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FEMA funeral
assistance
AFGE guidance available
New assistance will be provided
by FEMA thanks to the Coronavirus
Response and Relief Supplemental
Appropriations Act of 2021
and the American Rescue Plan Act
of 2021.
Under these laws FEMA will
provide financial assistance to affected
families for COVID-19-related
funeral expenses incurred after
January 20, 2020.
FEMA is working with stakeholder
groups to get their input
on ways to best provide this assistance,
and to enlist their help with
outreach to families and communities.
FEMA will begin to implement
COVID-19 funeral assistance in
April, at which time they will begin
accepting applications.
Additional guidance is being
finalized and will be released to
potential applicants and community
partners as soon as possible.
In the meantime, people who have
COVID-19 funeral expenses are encouraged
to keep and gather documentation.
As additional information becomes
available, we will be sure to
update AFGE members.
Reclaiming the
Sky Competition
Honors Sue Baer
The “Reclaiming the Sky Resiliency
Essay Competition”
has a singular purpose: to make
“Never Forget” an action statement.
The Covid 19 crisis is
different from 9/11, but the response
needed to recover is the
same – resiliency.
The Human Resiliency Institute
at Fordham University
is working with airports and
aviation organizations, flight
attendant and pilot groups and
schools to give today’s aviation
workers and students a chance
to tell how the stories of aviation
heroes on 9/11, profiled in
“Reclaiming the Sky: 9/11 and
the Men and Women Who Kept
America Flying,” by Tom Murphy,
can offer lessons in resiliency
to help them recover
from the Covid 19 crisis and its
devastating impact on aviation
and the lives of so many aviation
employees.
The project kicks off April
21 with a one-hour webinar offered
by the Northeast Chapter
of AAAE (American Association
of Airport Executives.)
All profits from “Reclaiming
the Sky” go to aviation
charities.
There will be three categories
of essay winners: Airports,
Airlines and Students,
with $1,000 awards in each category.
The top prize in the Airport
category will be named for the
late Susan Baer, who was the
General Manager of Newark
Liberty Int’l Airport on 9/11 and
whose story – along with her
EWR team’s story of courage – is
told in the book.
For full details and a video
describing the project, visit ReclaimingTheSky.
com.
People’s Alliance
Federal Credit Union
Cash Services Located in the JFK Airport
Building 14 West Wing • Room 4A
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Orpheus
and Apollo
sculpture
Will hang in
LGA Cenral
Hall
Governor Cuomo
announced an agreement
between Lincoln
Center for the
Performing Arts,
Inc. and the Port Authority
to relocate
the world-renowned
sculpture, Orpheus
and Apollo, to the
new LaGuardia Airport’s
Central Hall. It
is expected to also be
visible both day and
night from the Grand
Central Parkway and
from the approach
ramps to the airport.
Lincoln Center
for the Performing
Arts’ Philharmonic
Hall has felt empty
since 2014, when Orpheus
and Apollo,
the shimmering and
abstracted construction
that has hung
from the ceiling of
the “grande promenade”
since the
hall was opened in
1962, was removed
for “restoration” and
never returned.
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