By Lanny Howe:
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The following piece was written by a neighbor, Herbert Geller, one of our snowbirds, on reading and hearing about the CV Fund project:
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I am very impressed with what I have heard about the Century Village Fund (CV Fund) designed to help provide food, money and other assistance to poorer residents of Century Village. What can be more timely than this program with our country facing a severe Recession and maybe another Great Depression?
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Who knows how many elderly people here and and all over the country lost some or even all of their life savings in the financial calamities that are occurring in the United States and in many parts of the world? I hope no one here invested with Bernie Madoff or the other crooks who are coming out of the woodwork. Who knows how many of our neighbors need the help that the CV Fund is trying to provide? I have heard that there are a number of elderly and infirm people in Century Village who find it very difficult to support themselves and have no relatives who can help them. These are the people who can benefit from the CV Fund.
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I remember similar hard times during the Great Depression and what we did in those days to help our neighbors. I was just a little kid then but my family who had been prosperous in the 1920s was broke for 10 years until the 1940s when my father made a great comeback. I learned a lot of lessons then which I still remember. First you have to help your neighbor and maybe your neighbor can even help you. And I think that is what they hope to do with the CV Fund. Help people who need help.
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I can tell you some stories about that time long ago which illustrate the need for neighbor to neighbor cooperation which the founders of the CV Fund are advocating today.. My wife told me how her mother made corn muffins and corn bread for her neighbors by buying a 50 pound bag of surplus cornmeal at a Farmers Market. Some friends contributed eggs, milk and cooking oil and my wife and her sister made enough corn muffins for everyone they knew. My parents took in a homeless man in 1932 who my father's cousin met in the Subway. That's what people did in the Great Depression. We felt we were all involved in economic hard times and we were obligated to help our friends and neighbors.
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The CV Fund I have heard is setting up what seems to be a good program to provide the same kind of real help for neighbors today who are suffering economic hardship. This would include a Food Bank where people in need could get food at little or no cost. There are also other plans to provide some financial assistance and free handyman work for residents who need it. Volunteers and donations are needed to undertake this worthy program. I never met her but I would also like to commend Jean Dowling for setting up this great project. My wife and I are just "snowbirds" who fly down here with the cold winds in the winter and return home with the warm winds in the spring but we certainly will do what we can to help this worthy project..
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HERBERT AND GLORIA GELLER 329 SHEFFIELD N 429-3182
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I am very impressed with what I have heard about the Century Village Fund (CV Fund) designed to help provide food, money and other assistance to poorer residents of Century Village. What can be more timely than this program with our country facing a severe Recession and maybe another Great Depression?
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Who knows how many elderly people here and and all over the country lost some or even all of their life savings in the financial calamities that are occurring in the United States and in many parts of the world? I hope no one here invested with Bernie Madoff or the other crooks who are coming out of the woodwork. Who knows how many of our neighbors need the help that the CV Fund is trying to provide? I have heard that there are a number of elderly and infirm people in Century Village who find it very difficult to support themselves and have no relatives who can help them. These are the people who can benefit from the CV Fund.
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I remember similar hard times during the Great Depression and what we did in those days to help our neighbors. I was just a little kid then but my family who had been prosperous in the 1920s was broke for 10 years until the 1940s when my father made a great comeback. I learned a lot of lessons then which I still remember. First you have to help your neighbor and maybe your neighbor can even help you. And I think that is what they hope to do with the CV Fund. Help people who need help.
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I can tell you some stories about that time long ago which illustrate the need for neighbor to neighbor cooperation which the founders of the CV Fund are advocating today.. My wife told me how her mother made corn muffins and corn bread for her neighbors by buying a 50 pound bag of surplus cornmeal at a Farmers Market. Some friends contributed eggs, milk and cooking oil and my wife and her sister made enough corn muffins for everyone they knew. My parents took in a homeless man in 1932 who my father's cousin met in the Subway. That's what people did in the Great Depression. We felt we were all involved in economic hard times and we were obligated to help our friends and neighbors.
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The CV Fund I have heard is setting up what seems to be a good program to provide the same kind of real help for neighbors today who are suffering economic hardship. This would include a Food Bank where people in need could get food at little or no cost. There are also other plans to provide some financial assistance and free handyman work for residents who need it. Volunteers and donations are needed to undertake this worthy program. I never met her but I would also like to commend Jean Dowling for setting up this great project. My wife and I are just "snowbirds" who fly down here with the cold winds in the winter and return home with the warm winds in the spring but we certainly will do what we can to help this worthy project..
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HERBERT AND GLORIA GELLER 329 SHEFFIELD N 429-3182
