A Marysville woman is planning a garage sale to raise money for victims of the Indian Ocean tsunami.
A Thai member of the Edmonds Rotary Club is donating a day’s worth of receipts from her restaurant. Premera Blue Cross of Mountlake Terrace is contributing $25,000.
In gestures big and small, Snohomish County residents, organizations and companies continue to respond to the disaster, which killed an estimated 140,000 people.
Rotarian Kayanee Swenson is holding a fund-raiser Wednesday at her Seattle restaurant. Edmonds Rotary Club members will help cook, serve food and clean tables. A sister Rotary Club in Bangkok will help distribute the money.
Swenson’s family lives in Bangkok, which was not affected by the disaster. But a friend in southern Thailand is missing, and the hotel in Phuket where she and her family used to vacation was destroyed. Swenson was in Phuket only six months ago.
“The people who were hurt were not my family, but I felt that at least I could do something for my country,” she said.
The Seattle woman doesn’t want to limit her help to fellow Thais. Proceeds from the $15 all-you-can-eat buffet Wednesday will go to relief efforts in other countries hit by the tsunami as well. Swenson said she hopes to raise $25,000.
The fund-raiser is 11 a.m. -10 p.m. at Royal Palm Thai restaurant, 6417 Roosevelt Way, Seattle.
Fran Murphy, 78, of Marysville, is planning to donate proceeds from a garage sale to the Salvation Army’s relief efforts.
“It’s just a way of trying to help,” she said. “We’d want someone to help us. I don’t have a lot of money myself to give to them, but this is something I can do.”
Murphy hopes others will bring sale items to her home, at 7706 72nd St. NE. She’s also looking for volunteers. The sale will be 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Thursday through Saturday. She’ll be accepting sale items 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Wednesday.
Everett Mall has been collecting money for World Vision at a donation box in the center court since Friday, said mall spokeswoman Kristi Keene. Mall employees haven’t counted the donations, but the box includes a lot of cash and several checks of $100 or more, she said.
Premera Blue Cross, which is based in Mountlake Terrace, is contributing $25,000 to the American Red Cross. Premera also is collecting employees’ donations and forwarding them to the Red Cross.
Reporter David Olson: 425-339-3452 or dolson@heraldnet.com.
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