tp51.xml
Title
tp51.xml
Source
born-digital
Media Type
story
Date Entered
2003-02-24
TomPaine Story: Story
"Kosher Cajun food and the spirit of America"
Kosher Cajun food was served at a luncheon in Assembly Speaker
Sheldon Silver's Manhattan legislative office, a few blocks north of Ground Zero, as two unlikely groups came together to celebrate the donation of an ambulance to replace one lost on September 11th.
There was no media coverage, major or otherwise, as members of a
Southwest Louisiana Electric Co-op traveled up to New York City in early
June to present a brand new ambulance to the Hatzalah Ambulance Corps of Lower Manhattan, whose volunteers were among the first to respond after the first plane struck the World Trade Center.
The members of the Southwst Louisiana Electric Memership
Corporation (SLEMCO), a rural electric co-op in the heart of Louisiana's
predominately Catholic bayou country came together with the Orthodox Jewish volunteers of Hatzalah Volunteer Ambulance Corps in the spirit of united Americans, with one group helping the other to continue to still help others.
Allen Thurgood, a lifelong New Yorker and leading figure in the
cooperative housing movement, played ""matchmaker"" in bringing the two groups together. The founder and chief executive officer of 1st Rochdale Cooperative, an electric co-op based in Manhattan, Thurgood was overwhelmed, but not surprised by the generous efforts of the nation's electric cooperatives which contributed some $3 million to a wide range of recovery initiatives in New York City in the wake of 9/11.
It was an emotional side as Harold Jacobs, the president of Hatzalah,
wheeled up to Ground Zero in the new ambulance, with J.U. Gajan, the chief executive officer and general manager of SLEMCO, in the front seat by Jacobs' side.
For Jacobs, it was his first return to the site since September 11th,
while Gajan was there for the first time, but the two men shared a new hope for the future.
Kosher Cajun food was served at a luncheon in Assembly Speaker
Sheldon Silver's Manhattan legislative office, a few blocks north of Ground Zero, as two unlikely groups came together to celebrate the donation of an ambulance to replace one lost on September 11th.
There was no media coverage, major or otherwise, as members of a
Southwest Louisiana Electric Co-op traveled up to New York City in early
June to present a brand new ambulance to the Hatzalah Ambulance Corps of Lower Manhattan, whose volunteers were among the first to respond after the first plane struck the World Trade Center.
The members of the Southwst Louisiana Electric Memership
Corporation (SLEMCO), a rural electric co-op in the heart of Louisiana's
predominately Catholic bayou country came together with the Orthodox Jewish volunteers of Hatzalah Volunteer Ambulance Corps in the spirit of united Americans, with one group helping the other to continue to still help others.
Allen Thurgood, a lifelong New Yorker and leading figure in the
cooperative housing movement, played ""matchmaker"" in bringing the two groups together. The founder and chief executive officer of 1st Rochdale Cooperative, an electric co-op based in Manhattan, Thurgood was overwhelmed, but not surprised by the generous efforts of the nation's electric cooperatives which contributed some $3 million to a wide range of recovery initiatives in New York City in the wake of 9/11.
It was an emotional side as Harold Jacobs, the president of Hatzalah,
wheeled up to Ground Zero in the new ambulance, with J.U. Gajan, the chief executive officer and general manager of SLEMCO, in the front seat by Jacobs' side.
For Jacobs, it was his first return to the site since September 11th,
while Gajan was there for the first time, but the two men shared a new hope for the future.
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Citation
“tp51.xml,” September 11 Digital Archive, accessed May 3, 2024, https://911digitalarchive.org/items/show/798.