The best you can do is to donate. Donate your clothing, your gently used items, your housewares. We want to try and get as many as those kind of things in the hands of the people who lost all of this,

Clothing, baggage, laptop, computer, phone, personal items -- everything.

If you are not able to fill a box you may like to donate items to be packed by the Lioness Club in the box provided at the National Bank, or adopt a box for $7,

If you've given away non-cash items, whether it's clothing or furniture, and you have valuations of between $500 and $5,000, then there's a form 82-83 that should be completed.

We'll look into it and try to find out the best way to donate toward the victims. Hopefully we'll be able to make some money and the kids will get a taste of what it is like to try to help somebody else. They came up with the idea on their own and really wanted to help the people and we thought it was a great idea.

The article said that since the Upper West Side lost Charivari (an expensive clothing retailer) and the China Club (a nightspot), it's equivalent to 'a mall in Iowa,'