Photos From Ocean State Transit's NYC Relief Run

Three school buses from EG – filled to brimming with such necessities as batteries, blankets and coats – drove to Queens, N.Y., last Saturday.

Here are the pictures.... (thanks, John!).

EG Buses, Filled To Brim, Take Off For Hard Hit Queens

Less than a week after the decision to make a bus run down to New York City with supplies, three buses were packed and ready to roll.

Michele Shull had hoped to fill one bus with supplies like blankets, warm clothing, and batteries, to take down to New York City for those most affected by Hurricane Sandy. But enthusiasm and people's keen desire to help quickly overtook that now seemingly modest idea.  On Saturday morning, three Ocean State Transit buses packed full set off from the East Greenwich bus yard on South County Trail. Last weekend, Shull got it going by talking to EG's bus yard manager, Deb Murphy, who got the other five OST bus yards involved. OST provides school buses for South Kingstown, Middletown, East Providence, Chariho, and Exeter in addition to East Greenwich. All of them helped with donations.  EG school families heard about the plan and donated. …

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EG Bus Drivers Organize Sandy Recovery Trip

The buses will leave early Saturday for stops in Queens and New Jersey; donations are being accepted at three sites in EG.

According to John Wolcott, it was Ocean State Transit bus driver Michele Shull who spurred the decision to organize a school bus caravan with blankets, batteries, coats and food to New York City and coastal New Jersey on Saturday. "I want to help," Shull said to Wolcott and others at the East Greenwich OST bus yard on South County Trail.  For Wolcott, a new OST driver but a longtime EG Rotarian, that was a green light.  "You tell a Rotarian you want to do something and you unleash a tiger," said Wolcott.  Or rather, some yellow buses. That's the plan on Saturday, when several school buses loaded with supplies for those who have been hardest hit by Hurricane Sandy, will head out from Rhode Island. Deb Murphy, yard manager for OST in East …

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Elizabeth McNamara

1:46 pm on Thursday, November 8, 2012

Hi all. Here's what John said: "If people want to send money, they can write a (tax-deductible) check to "East Greenwich Rotary Charitable Fund" and send it to EG Rotary, PO Box 222, E.G., RI 02818. If we receive it after the buses leave, we will forward it to the Salvation Army coordinator in New York to purchase food vouchers for neighbors as he sees fit."   more ›