Led by adviser Andrea Carone, the Community Service Club at Robert Frost Middle School recently raised morale down south after the devastating events of the two hurricanes that affected the area.  The club wrote letters of encouragement and gratitude to any workers that might be contributing to the relief effort, which Carone dropped off at the Huntington Fire Department through their collection.

Kenny Edwards of KP Edwards Mason Supply in Bay Shore loaded the letters onto his truck to be delivered down south. The letters ended up in the hands of Jarrod Jarvis, the president of the Western North Carolina Air Museum, adjacent to the Hendersonville Airport. After distributing the letters to helicopter pilots who were delivering supplies to some of the most hard hit areas of North Carolina, Jarvis contacted Edwards to let him know that the letters provided support and encouragement to the pilots, reporting that some letters even brought the men to tears. Edwards, who was unaware where the letters had originated from, tracked down Carone at Robert Frost through the letters, as some of the students had signed them with “Deer Park, NY.” After contacting the school and locating Carone, Edwards had pictures of the letters framed and visited Robert Frost to deliver them to her.

“We wanted to frame the pictures and present them to you because it’s important to make sure the kids know they made a difference,” Edwards told Carone, who was surprised and touched by how far reaching the letters went, and how others were so deeply affected by them.  

Date Added: 11/13/2024