Sandy recovery officials ask: Where’s the Red Cross?
MONDAY, MAY 6, 2013
By HARVY LIPMAN
RECORD COLUMNIST
In the six months following superstorm Sandy, Bergen County’s United Way spent more than $300,000 from its Compassion Fund to help 260 victims of the storm repair their homes — exhausting every penny the non-profit had raised and set aside for storm relief and even dipping into its reserves.
Another local relief group, the Bergen CountyLong Term Recovery Committee, has identified some 500 Little Ferry andMoonachie residents in need of help, hiring a project director and several caseworkers to help storm victims get the assistance they need. It has also coordinated the work of hundreds of volunteers from groups like Rebuilding Together Bergen County and Habitat for Humanity.
The committee is well on its way to spending the $600,000 in grants it’s received from the Hurricane Sandy New Jersey Relief Fund to pay mainly for removing mold from storm victims’ homes.
But leaders of the local relief effort say one major player has been conspicuously absent from the long-term recovery program:
The American Red Cross.
https://www.northjersey.com/news/206226951_Sandy_recovery_officials_ask__Where_s_the_Red_Cross_.html
in the last two storm’s I did not see them. did they help any out in ridgewood.