O’SCANLON ASKS LOCAL RESIDENTS TO DONATE UNNEEDED FURNITURE

Non-profit to collect furniture for those affected by Sandy

Assemblyman Declan O’Scanlon today announced that a local non-profit, Love INC, has been awarded $50,000 in gift cards for furniture through the Robin Hood Foundation to help in the Bayshore area. Additionally, Love INC’s used furniture store “Furnished With Love” located in Long Branch will be having a sale of high quality used furniture on Saturday, March 2 and Sunday March 3 in the Highlands at Our Lady Perpetual Help Roman Catholic Church from 10 AM to 3PM.. The Assemblyman asked that local residents donate any furniture that is in good shape.

“This is another step in stabilizing this area that has suffered so much,” said O’Scanlon (Love INC’s chairman). “Now that families are being stabilized with reconstruction the next step is making them livable by meeting their very basic furniture needs. We all recall the masses of debris on the curbside of many homes with the devastation being particularly immense up and down the Bayshore area. Love INC has been in existence for 18 years helping families in Monmouth County and continues to make a mark where it’s needed the most.”

Carolyn Eyerman, the executive director also added “that in 2012 over $20,000 worth of free furniture was given to qualified and screened clients in Monmouth County.”

Brand new mattresses and box springs as well as new bunk beds are also available with free delivery to all Bayshore residents with purchases made on March 2nd and 3rd. Love INC’s role in the community is not only to provide furniture, but acts as a community clearinghouse for local area churches to help with a variety of needs from rent assistance, elder care, used cars for transportation, free haircuts and haul out services.

“I really hope that our neighbors fortunate enough to make it through the storm unscathed will reach into their hearts to help out those who may have lost everything,” O’Scanlon stated. “Let’s be honest, we all have some extra furniture that’s just taking up space – this way, not only will it get used, but it will go to a family who really needs it.”

Furniture donations are especially needed right now with the needs so overwhelming. Free pickup and tax receipts issued from “Furnished with Love” trucks. Please call 732-222-1923 and find out how you can help. For those looking to contact Love INC directly, please call 732-542-7012.