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It was the week ending in the
day of atonement of my sins
at the powerful Yom Kippur
services and it was also a week
during which I celebrated at the
One Brooklyn gala in Brooklyn,
and then on Thursday the celebration
in Patchogue of our new
Long Island Press Suffolk edition.
In addition, I was also privileged
to spend time with an extraordinary
woman who is saving from
certain death the wild horses who
roam our western states.
The brilliant, caring
Borough President of
Brooklyn Adams
brought eyes as spoke
before hundred
people desperately poor
upbringing, being one
of six siblings with a
loving single mom.
They were so poor he had to
put cardboard in his shoes when
the soles wore out. Food was so
scarce that neighbors brought
them food, sometimes half full
cereal boxes or half a bag of
flour, and slipped envelopes of
dollars under his door to help.
He never forgot the acts of
kindness. Now he's in the position
to help others in need and
the 501c3 organization he created
gives him funds to do it.
It was a joyous night of meeting
new friends, too. I was so
impressed with the
pleas of Pastor Gil
Monrose who has
a congregation in
Brooklyn and also
works with the
BP. He shared
with me the desperate
needs of
the people in the
Caribbean who
were hit by two
deadly hurricanes.
The islands that
depend mostly
on tourism
and agricultural
products
were
decimated.
He organized
a hurricane
relief
c o l l e c -
tion drive
to bring to
those in need
basic items
from mosquito
spray to batteries
to flashlights
to personal
hygiene products,
and he has containers
to bring the items to the
Virgin Islands. They will
be distributed through the
Virgin Islands’ clergy who
have taken on the mission
to restore, rebound and
rebuild the islands.
We are collecting items at
our offices in brooklyn at 9733
Fourth Avenue and in Queens at
38-15 Bell Boulevard. Give what
you can! This will be a long and
painful recovery for the people
who made many of our lives
better when we visited their precious
beautiful Islands.
Another person saving lives
is the stunning, elegant Manda
Kalimian. She has devoted the
last decade to saving wild horses
whose grazing land is coveted
by land grabbers. There
is legislation being proposed
before Congress to corral these
wild horses and kill them to
free up their grazing land for
cattle herds and fracking and
drilling.
Manda has begun a campaign
to alert the public of the atrocity
and has personally gone to our
western states to "rewild " (save
the horses) and find homes for
them.
Last week, Congressmember
Tom Suozzi held a press conference
to raise the issue and offer
his support to defeat the legislation.
Manda has created the Cana
Foundation to raise awareness
and funds to save the horses. To
raise funds, she has created a
for-profit business, “Naturally
Considerate.” It was "inspired
by the powerful relationship
between Mother Earth and
her inhabitants.” She
explains that her products
offer “old world
medicinal practices
with nature’s purest
healing ingredients."
Manda is
reaching back
to her heritage.
Her mom
was the first to
bring all-natural
organic cosmetics
to the marketplace
in the 1960s.
Now, “Naturally
Considerate” is striving
to cultivate “an
awareness of the here and
now and our connection to
earth and ourselves."
"It's rewilding the mind,
body, heart and spirit."
Fortunately for me, her stables
are only minutes away
from my home so on Sunday
I brought my six-year-old
granddaughter Addy to visit
Manda and her horse “farm.”
Addy fell in love!
More to come on the rewilding
of horses and my body and
mind!
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Rev. Gilbert Monrose
Manda Kailmian at her horse “farm” with my granddaughter Addy
Colandrea New Corner family has been in business in Dyker Heights for over 81
years and was honored by Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams at his “One
Brooklyn” event.
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