hand pump sprayers, saws, portable generators and batteries, according to a press release. All items collected will be sent to one of the areas hit hardest by the storm, Breezy Point, a neighborhood in the New York City borough of Queens. Amy Biedron, a nurse in Good…
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Pastor Suzanne Anderson-Hurdle
12:26 pm on Tuesday, November 27, 2012
My family and I spent Sunday, 11/11 in Breezy Point, connecting with the Point Breeze Fire Department. As a Fire and Police Chaplain, I knew the need there would be great and would go beyond mere physical items. The people of Breezy are amazingly strong and connected but they do need our help. What a gift this will be for them. I encourage people to give and, please check out this link for more … more ›