Friday, December 21, 2012
Atlanta Light Bulbs donates to Red Cross relief efforts.
Atlanta Light Bulbs, Inc. of Tucker is donating $2,500 to benefit disaster relief for victims of Superstorm Sandy. The donation will go to support the American Red Cross' efforts in providing food, water, shelter, relief supplies, healthcare, and other assistance over the past month. Atlanta Light Bulbs, located at 2109 Mountain Industrial Boulevard in Tucker, also announced that Doug Root has been promoted to Chief Executive Officer effective Dec. 1, 2012. Root was formerly the company's Director of Sales & Marketing, and was instrumental in transitioning ALB from a light bulb replacement business to a lighting solutions company.
Wednesday, December 12, 2012
The concert will benefit Hurricane Sandy victims, via the Robin Hood Foundation.
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Wednesday, December 12, 2012
Some of the biggest names in music take the stage at Madison Square Garden for the live 12-12-12 concert for Sandy relief. While thousands of people fill the arena, billions are watching live on a variety of screens worldwide. The concert is streaming live on television networks, movie theater screens and on the Internet, including right here on Tucker Patch. The pre-event coverage begins at 4 p.m. EST and the concert is scheduled to kick off at 7:30 p.m. The all-star lineup includes the Rolling Stones, Bon Jovi, Eric Clapton, Dave Grohl, Billy Joel, Alicia Keys, Chris Martin, Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band, Eddie Vedder, Roger Waters, Kanye West, The Who, and Paul McCartney, with other artists to be announced. Every penny sold …
Monday, December 10, 2012
Some of the biggest names in music will play at a benefit concert on Wednesday. All proceeds will go to Hurricane Sandy victims, via the Robin Hood Foundation.
Huge names in music are lending their talents to Hurricane Sandy relief efforts at the “12-12-12” concert on Wednesday, Dec. 12. Every penny sold from ticket sales will go directly to Sandy victims through the Robin Hood Relief Fund, which provides material, money and aid to local organizations that are serving families and individuals in the regions hardest hit by the storm, including over 200 Patch towns in New Jersey, Connecticut and Long Island. The all-star lineup includes Bon Jovi, Eric Clapton, Dave Grohl, Billy Joel, Alicia Keys, Chris Martin, Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band, Eddie Vedder, Roger Waters, Kanye West, The Who and Paul McCartney, with other artists to be announced. See how a bunch of volunteers in Tucker got …
Thursday, November 15, 2012
Patch will make a $1 donation to AmeriCares for every tweet with the hashtag #PatchRebuilds.
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Thursday, November 15, 2012
You can help rebuild communities that were hit by Hurricane Sandy by donating cans of food, volunteering for cleanup efforts - or simply sending a tweet. Patch is excited to announce our new effort to help support devestated communities after the storm. For every tweet sent with the hashtag #PatchRebuilds, we will donate $1 to the AmeriCares Hurricane Sandy Disaster Relief Fund, up to $125,000. Your contribution will go toward medical and humanitarian aid, grants and programs to help Sandy survivors. You can simply tweet the hashtag #PatchRebuilds, or go to our Patch Rebuilds website, rebuilds.patch.com/tucker, and tweet directly from the site. A customized tweet that starts “My heart belongs to…” is created from the Patch Rebuilds website…
Tuesday, November 6, 2012
Employees help out, and you can, too.
It's been said it's far better to have a neighbor who's near, than a brother who's far away, but in the wake of Hurricane Sandy, Americans across the nation have proven to be the best neighbors and the strongest of families. This past weekend, AOL and Patch employees took an opportunity to pitch in, packing two tractor trailers worth of food, water and supplies in Dulles, VA, and Baltimore. The donations went to Hurricane Sandy ravaged areas in New Jersey and Long Island. Want to join the relief efforts? Click here to donate. "When a catastrophe of this size hits, we all feel it, both the hundreds of us who live in the impacted towns, and our colleagues who are watching and wishing they could help more. So for us AOLers and Patchers, it …
Monday, November 5, 2012
Locals gather to send food, generators, and chainsaws to New Jersey.
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Monday, November 5, 2012
In an urgent push to help victims of Hurricane Sandy, more than 100 people worked Thursday night at a storehouse of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Tucker to fill humanitarian relief boxes headed to frontline responders in New Jersey. Volunteers, a group that included local teenagers, teachers and members of the Church, worked quickly to fill more than 1200 boxes of food. This, in addition to an earlier shipment Thursday morning, filled with food, generators, and chainsaws headed for Emerson, New Jersey, is just part of a large effort on behalf of the Church to bring aid to the region hit so hard by Hurricane Sandy. The Tucker location is one of 129 church-owned storehouses in and out of the United States that is used to…
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Friday, November 2, 2012
Customers can round up purchases to the nearest dollar; the difference benefits the American Red Cross' disaster relief efforts.
Kroger stores throughout the Atlanta Division are encouraging customers and associates to donate to the American Red Cross, which is providing shelter, meals, emotional support and other necessities to those affected by the deadly aftermath of Hurricane Sandy after it made landfall on Monday. In support of the thousands of Americans affected by Hurricane Sandy, Kroger is launching a “Round-Up” campaign today in which customers can round up their purchases to the nearest dollar – the difference benefiting the American Red Cross and its disaster relief efforts in the Northeast. Customers can also make donations to the American Red Cross at Kroger cash registers. “Our hearts are with our friends and neighbors in New York, New Jersey, and …
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Tuesday, October 30, 2012
Many of us have family and friends in the path of this massive storm. Here are some tips for how to cope from afar.
Hurricane Sandy’s reach is beyond the northeast. Locally, it has many worried about their loved ones in the violent storm’s path. Between phone calls to family or friends bracing themselves for Sandy and 24-hour news updates on its potential severity, stress builds. Here are tips on managing hurricane distress from the American Psychological Association: If you have loved ones in the Mid-Atlantic or Northeast, odds are, there's a Patch site in their town that can give you local upates on the conditions there. Go to the Patch homepage and click on a state to find a list of our local websites.
Kevin Madigan
10:24 pm on Monday, December 10, 2012
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