Wednesday, June 24, 2009
Chow For Your Stomach's Consideration: A Public Service Announcement
Posted by Bethany Jean Clement on Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 2:02 PM
Wednesday, June 24th 2009: Northwest area restaurants will rally to raise funds for the victims of the L'Aquila earthquake. This tragic earthquake hit 6.3 on the Richter scale and devastated the central Italian region of Abruzzo on April 6th 2009 @ 3:25AM, taking close to 300 lives, hospitalizing over 25,000 and displacing more than 60,000. The L'Aquila earthquake is the deadliest earthquake to occur in Italy since 1984. On June 24, restaurants participating in the "Big Night for Abruzzo" will donate a portion of their sales to the victims of the L'Aquila earthquake. Proceeds will be given directly to: Polisportiva Paganica Rugby and used to help rebuild the sports and recreation facility lost in the devastated town of Paganica, the epicenter of the earthquake. Currently, hundreds of displaced youth in Paganica and neighboring communities have no organized sports or facilities because of the destruction resulting from the earthquake.
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Ummm not to be a negative nancy, but WTF. We still need money for Katrina. I know that the south is not all fancy and European, but there are fucking Americans there still struggling.
I get that we need to help people in other countries, but christ that money could have way better uses here.
I get that we need to help people in other countries, but christ that money could have way better uses here.
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I'm with 2, and also: a recreation center? They don't need housing or medical services or anything?
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ok, so now i'm saying #1 is the Pride Brunch, #2 is Katrina, and way down at #3 is helping out other countries.
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The above comments seem a little rugged...if someone needs help, they need help. If you want to help the most needy, how about Darfur or Myanmar first? If you're saying help your people first (#1 implies help Americans first, which is cool too), then this makes sense for Italian restaurants mostly owned by Italians or Italian Americans.
As an Italian American, it's pasta night at Salvatore's for me and family. Buon appetito e buona fortuna a tutti!
As an Italian American, it's pasta night at Salvatore's for me and family. Buon appetito e buona fortuna a tutti!
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