The September 11th attack
How to help

Advertiser Staff

BLOOD DONORS

• Blood Bank of Hawai'i donors should call 845-9966 on O'ahu or 800-372-9966. Basic requirements: good health, 18 or older, at least 110 pounds, valid photo ID.

DONATIONS

• The state of New York has established a New York State World Trade Center Relief Fund to support the emergency response effort and victim assistance. Donations may be sent to New York State World Trade Center Relief Fund, P.O. Box 5028, Albany, NY 12205, or call (800) 801-8092.

• Checks may be sent to the American Red Cross, 4155 Diamond Head Road, Honolulu, HI 96816. Checks should be made payable to American Red Cross Disaster Relief Fund. Call 739-8105, go to www.redcross.org or call toll-free: (800) HELP-NOW (800-435-7669).

• Ala Moana Center and Pearlridge Center are serving as donation sites for the American Red Cross Disaster Relief Fund. Pearlridge will accept donations through Oct. 3.

• The Hawai'i Community Foundation, with Aloha United Way and community and financial institutions, has established a September 11th Fund to support victims. Donations can be made through American Savings Bank, Bank of Hawaii, Bank of the Orient, Central Pacific Bank, City Bank, Finance Factors, First Hawaiian Bank, Hawai'i National Bank, HomeStreet Bank, Honolulu City and County Employees Federal Credit Union and Territorial Savings. Donations also can be made at Foodland or Sack N Save stores statewide, and a portion will be matched as part of the stores' Give Aloha program through Sept. 30. Donations can be mailed to The September 11th Fund, c/o Hawai'i Community Foundation, Pioneer Plaza, 900 Fort Street Mall, Suite 1300, Honolulu, HI 96813, or made online at www.hcf-hawaii.org.

• To contribute to the New York Fire Fighters 9-11 Disaster Relief Fund, drop off checks at any O'ahu fire station between 9 a.m. and 8 p.m. when the company is in quarters. Mail checks to the Hawai'i Fire Fighters Association, Local 1463 IAFF, AFL-CIO, 2305 S. Beretania St., Room 202, Honolulu, HI 96826.

• Donations can be sent to The Salvation Army, P.O. Box 620, Honolulu, HI 96809, or visit the Web site: SalvationArmyHawaii.org.

• A fund has been established by the Outdoor Circle for local environmentalist Christine Snyder, killed on United Flight 93. Snyder was the Outdoor Circle's certified arborist and project manager of landscape and planting. Contributions can be made to the Christine Snyder Tree Education Fund by calling The Outdoor Circle at 593-0300.

• The family of Maile Hale, a 26-year-old 1993 Kaiser High School graduate who has been missing since attending a Sept. 11 conference at the World Trade Center, has set up a scholarship fund in her honor. The scholarship will go toward the Williams College/Mystic Seaport maritime studies program that Hale attended while she was at Wesleyan University (Conn.), from which she graduated in 1997. Contributions can be sent to the endowment fund named for Benjamin Labaree, the professor who founded the semester-at-sea program, at: The Labaree Scholarship Endowment Fund, c/o Williams-Mystic, P.O. Box 6000, Mystic, CT 06355. The Rotary Club of Honolulu also is accepting donations in Hale's honor for the Children's Justice Center, which aids victims of child abuse. Checks can be made out to the Rotary Club of Honolulu, 2259 Kalakaua Ave., Honolulu, HI 96816, with "donation for Maile Hale" written in the memo portion.

• Dine for America will hold benefit dinners in restaurants nationwide, including Honolulu, on Oct. 11. Proceeds go to the American Red Cross Disaster Relief Fund. Call Elissa Josephsohn, 732-7733.

• Outback Steak House at Pi'ilani Village Shopping Center in Kihei will sell a $5 chicken and beef plate lunch for drive-through pick-up from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday, with 100 percent of proceeds going to the Red Cross Disaster Relief Fund. The event will be repeated Oct. 14 at the Outback Steak House in Kahana.

• A&B Properties Inc. is sponsoring "Celebrate America" from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday at its Maui Mall in Kahului. Relief agencies will be taking monetary donations and high school bands will perform. Proceeds from a $1 hotdog-and-soda sale by Star Market and Maui Soda & Ice Works will be donated to the September 11 Relief Fund.

• The Hawai'i State Bar Association will donate half of the proceeds from its annual fund-raising dinner to the September 11th Fund; Nov. 20, Hilton Hawaiian Village, with silent auction and a preview of the Brothers Cazimero holiday show; tickets $100; public welcome. 537-1868.