EFTA02563360.pdf

From: House Manager/ PA < Sent: Friday, November 16, 2012 10:36 PM To: Jack Davies; Jamie Creel; Jay Snyder, Jean Karoubi; Jean Pigozzi; Jean-Christian Agid; Jean-Ed Van Praet; Jeffrey Epstein; Jeffrey Podolsky; Jen Mac; Jennifer Northrop; Jerome Levy; Jill Fairchild; Joanna Silverblatt; John Hansbury, Jose Marks; Julia Starobin; William Detwiler; Justine Lee; Kalliope Karelia; Katherine Gage; Kathleen Landis; Kelechi Odu; Kim Vernon; Christopher Forbes; Kyra Cheremeteff; Larry Creel; Laura Bode; Laurence Michiels; Laurent Moisi; Leslie Heiden; Leslie Seinfeld; Liliana Cavendish; Linda Fargo; Linda Kestenbaum; Lisa Fine; Lisa Heiden; Lisa Selby; Lynn Taliento Subject: Relief Effort #2: Far Rockaway Hello All, If you look at the photos attached you will see Far Rockaway was =it very hard by the hurricane and its residents are still without power =nd living day to day with out the basics we take for granted. Since New =ork is OUR city we have to keep up with the need for help until we =ecover. We loaded up the bus graciously donated by the LFNY with twenty =onderful volunteers from all over the city and headed to the Mount =armel Baptist Church The Bergen Beach Community Center has their eyes and ears on the =round in Brooklyn, Coney Island and Far Rockaway and as such, is able =o consistently help us get our groups, supplies and food into the right =ands. They introduced us to the team at the church yesterday and we =ere able to get hot meals to over 150 people throughout the course of =he afternoon. Amazingly, with our very limited "kitchen" (four charcoal =rills and two gas burners) and the excellent team of volunteers, we =ere able to not only offer a hot BBQ chicken dinner to the residents =ut to extend one hot meal into two by offering thermoses of = of soup and wrapped hot =andwiches as well. As the afternoon wound down and our team prepared to =epart, we donated the kitchen set up to the church and no sooner did we =lean up than another team of volunteers came and took over the grills =o heat up another round of meals for the evening. Hazarding a guess, =hose grills will be working overtime in the next few weeks. The =esidents were so happy to know they were not forgotten and the event =as a great success. Our hope is to be able to consistently help through =he coming weeks. With Thanksgiving and Christmas and more importantly, =old weather, coming we are fine tuning our approach so that we can =ontinue to provide hot meals to the people in these hard hit areas of =ur city that are still without the basic comforts of =ome. Thank you so much to everyone who donated their time, =upplies, effort, money and good energy. As we learn with each =nitiative: it is truly a collaboration to make a =ifference. Watch your email for the next =ffort! Our committed =eam trying to keep the hot meal hot! EFTA_R1_01726052 EFTA02563360 Surprisingly =he carrots were not the big favorite... The happiest customer... Sometimes we felt the =miles were as comforting as the meal... The =aucisson...that's a Nathan's hot dog to most! Elisabeth and =iane come up with a plan to "carwash" the dirty soup pots. =enius! The "to go" station... Thank you, thank you, thank you! Tracey =berman House Manager/ PA for Elisabeth de =ergorlay 2 EFTA_R1_01726053 EFTA02563361