Salon owners host silent auction to help a family
Published: September 26, 2005
The owners of a local salon are working to help a family from the Gulf relocate to Canton.
John and Amber Gaylord of Dileo Family Hair Care, Inc., in the Ledgewood Plaza on Route 44 are taking donations from businesses for a silent auction next month.
The proceeds from the auction will go to a family coming to Connecticut from the ravaged Gulf region.
The seven-member family is set to arrive in the state any day, Amber said.
The family is in need of many different items because they lost everything when Hurricane Katrina slammed into their town last month.
“We think residents would want to help a family coming to Canton,” Amber said.
The family is being moved into a vacant church parsonage in Canton as part of state religious group’s relief efforts.
Amber said the family that arrives may change, but she believes the family of seven will be the one that arrives shortly.
To help out the family, businesses in the plaza are donating items for the silent auction that will run from Oct. 4 to 9.
All of the money from the auction will go to the family to help get them on their feet.
“We are giving 100 percent of what is made,” Amber said.
Businesses and individuals throughout the region are asked to donate items to the auction, Amber said.
Amber said all items should be donated by Oct. 3.
To help out the cause, the Torrington Fire Department said it could donate any items the family needs.
The department has been collecting bulk items since the storm struck, but is suspending collections because of the high price of transportation.
Deputy Fire Chief Jaye Giampaolo said one trip to the region could cost $1,600 in fuel.
As a result, the department is changing to a joint program with Wal-Mart where people can go into the store on Torringford Street, buy a gift card and donate it to the fire department.
This way the department can buy goods on the Internet with the cards and have the goods shipped to the region by Wal-Mart, Giampaolo said.
In the meantime, Giampaolo said the family coming to the state could have some of the goods they still have at the fire station on Water Street in Torrington.
“Make up a list, and we will make it happen,” he said.
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