Dear Editor,
I want to say thank you to everyone for helping me with my fund-raiser for the Burn Fund’s new building. I’ve now doubled my original goal which was $3000, more than doubled it and made $ $6133.45!
I made and sold 42 boxes of kindling from 3 pick-up trucks of the old shingles from the library roof and made $482.35 from returnable bottles and cans. That was a LOT of drink containers. The rest of the money came from many donations of friends, family and islanders. I hope the anonymous donors read this as I couldn’t thank them myself.
They are starting work on the building soon. It is on Main and 23rd Street. I hope you never, ever have to stay there but I’m glad it’s going to be there for you if you do and you won’t have to pay. Thank you everyone who donated, bought kindling and saved bottles and cans for me for the last 10 weeks.
Oscar Knowles-Dekker
