Local residents are doing what they can to help the victims of Hurricane Harvey.
Randy Reamer is a truck driver with West Central Equipment and a Buffalo Township volunteer firefighter.
“There’s a group of five of us going down,” Reamer said. “It’s just Americans helping Americans. I felt the need that I had to help someone.”
Reamer’s group plans to head out on Friday, Sept. 8 to help with rescue efforts. Anyone interested in making a monetary donation in support of his trip is asked to stop by West Central Equipment on Pittsburgh Road in Butler Township.
Connoquenessing business owner Buddy Hindman of Hindman Trucking will hold a collection of items this weekend, fill up one of his tractor trailers, and travel to a small Texas town next week.
Natascha Cratty of Butler also decided to help lead efforts to help. Her group is filling up a tractor trailer with supplies. The truck is currently parked in the Regal Cinemas parking lot at Moraine Point Plaza in Butler.
“We are not affiliated with any kind of organization or business,” Cratty said. “We’re just everyday people thinking, ‘what can we do to pay if forward?’”
Collections:
-Monetary donations being accepted at West Central Equipment on Pittsburgh Road in Butler Township through Thursday, Sept. 7.
-Nonperishable food, cleaning supplies, clothing, water and diapers are being accepted at Hindman Trucking in Connoquenessing (next to the Butler Farm Show Grounds). The collection will continue Saturday, Sept. 2 from 9am to 1pm; Sunday, Sept. 3 from 1pm to 4pm; and Tuesday, Sept. 5 from 9am to 8pm.
-Cleaning gloves, diapers, batteries, toilet paper, soap, paper towels, blankets, laundry detergent, toothbrushes and toothpaste, bookbags and gently-used luggage, canned food, dry milk, baby wipes, feminine products, mattresses, clothes, bottles and cat/dog food being accepted at a tractor trailer parked at the Regal Cinemas movie theater at Moraine Point Plaza in Butler on Thursday, Aug. 31 from 12pm until 930pm and Friday, Sept. 1 from 730am to 930pm. No cash or gift cards accepted at this location.
