Earlier today Valley Independent Sentinel Editor Eugene Driscoll posted an extensive list of storm-related news about Sunday's flooding and what the public can do to help.
Compiling all of this vital information for the community is a wonderful idea!
Kudos to Driscoll and his staff for their great coverage of this natural disaster that has affected so many of our Valley neighbors.
Sharing the link here:
Sharing post from the Valley Independent Sentinel:
https://valley.newhavenindependent.org/article/state_rep_beware_of_fake_donation_website
This is a link to the real GoFundMe page:
https://www.gofundme.com/f/our-5-children
State Rep. Mary Welander represents the 114th District, which includes part of Derby.
DERBY - A horrific car crash on the Hutchinson River Parkway in Scarsdale, N.Y. early Sunday took the lives of five children ages 8-17 who recently had moved here from New York.
Click the link below from today's Valley Independent Sentinel for information about the fatal crash.
The community has come together since news of the fatal accident was reported Sunday to help the family pay funeral costs.
As of this posting Monday evening a GoFundMe page had raised $46,561 toward a $50,000 goal. To donate, visit https://gofund.me/65f03ef2
Sharing post from Lillian Outlaw:
"My mom, Charmain McFadden, has been battling Covid-19 since December.
"She is currently fighting for her life in ICU, sedated, on a ventilator. Covid has also caused blood clotting, pneumonia, and a bacterial infection in her body. Today we received a call that she will most likely not make it - BUT we have a God that is able.
"Our mom is an essential worker at Yale New Haven Hospital, a mother of seven sons and a grandmother of 10. She is also a sister, a wife, an auntie, a cousin, a friend to many and a peacemaker to everyone around her. She is a follower of Christ and lives for her sons and grands.
"This fundraiser is being made so that when she comes home, she doesn’t have to rush back to work. She has several preexisting conditions and we don’t want her to be as risk any longer. This will help her pay her car payment, utilities, rent, etc.
"If the worst case scenario happens, which we are praying it won’t, all of the funds will go directly to taking care of her youngest sons. It will go to their housing, their bills, food, and education.
"I know we are just some random family that you may not know, but this is our mom. We ask that if you cannot donate, please pray for a miracle. Please pray for her lungs to begin working on their own and her body to have full and complete healing.
"We also ask if you cannot donate, please share this so maybe someone will see it and donate.
"Thank you, from the bottom of our hearts."
Here's the link: https://gofund.me/70be9700
