La Grange Highlands’ Jack Kielczynski has less than a week to fill his truck in order to reach Staten Island by Thanksgiving, and the community is answering his call.
La Grange Highlands’ Jack Kielczynski has less than a week to fill his truck in order to reach Staten Island by Thanksgiving, and the community is answering his call.
Staten Island, one of the areas hardest-hit by the devastating and lingering effects of Hurricane Sandy, is more than 700 miles from La Grange—but Jack Kielczynski is hoping to bridge that distance with the help of a truckful of relief supplies. Kielczynski, a Navy veteran, retired police officer and 26-year La Grange Highlands resident, plans to fill a rented 16-foot Penske truck with the sort of stuff Sandy’s victims desperately need and personally deliver it to New York. He’ll leave on Monday in order to reach Staten Island by Thanksgiving, and fly home later. “I just couldn’t imagine what it would be like to have my entire life just washed away in 20 minutes,” Kielczynski said. “Every time I watched the news it got a little worse… I …
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marti Comstock
2:27 pm on Thursday, November 15, 2012
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