Volunteers Needed: Water Station for Fox Cities Marathon

Volunteers…Making It Happen!    The American Red Cross is teaming up with the 2011 Community First Fox Cities Marathon to staff a water station. With your support the American Red Cross will receive a donation of $500 for providing the 25 volunteers needed to staff water station #4. Event Details: Date: Sunday, September 18th, 2001 [...]

Recoveron Packers Tailgate Party is Back……

Recoveron Restoration is sponsoring a Packers Tailgate to raise funds for the American Red Cross! They will be serving food and refreshments. Donations are encouraged by Recoveron guests and the general public to help the American Red Cross humanitarian efforts. The tent set up 3 hours before the next five home games:  Thursday, September 1st vs.Kansas [...]

Bringing Comfort and Warmth to Those in Need

Minnie (from Pulaski) made these stuffed animals and baby quilts for the American Red Cross disaster clients in Northeast Wisconsin.  She is 82 years old and is a very creative and talented lady.  Her talents far exceed her age.  Everything from baking, writing poems and having them published, quilting, sewing and even painting.

Local Red Cross Volunteers Poised to Help

Olga Halaburda Channel Five News  — CLICK HERE for video of story. “It’s stressful. It’s exhausting. But at the same time, it’s very fulfilling. I’m glad to be going,” said Pam Kanikula, a Disaster Mental Health Volunteer with the Red Cross. Red Cross volunteer Pam Kanikula is packed and ready to help disaster victims on [...]

3 adults, 4 children displaced after fire ravages Bellevue home

Written by Hannah O’Brien Green Bay Press-Gazette BELLEVUE — A fire that likely started in a garage ravaged a house Sunday at 2217 Kensington Lane. No occupants were home when the fire started, and there were no injuries. The Bellevue Fire Department was called to the home about 4:30 p.m. Sunday. Capt. David Dellemann said [...]

Widespread Flooding in Multiple States as Storm Moves North

WASHINGTON, August 28, 2011 – More than 27,000 people spent Saturday night in shelters opened or supported by the American Red Cross as Hurricane Irene moved up the East Coast. The storm is shaping up to become a large flood relief operation and thousands of people across multiple states have already turned to the Red [...]

Hurricane Irene – North Carolina Update

Rosendale man heads east with Red Cross

James Patrenets of Rosendale heads out east as an American Red Cross volunteer to prepare for disaster assistance in the aftermath of Hurricane Irene. Patrenets departed on Friday in an Emergency Response Vehicle. (Patrick Flood/The Reporter) Written by Sharon Roznik The Reporter Area volunteers with the American Red Cross departed Friday, heading east to support [...]

Fast Facts: Hurricane Irene

Saturday night, the Red Cross operated or supported nearly 500 shelters with more than 27,000 residents. Shelters now stretch from North Carolina to Maine. We have been opening and supporting more shelters as the storm progresses, and we expect those numbers could increase with power outages and possible flooding. Our main focus right now is [...]

State Red Cross volunteers head east to New York to deliver food and beverages, help with disaster

By Charles Davis  Green Bay Press-Gazette Jerry Prellwitz is making the 17-hour drive to Middletown, N.Y., to help people there prepare for Hurricane Irene. “I don’t know what to expect. I’m hoping to get out there and find not much to do,” said Prellwitz, a volunteer with the  American Red Cross who also provided disaster [...]

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