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Phillipines Relief

I just spoke to the wonderful woman Ysa Wellar at One Best Asian Foods in Ronkonkoma who began the donation collection effort to help the Typhoon victims.  They are collecting food and clothing and trucking to the west coast to ship by boat.  My past experience is that its too slow and the ports and mail system in Phillipines are not secure, nothing gets where it is supoosed to go.  This has to be flown in.  Who knows anyone in the Air Force, Air Guard, etc, to talk to so that we can get everything to WestHamton and shuttled across country and the Phillipines?  Who do you know who may know someone?  The military is always flying something and I think we can get this valuable stuff to the folks who need it if we can tap into their system.

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