Sandy Donations on the Road to South Jersey
West Caldwell Police Department escorting truckloads of items to hurricane survivors.
Nine truckloads of donations for survivors of Hurricane Sandy are making their way from West Caldwell to south Jersey Monday morning. The items were collected by the West Caldwell Police Department for more than a week at a donation center established in a vacant retail store on Bloomfield Avenue. The trucks were led by a large police escort out of the Essex Mall and were heading down the New Jersey Turnpike early Monday. In all, some 150 pallets of donations were collected, according to West Caldwell Det. Paul Mazzeo, who co-organized the collection with Sgt. Shawn O'Dowd. “We were collecting donations until the very last minute when we closed the doors at 8 p.m. last night,” Mazzeo said. O'Dowd, speaking from one of nine police car …
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Charlene
8:31 am on Tuesday, November 20, 2012
Very Proud of and thankful for the O'Dowd brothers and their humanitarian efforts and the communities of WC and Montclair for their time and generosity. -C. Sasso [WC resident, born in Montclair, my kids born in Pt. Pleasant] more ›