Events

The Tri-County Red Cross is having it's inaugural Mayor's Jail and Bail to raise money for local disaster relief.  Mayors from all 22 towns have been invited to participate, as have other community leaders such as school board members, business leaders, religious leaders, police and fire chiefs and more.

Mayors Colleen Mahr of Fanwood and Vic Sordillo of Warren are our chairs for this event, which will be held on October 2, 2010 at the Fanwood Municipal Court, 75 N. Martine Avenue, Fanwood, NJ. The following people have already committed.

2010 Mayors Jail and Bail Co-Chairs
Colleen Mahr, Mayor of Fanwood (Jail Bird Page)
Victor Sordillo, Mayor of Warren (Jail Bird Page) 

Mayor Jail Birds
Antonia Ricigliano, Mayor of Edison (Jail Bird Page) | Michael Giordano, Mayor of North Plainfield (Jail Bird Page) | Jim Kennedy, Mayor of Rahway (Jail Bird Page) | Joseph DeLorio, Mayor of Roselle Park (Jail Bird Page) | Nancy Malool, Mayor of Scotch Plains (Jail Bird Page) | Albert Ellis, Mayor of Watchung (Jail Bird Page) 

Elected Official Jail Birds
Derek Armstrong, Councilman of Linden (Jail Bird Page) | Mary Forbes, Councilwoman of North Plainfield (Jail Bird Page) | Everett Merill, Councilman of North Plainfield (Jail Bird Page) | Douglas Singleterry, Councilman of North Plainfield (Jail Bird Page) | Jamel Holley, Councilman of Roselle (Jail Bird Page)

Community Leader Jail Birds
Michael Prasad, Tri-County Red Cross Emergency Services Director (Jail Bird Page) | James Rodino, North Plainfield Public Works Director (Jail Bird Page) | Beverly Rolston-Blenman, Vice President Solaris Health Systems (Jail Bird Page) | Nathan Rudy, Tri-County Red Cross Executive Director (Jail Bird Page) | Mark Vernick, Branch Manager, TD Bank of Scotch Plains (Jail Bird Page) 

TURN YOURSELF IN!

You don't have to be a Mayor to get arrested at the Red Cross Mayors Jail & Bail -- anyone can be a "Jail Bird"! All you have to do is sign up and turn yourself in at the Fanwood Court on October 2, 2010 to be "arraigned." A celebrity judge will set "bail" at an agreed upon amount, and you then make some calls

to raise the bail in donations to the Red Cross.  You can sign up to be a Jail Bird using our personal fundraising web tools here.

HELP US RAISE BAIL

Jail Birds from all 22 towns served by the Tri-County Red Cross are being arraigned on October 2, 2010 at the Fanwood Court. You can

help them avoid jail  by donating towards their bail. All of the money raised for bail will go to support disaster prevention and relief in Union, Somerset and Middlesex Counties. Call us at (908) 756-6414 or visit a Jail Bird to bail them out of Jail!

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The Tri-County Red Cross opened a shelter at the Vermeule Community Center in North Plainfield for residents leaving their homes due to localized flooding.  Many of the creeks and streams are reaching their banks, and due to the expected continued rainfall through tomorrow are likely to overflow.

The Red Cross is opening the shelter at the request of Mayor Mike Giordano and the North Plainfield Office of Emergency Management, who are currently on-site.  Red Cross volunteers have been contacted and are arriving on the scene to roll out the supplies in the Disaster Trailer from Plainfield housed at Muhlenberg Hospital.

The Vermeule Community Center is at 614 Greenbrook Road in North Plainfield, and can house more than 150 people if necessary.

Tri-County Red Cross Emergency Services Director Michael Prasad is also monitoring other communities that flood in Union, Somerset and Middlesex counties and will assist them as needed.

You can donate to the Tri-County Red Cross disaster fund online right here, or by mailing contributions to Tri-County Red Cross, 332 West Front Street, Plainfield NJ 07060.

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Donations made to this button will be contributed to the American Red Cross International Relief Fund, which is funding the relief for the Haiti Earthquake

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The last week has been a very difficult one for the people of Haiti, and the American Red Cross has been working very hard to raise and deliver the resources necessary to assist the recovery.

In all, the American people and the American Red Cross have contributed more than $103 million to the effort.  The Tri-County Red Cross has raised more than $300,000 of that response thanks to the generosity of local businesses, churches, schools and families. 

Among those are the Wakefern Food Corporation (ShopRite stores), which has donated $250,000 to the effort.  Also many schools -- including Bayberry Elementary School, Roselle High School, Elizabeth High School, Rahway High School, Plainfield's public schools, and far more than I can mention - have been very generous in raising funds.  Add on to that the many individuals who donated online at http://www.tricountyredcross.org and this has been an amazing response from our local communities.

If your business or organization would like to help raise funds for the American Red Cross, you can call Nathan Rudy or Corinna Krauskopf at (908) 756-6414, or e-mail us at info@tricountyredcross.org.    We have a number of ways to work with your customer base to raise funds.

The chapter has also been supporting the repatriation of American citizens flown back to McGuire Air Force Base.  The Burlington County Red Cross has taken the lead and done an amazing job, and other state chapters volunteers and staff and donors have been assisting.

The funds raised above have supported the following American Red Cross actions in Haiti:

• A Red Cross field hospital has been set up at Hopital Universitaire d'Haiti in downtown Port-au-Prince, and surgeries began last night on people injured in the earthquake.  Three Red Cross Basic Healthcare Emergency Response Units (ERU) will be on the ground to provide care and triage in Port-au-Prince, and an additional ERU is being deployed.  Combined the Red Cross will be able to care for a half million people.
• Three Water and Sanitation ERUs are now on the ground setting up equipment and initial water distributions have begun.  Once at full capacity, these ERUs will provide clean water for up to 50,000 people each day.
• The American Red Cross released all of its sheltering and feeding supplies from its Panama storage supply to support 10,000 families.
• The American Red Cross provided blood and blood products to the U.S. Naval Air Station in Jacksonville, Florida.  Requested by the U.S. Navy, the blood was shipped to their facilities at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba in support of medical evacuees from Haiti. In addition, the American Red Cross has sent a shipment of blood products to the UN Mission in Haiti.

We will continue to update our website at http://www.tricountyredcross.org with more information as it becomes available.  You may also call us at (908) 756-6414 if you have questions.