You can help Friends Helping Friends bring relief to Texas after devastating storm
How you can help those affected by recent winter storms
and last updated 2021-03-03 05:17:54-05
RICHMOND, Va. Help is on the way from the streets of Richmond to communities that are in need in Dallas after a devastating winter storm last month.
Bobby Vincent is a long-time supporter of local nonprofit Friends Helping Friends, and heâs gearing up to join a team headed to Texas for the relief project.
âWhen you donât have running water or heat, when you donât have a pantry full of food, we just want our community to open its heart and show Texas that we careâ Vincent said.
Just after the sun set on Wednesday, Jan. 20, staff from the Auburn Rescue Mission bundled up and stepped into the frigid dark to conduct the annual Point in Time Count.
The 24-hour effort, required by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, tallies the number of homeless people nationwide. Counters search for unsheltered people and combine them with the people in emergency shelters and other facilities. In Cayuga County, the Auburn Rescue Mission led the count in coordination with the Housing & Homeless Coalition of Central New York.
Gary Mann, program manager of the Auburn Rescue Mission, told The Citizen that he and his staff found two unsheltered homeless people this year. One agreed to take shelter, while the other warned the counters to stay away. They found signs of more people, Mann said, and they might have found them if they weren t restricted from using volunteers this year due to COVID-19. Having fewer counters also made the staff more cautious than usual
DARLINGTON With their worldwide club folding, a community-minded group of Darlington area women decided to forge ahead with their own group.
So wave hello to the Little Beaver Helping Hands, which since 1984 had been known as the Little Beaver Lioness Club. We will continue to service the local communities, former Lioness Club member-turned-Little Beaver Helping Hands spokeswoman Benoit Walton said recently. Our fundraising projects include selling our famous strawberry shortcakes at Darlington Days, the Darlington Polo concession stand, Boscov s Friends Helping Friends, Breakfast with the Easter Bunny, Santa Breakfast Workshop cookie sale, Letters for Santa, the Lioness cookbook, Night at the Races and soup sales.