9/15/2001

THANKS TO ALL THAT CONTRIBUTED

This past weekend the Long Island Racing community came to the aid of those in need at the World Trade Center, at Riverhead Raceway & Medford Raceway, by collecting things for the police officers, firefighters & everyone else who is helping in the recovery effort from this past week's World Trade Center terrorist attacks. The response was phenomenal.  The racing community brought everything that was asked for, from socks & underwear to bottled water & band-aids. Many were impressed with the out pouring of people young & old who came to the tracks to help with this effort. Some of them just came to drop off there things & leave while others came to say how they felt & that is was important that they were there, to do their small part.  Team Brigati's trailer was stuffed to the top with anything & everything you could imagine, as well as the Marrzmotorsports trailer as well. The teams did a great job and thanks from the bottom of our hearts is well deserved, as well as everyone who took part in collecting things for the workers at Ground Zero. There's still a lot to be done in the near future and we know you'll be there to help out if need be .  If you haven't done anything now, you still can. You can contact radio stations WBAB 102.3 or WBLI 106.1 on the web at www.wbab.com or www.wbli.com for further information on how you can help. Or if you have the time, bring the things you've collected to Island Harvest Warehouse at 100 Engineers Road out in Hauppauge. Another avenue of helping out is making a check out to Americares and dropping it off at your nearest Friendly's Ice Cream Store.  A special thanks goes out as well to Joe & Linda Larsen at Riverhead Raceway for all their help and Theresa Holmberg from Medford Raceway for putting out the word, where she works (Magnetico) and their contributions.  Also thanks to the local media outlets of WBAB, WBLI, K-Rock, WCBS News Radio 880, CBS 2, WINS1010, and any other media outlets who helped spread the word.  Once again thanks...

Sources:  J.A. Ackley/Dave Brigati/Bob McCormack/LongIslandJam.com
Posted:  September 17, 2001