Huntington – Supervisor Chad A. Lupinacci joined Cold Spring Harbor resident Harry Jones at YMCA Huntington
on March 22 to honor the student for his efforts in raising funds and donations of over 10,000 diapers for local families in need.
“Harry’s
generous and conscientious spirit should serve as an example to all our
young residents and we were thrilled to participate in this worthy
cause,”
said Supervisor Chad A. Lupinacci, who presented Mr. Jones with a pin of
the Town seal for his efforts in raising funds and donations of over
10,000 diapers for families in need.
Harry
Jones said, “I have been working with Save The Children for some time
now and wanted to be able to organize some kind of drive that would not
entail
just donating money. During the pandemic and trying to social distance, I
thought what could be easier than ordering diapers through Amazon and having them delivered to my house, and it just grew from there!”
“The
diaper drive idea came from a video that was posted online from the
Greater DC Diaper Bank,” said Carolyn Jones, Harry’s mother and a
supporter of
Save The Children United Kingdom since childhood. “We watched the video and found it so sad that
parents had to decide if they should pay the rent, buy food or put a
clean diaper on their babies /children. It was Lori Homer, the
President of Save The Children Long Island Council, that put the idea
out there to the ambassadors, Harry took it to another level.”
Harry
Jones, a Student Ambassador for Save The Children Long Island Council
and a student at Cold Spring Harbor High School, contacted Supervisor
Lupinacci’s
office and the Town of Huntington joined the effort, collecting
donations from employees at Huntington Town Hall.
Participants
in the diaper drive included Cold Spring Harbor School District, Cold
Spring Harbor Public Library, The Warriors Soccer Dads (CSH), St
Patrick's
Church, Huntington Public Library, Family Service League, YMCA
Huntington, New York Life Insurance Company, Melville, and generous
residents across the Huntington community.
The diapers will be distributed to families throughout Long Island through the Family Service League.
In
the photos: (1) Supervisor Chad A. Lupinacci joins Harry
Jones,
Student Ambassador for Save The Children Long Island, with Susie Futter
& Lori Homer, Save The Children Long Island; Carolyn Jones (Harry’s
mother and supporter of Save The Children United Kingdom
since childhood); Eileen Knauer, Senior Vice President
Operations at YMCA of Long Island and several YMCA staff; Joanna Adams,
Huntington Library Director; Jim Calero, Outreach Director at St
Patrick's Church; Lisa Jamison, Family Service League. (2) Participants
not pictured: Tim Jones, Harry's dad; members of
Tim's soccer team, The Warriors Soccer Dads in CSH; Frances Spatafora,
Supervisor Lupinacci’s Office, Huntington Town Hall; Dr. Jim Bolen,
Principal, Cold Spring Harbor High School; Mr. Homer, Teacher, CSH High
School; Suzette at CSH Library; John P. Curry,
Managing Partner, Brian Miller, Marketing Development Manager, and
agents at New York Life Insurance Company, Melville.
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