[Dixielandjazz] FW: I need your help

[Ron L'Herault]

This message was sent to me by Steve Caddick, a great local banjoist and
friend.  He knows Fr. Bill personally and is preparing to bring canned good
down to NY for him.  Perhaps others on the list might be willing to help.
Read on.

Ron L
-----Original Message-----
From: Stephen Caddick [mailto:banjopa1 at yahoo.com] 
Sent: Monday, January 07, 2008 8:55 PM
To: Stephen Caddick
Subject: I need your help


Fr. Bill wrote the e-mail below my missive.
Father Bill is a friend of mine who also plays the
banjo. He comes to my Spring Fling every year and has
been gracious enugh to do a mass for us each year. As
you can read in the story and his e-mail to our online
banjo discussion group, he lost a lot on New Years eve
in the fire that destroyed his outreach center and the
rectory where he lives.

My Co-host for the Spring Fling, Paul Poirier and
myself are going to help by bringing him a truck load
of canned food for his pantry. This is where you can
help, we need to buy some food and we need a bit of
money to do that. Send it to me and you will have my
gratitude. We plan on buying the food in the next
couple of weeks and taking a ride to Long Island to
deliver it in person. I have e-mailed Fr. Bill to ask
what his needs are and am awaiting his reply.
If you care to help, please send your donation to me
ASAP
Steve Caddick
59 Woodward Ave.
Seekonk, MA 02771
Or send a donation to the address in Fr. Bill's
e-mail.
thank you very much for your help.
Steve
p.s/ Father Bill's e-mail is under this one

--- Bill Brisotti <olmmbill at optonline.net> wrote:

> To: fourstringbanjo at yahoogroups.com
> From: Bill Brisotti <olmmbill at optonline.net>
> Date: Sat, 05 Jan 2008 14:25:06 -0500
> Subject: Re: [fourstringbanjo] Fr. Bill Brisotti
> 
> Thank you, John, for putting info about our fire up
> on the blog.
> To clarify it a bit, the fire destroyed the entire
> facility of our Outreach, which included a food
> pantry and a clothing distribution room and is
> depended on by hundreds of families and individuals
> in our community of Wyandanch, among the most
> economically challenged of Long Island. We recently
> distributed complete Christmas dinners to more than
> 500 local families and had re-stocked the food
> pantry shelves for the new year.
> We're making plans to set up temporary trailers in
> the parking lot to resume operations of accepting
> donations of food and clothing and making it all
> available to the needy folks as soon as possible. 
> Also the rectory, my home and the meeting place of
> our parish, was heavily damaged and will probably
> have to be demolished.
> Fortunately, the firefighters succeeded in
> preventing the fire from destroying the church
> building, which is joined to the rectory. There is
> some fire damage to part of the roof and extensive
> smoke and water damage to the interior. 
> I'm currently living in the home of a family in the
> parish.
> Also, very fortunately, most of my musical
> instruments survived (including my grandfather's
> 1917 Gibson A-4 mandolin, given to me when he died
> in 1964). The cases were all ruined. They all gave
> their lives to save the instrument within. All
> instrument stored in their cases survived, those
> left outside their cases were suffered much more
> damage.
> We'll be getting insurance money to cover some of
> the rebuilding, but we'll be needing other resources
> to supplement especially the costs of the new
> outreach building which we hope will better equip us
> to serve the urgent human needs of some very hurting
> people. Donations can be sent to: Our Lady of the
> Miraculous Medal Church, 1434 Straight Path,
> Wyandanch, NY 11798-3909.
> Again, thank you and all the fourstringbanjo
> community worldwide.
> Peace.
> Bill Brisotti
> 
> 
>   ----- Original Message ----- 
>   From: john at jazzbanjo.com 
>   To: fourstringbanjo at yahoogroups.com 
>   Sent: Friday, January 04, 2008 6:34 PM
>   Subject: [fourstringbanjo] Fr. Bill Brisotti
> 
> 
>   Some of you may know of Fr. Bill Brisotti. He is
> fellow banjoist and his
>   church was distroyed by a fire on New Year's Eve.
> He lost most of his
>   personal items but some of his instruments were
> saved. You can read
>   about the story on the Jazz Banjo Blog.
> 
>   http://www.jazzbanjo.com/Blog/jbblog07-4.htm
> 
>   Donations are being accepted and perhaps the banjo community would 
> like
>   to help Bill out.
> 
>   John Mumfortd
>   www.jazzbanjo.com

thanks,
Steve
www.stevecaddick.com