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Last Updated: 9/12/2005
2:37:00 PM
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Wednesday, September 07, 2005
Utica, Granville
to feel 'love'
By Shelby Sebens
svreporter@newstrib.com
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Michael Skowera cleans out a hole for a tree under the
watchful eye of his daughter, Susan, in front of the Skowera’s
new home near Granville on Tuesday. Skowera and volunteers
will plant several trees this weekend as part of the New York
Says Thank You efforts in Utica and
Granville.
NewsTribune photo/Kemp
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| A group from New York City and a small town in
California are paying forward the help they received in troubled
times.
“We didn’t
forget all the love and support. Here’s the love back,” said Jeff
Parness, who started the New York Says Thank You
Foundation.
Thirty New Yorkers, including 16
firefighters, will travel to Utica and Granville this weekend to
help plant 418 trees dedicated to the fallen first responders of the
Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks, Parness’ friend and the nine victims
of the April 20, 2004, Utica and Granville
tornado.
Parness, a New York venture
capitalist who lost a business partner in the World Trade Center
attacks, said the purpose behind the NYSTY foundation is to recreate
the kindness New York received during that tragedy.
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