Friday, July 27, 2012

Pet Therapy Volunteer Barbara Moccia and Skylar, Nanuet, New York

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by Barbara Moccia Several years ago, the Moccia household was filled with pets: our wonderful Schnoodle (a cross between a Schnauzer and ...
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Monday, July 23, 2012

Beauty Is Possible, Even in Brokenness

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Pastor Burt Crabbe addresses Red Cross High School Club members “Profoundly jarring.” That’s how Bert Crabbe, pastor of True North Com...
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Friday, July 20, 2012

“If they weren’t here, we don’t know what would have happened to us.”

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 Photo: E. Calderon/S. Johnson  Okisha Ashley, her four children and her grandmother, Nellie, who was visiting from the Island of Ja...
Wednesday, July 18, 2012

I am extremely grateful for my First Aid and CPR training from the American Red Cross

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By Catherine Lague, Greater New York Red Cross Assistant Director, Outreach and Preparedness The first Sunday in July, I was trying to es...
Monday, July 16, 2012

Red Cross Pet Therapy Volunteers Judy Audevard and Kizzy, Somers, New York

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Judy Audevard and her 11-year-old Bichon Frise, Kizzy, came to pet therapy in an unexpected way. Audevard adopted Kizzy from the Greater...
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Tuesday, July 10, 2012

My Five-Alarm Life: Home

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By Aabye-Gayle D. Francis-Favilla Home—there’s no place like it. But after the fire in our apartment building left us displaced for almo...
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Tuesday, July 3, 2012

Finding a Way to Help: Volunteering at the ECC

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By Gena Sabin While I have lived in New York City for most of my life, I was new to the Bensonhurst, Brooklyn neighborhood when I heard ...