March marks Red Cross Month nationwide and the town of Greenwich is taking the time to celebrate the organization that delivers vital services for those in need.<\/p>\n
Officials held a flag raising and proclamation ceremony Monday morning at Greenwich Town Hall for the Metro New York North Chapter.<\/p>\n
“It just shows how much the town appreciates all that they do and really enjoys having the headquarters here in Greenwich,\u201d said First Selectman Fred Camillo (R-Greenwich). \u201cAnd it’s just a reminder when people pass by Town Hall that it’s Red Cross Month<\/a>.” “In two months, they’re going to be celebrating their 145th anniversary, so you’ll be seeing a lot more of the Red Cross in May too,” said Camillo.<\/p>\n The American Red Cross says the month-long recognition began as a national call to action during World War II to address growing humanitarian needs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"March marks Red Cross Month nationwide and the town of Greenwich is taking the time to celebrate the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":150129,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[31897,62846,98,100,99,26349,661,9,24,63,32656],"class_list":{"0":"post-150132","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-brooklyn","8":"tag-american-red-cross","9":"tag-blood-drive","10":"tag-brooklyn","11":"tag-brooklyn-headlines","12":"tag-brooklyn-news","13":"tag-disaster-relief","14":"tag-military","15":"tag-new-york","16":"tag-new-york-city","17":"tag-nyc","18":"tag-red-cross"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=150132"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150132\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/150129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nThere are currently more than 300,000 “Red Crossers”<\/a> in the volunteer workforce across the U.S. They provide disaster relief, support blood drives and military families, as well as teach first aid and CPR classes.<\/p>\n