WEST ISLIP REMEMBERS receives a generous donation of $10,000 from the New York State Fraternal Order of Police. From left: WEST ISLIP REMEMBERS members Andrew Hamm, John Popovitch, Wayne Smith, Jim Christensen, Patricia Rosen, President Eliot F. Bloom, New York State Fraternal Order of Police President Frank Ferrera, and Executive Vice President Charles Caputo.

Representatives of WEST ISLIP REMEMBERS, a not-for-profit organization which has received and distributed over $50,000 to West Islip families that lost loved ones on September 11, 2001, gratefully accepted a generous donation of $10,000 from the New York State Fraternal Order of Police at a meeting of the West Islip Independent Club on November 25, 2002. WEST ISLIP REMEMBERS President Eliot Bloom, in accepting the donation from Fraternal Order of Police President Frank Ferrera, stated “our organization is extremely grateful to receive this generous gift, which will allow us to continue to help local families who have experienced the tragedy of September 11, and will help us create a lasting memorial to the memory of those who were lost.” Also on hand to thank the Fraternal Order of Police was Mrs. Patricia Rosen, who lost her husband on 9/11, and who has acted as an advisor and as a liaison between WEST ISLIP REMEMBERS and some of the local families.