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Orange Confidential: Benefit concert will help send aid to Haiti
Time Herald Record
Posted: March 11, 2010 - 2:00 AM

The Otisville Brass Quintet will perform a benefit concert at 7 p.m. March 19 at St. John's Lutheran Church, 391 Mount Hope Road, Middletown.

Free-will donations at the door will help support Middletown High School guidance counselor Schadrac Saint Louis on a return trip to his native Haiti this spring to bring humanitarian aid. Saint Louis spent four days there in February distributing water and food with a Haitian aid group, and he'll return to take more supplies to the area where he grew up, near Croix-des-Bouquets a few miles from Port-au-Prince.

Middletown High School staff and students and St. John's Church donated to Saint Louis' initial trip.

The Otisville Brass Quintet (including the Times Herald-Record's own Oliver Mackson on trumpet and flugelhorn) will perform classical, sacred, patriotic, blues and polka tunes.
For more information on the concert, call 341-0924.

Saint Louis is also collecting nonperishable food, hygiene kits, clothing, tents, blankets and shoes for his return trip to Haiti, with the assistance of the Otisville-Mt. Hope Presbyterian Church and St. John's Lutheran Church. Donations can be made at Otisville-Mt. Hope Presbyterian, 25 Main St., Otisville (contact Rita at 726-3298); at St. John's (contact Cathie Heil at 733-4039 or Julene De Leeuw at 341-0924); at Studio Ayo, 113 Cottage St., Middletown (contact Damola at 820-8504); or at Mercy College in Dobbs Ferry (contact Caitlin Kruger at 914-674-7640). You can also call Schadrac Saint Louis at 300-5913.
Heather Yakin