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PARROT PRESS December 2012 Vol. 20 No 12 METRO PHC NEWSLETTER NY – NJ – CT metrophc.com Mele Kalikimaka Hi METRO s! Mele Kalikimaka is the thing to say on a bright I hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving Hawaiian Christmas Day and our members and their families who were, That's the island greeting that we send to you from and still are, coping with the hardships and the land where palm trees sway challenges brought on by Sandy were able to enjoy the day indulging too much with happy Here we know that Christmas will be green and bright thoughts of better times ahead! Keep those fins up! Also hope the numbers on your scales are The sun to shine by day and all the stars at night getting smaller by now…no such luck here. Mele Kalikimaka is Hawaii's way to say "Merry Mele KaIikimaka is the thing to say Christmas to you". We have approximately 7-8 METRO couples or individuals who incurred extensive damage to their homes and/or cars as well as incurring significant loss of personal belongings. I forwarded a Paradise Charitable Foundation Disaster Relief Application to all those folks to be considered as candidates. As mentioned last month, a “PHiN Fund” was established by the great folks at PHIP. Bob Heffelfinger is the Director of this wonderful Foundation and he…they all…deserve a shout-out! In true PH-fashion, many METROs stepped up to the plate and offered their assistance, hospitality, volunteer efforts, and kindness within our own METRO phlock, their local and extended communities and did what they could to help with the numerous relief efforts. I’m sure everyone will agree that the generosity and immeasurable support we are seeing throughout all the areas that were affected is truly inspiring and heart-warming. (Continued…somewhere) MERRY CHRISTMAS! HAPPY HANUKKAH! HAPPY FESTIVUS! HAPPY NEW YEAR! 12 Days of Ho Ho Ho and a Bottle of Rhum Holiday Cheer Santa's stressed out as the holiday season draws & Good Will near He's been doing the same job now going on two thousand years He's got pains in his brain and chimney scars cover his buns There are many ways to spread good cheer and help others during the He hates to admit it, but Christmas is more work holidays….a few suggestions: than fun He needs a vacation from bad decorationsU and 1st Day – Donate toys to children in need. (Ed & Tara Kelly’s toy collection snow MERRY CHRISTMAS! HAPPY HANUKKAH! for Nana’s HouseHAPPY in Mastic NEW& Bosco YEAR! & Nancy’s Holiday Party toy Mr. Claus has escape plans, a secret that only he collection for St. Ignatius Human Services in Hicksville, LI are 2 options.) knows Beaches and palm trees appear night and day in 2nd Day – Visit the sick or elderly. (The latter would be any of your his dreams METRO Board members. Bring rum.) A break from his wife, his half frozen life The elves and that damn reindeer team. 3rd Day – Donate to animal shelters…pets without homes need love & care especially after Sandy. (Al & Marianne Straaik’s Wrapped With Love is always open for donations!) Ho ho ho and a bottle of rhum Santa's run off to the Caribbean 4th Day – Donate clothing, blankets, winter coats, etc. to homeless shelters He thinks about boat drinks and fun in the sun and coat drives. (We probably all have a few extra tee-shirts.) Ho ho ho and a bottle of rhum. 5th Day – Donate to your favorite online charity. (Alzheimer’s Plastic creations and crass exploitations aren't www.alz.org, Pancreatic Cancer Cure www.curepc.org, Red Cross good www.redcross.org, etc.) He wants to go back to simple toys made out of wood 6th Day – Take a gift tag (or more) from a Salvation Army tree and add an angel or 2 to your shopping list. Just for the weekend he'd like to be Peter Pan Get out his long johns and dance with a sword in 7th Day – Bake something…cookies work!…and bring them to your fellow the sand. Metros who are too busy recovering from Sandy to even think about holiday baking…together with your best smiles & hugs! Ho ho ho and a bottle of rhum Santa's run off to the Caribbean 8th Day – Call an old friend and/or a distant relative you don’t see Marimbas, calimbas, he's playing steel drums often…this also includes # 7 folks as above. (E-mails & texts are ok, but a Ho ho ho and a bottle of rhum. call is better ) Ho ho ho and a bottle of rhum 9th Day – Gather kids’ letters to Santa and drop them in the Macy’s Santa Mailbox. They donate $1 to Make-A-Wish for every letter received. Santa's run off to the Caribbean A week in the tropics and he'll be all right 10th Day – Perform as many random acts of kindness as you can every Sporting a tan as he rides out of sight day…even if it is just buying a round! (Where we meeting??) Merry Christmas to all and to all a good night. 11th Day – Donate food to a food bank such as Island Harvest, Long (Jimmy Buffett/Ross Kunkel/Roger Guth/ Island’s largest hunger relief organization: www.islandharvest.org. Peter Mayer) 12th Day – Send a Christmas card to a soldier overseas (Sponsored by the Red Cross: Holiday Mail for Heroes, PO Box 5456, Capitol Heights, MD 20791-5456) ****************************************** Every Day – Keep in mind our METROs who are going through a hard time post-Sandy. Dinner invites, meet-ups for a hot toddy, errand-running, bringing in a pizza, etc. would all be much appreciated I’m sure! Some lost Christmas & holiday decorations due to basement flooding. Sounds like this calls for a few new tree-trop decorations . MERRY CHRISTMAS! HAPPY HANUKKAH! HAPPY FESTIVUS! HAPPY NEW YEAR! MY CHRISTMAS! HAPPY HANUKKAH! HAPPY F Happy December Birthdays!! Sandra Batorsky 1 Margaritaville Jennifer Mintzer 1 A Pirate Looks at 40 Lawrence Comella 2 Surfing in a Hurricane Jose Guevara 3 Margaritaville Bob Scalia 3 Bob Robert’s Society Band Terry Muldoon 6 All of Them Victoria Riess 6 Tin Cup Chalice Larry Sullivan 11 Off To See the Lizard John Everett 14 Growing Older But Not Up Toy Collection Info – Part I Maureen Farrell 15 Hey Good Lookin’ Art Markart 15 Gypsies in the Palace METROs Ed & Tara Kelly have been Brad Bute 17 Volcano collecting new, unwrapped toys for families Carol Pohorylo 17 Scarlet Begonias in the Mastic area who were affected by Andrea Beatty 18 Southern Cross Sandy. They are almost at their goal of 200 Jackie Pineiro 18 Desperation Samba toys! Great job guys! Please contact Ed via the METRO PHC FB page, Ed’s FB page, or Saralyn Bute 22 He Went To Paris me and Ed will make arrangements to pick up Jimmy Buffett 25 ♫ ♪ ♫ ♪ ♫ ♪ ♫ ♪ ♫ ♪ any toy donation. Richard Gibbs 26 Changes in Latitude Jeff Leslie 26 One Particular Harbor ************************************* Ed Travers 29 A Pirate Looks At 40 Toy Collection Info – Part II Bosco & Nancy’s Holiday Party With A Purpose - Toys For Kids (See flyer in this PP) From Lorraine Rosen: For the last 2 years the toys collected at Bosco & Nancy’s Holiday Party have been given to St. Ignatius Human Services in Hicksville. They serve about 1,000 underprivileged families and the toys are distributed at a party in January -- along with toys that are donated by the Kiwanis Club. MERRY CHRISTMAS! HAPPY HANUKKAH! HAPPY FESTIVUS! HAPPY NEW YEAR! REMINDER! December 15th – Running of the Santas Phlocking event in NYC Linda Masten has coordinated the day’s events for us. Meet-up will be early in the a.m. on 12/15 at Penn Station. Time and place of the Santa Run has not been announced yet by the organizers. Come in your Santa suit (if you don’t have one maybe Mitch can order one for you. Just be sure to tell him this item is color-specific), Mrs. Claus, elves, trees, etc. -- use your imagination! After the “Santa Run” we will be crawling to Bryant Park for the Holiday Shops, ice skating for the more adventurous, and of course Celsius for hot chocolate. Or whatever. There will also be a few METRO Santas running in Philly on the same day. Have fun!! Don’t do anything we wouldn’t do! www.santacon.info Beware of this Santa! MERRY CHRISTMAS! HAPPY HANUKKAH! HAPPY FESTIVUS! HAPPY NEW YEAR! MERRY CHRISTMAS! HAPPY HANUKKAH! HAPPY FESTIVUS! HAPPY NEW YEAR! MERRY CHRISTMAS! HAPPY HANUKKAH! HAPPY FESTIVUS! HAPPY NEW YEAR! Metro North Happy Hour Takes place on the 2nd Tuesday of each month (with the exception of summer months) at 6:30 p.m. @ East Side Café in Norwalk, CT. Contact Carol Pohorylo at [email protected] to reserve table space. FROM MARIANNE & AL STRAAIK WRAPPED WITH LOVE What can we possibly say? Once again our Metro Club has raised the bar and rose to the occasion. Although all were affected by Sandy (that bitch, that slut, that whore - oh no that was Lucille :-)), some sadly more than others....they thought of our furry friends who were also ravaged by life and Sandy. Al & I wasted no time and put some money toward much needed supplies to get the shelters back and operational Sunday. Most animals are currently in Foster Homes until the shelters can pass inspection and have them return. We also have become acquainted with an organization called Almost Home Rescue which supplies dogs that are chained and live outside with food and shelter.