[HPFGU-OTChatter] A bright spot - thanks to Americans

[Wanda Mallett]

When we read and hear such uplifting stories, it helps
the pain go away after so many days of not knowing
who's alive, missing or dead. I'm sharing this with
all my email family and friends and especially my
husband and boys!! A big thank you from Revere,
Massachusetts!

Wanda and her 3 stooges, their humor is coming back!
 
--- katzefan at yahoo.com wrote:
> The following (which has been edited for space
> consideration) 
> appeared in a local Niagara paper Friday. Some 100
> children 
> from Southern Ontario, all with serious illnesses or
> physical 
> challenges, were left stranded in Orlando, Florida,
> after the 
> terrorist attacks in NYC and Washington DC closed
> Disneyworld 
> and also closed American airspace. However, despite
> all that 
> was going on in their own country, Orlando residents
> were not 
> about to let the kids sit there and be frightened,
> nor go
> home disappointed....
> 
> ***************************
> WELLAND
> 
> For the parents of a group of Niagara children, the
> word RELIEF 
> is spelled in big capital letters.
> They are the parents of 14 children between the ages
> of seven 
> and 19 who were stranded in Orlando, Florida, for
> three days in 
> the aftermath of Tuesday's terrorist attacks in New
> York City and 
> Washington, D.C. The children  finally arrived back
> home 
> Thursday afternoon.
> The 14 were part of a group of 95 children from all
> over Southern 
> Ontario, all with life-threatening illnesses or
> severe physical 
> challenges, who were sent on a one-day dream trip to
> Disney 
> World by Sunshine Dreams for  Kids of London, Ont.
> But the attacks also closed Disney World, and
> because all air 
> traffic in the U.S. was grounded, their Skycharter
> aircraft could not 
> take them back. They ended up in a hotel. Also part
> of the group 
> were 85 adults, including medical personnel,
> volunteers and 
> airplane crew.
> Nancy Kacur of Ridgeway let her son Nathan, 19, go
> on the trip.
> She was driving back from the Hamilton airport
> Tuesday 
> morning after dropping him off, "when I heard about
> it (the 
> attacks)."
> Like so many other people, "I didn't believe it was
> real,"
> she said Thursday afternoon. "This can't be
> happening,"
> she said she told herself. "Not today."
> At about noon the Sunshine foundation called her to
> say the 
> airplane had landed at  Orlando and the children
> were safe....
> The children were disappointed Disney World was
> closed in the 
> wake of  the terrorist attack, "but they had a great
> time
> anyway," said Bill Rockwood, executive director of
> Sunshine 
> Dreams for Kids.
> On Tuesday evening a group of Boy Scouts loaded with
> board 
> games came to their hotel. 
> And since the children couldn't go to Disney World,
> Disney World 
> came to them. Mickey, Minnie and many of the other
> characters 
> who inhabit the park ame to the hotel on Wednesday
> to entertain 
> them there, said Rockwood.
> McDonald's sent in a free lunch for everyone.
> Wal Mart donated clean underwear for anyone who
> wanted it, 
> and TJMax Estates, operators of the Winner's chain
> of
> clothing stores, donated $150 worth of clothes to
> everyone on 
> the airplane, said Rockwood.
> Parents are also grateful to the Sheriff's
> Department of Orange 
> County, where Orlando is located.
> "They were wonderful," said Mary Carew of Thorold,
> mother of 
> 15-year-old B.J. Carew. "They went to the hotel and
> took the kids 
> to local malls"  and other places.
> "The Americans took very good care of our kids," she
> said....
> The organization called parents again on Thursday to
> tell them 
> the airplane had received special medevac permission
> to return 
> to Canada and that  their children would be arriving
> at the 
> Hamilton airport at 6 p.m....
> 
> 
> 


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