Wayne Athletes Collecting Donations For Texas Flood Victims

WAYNE, NJ — The Wayne Valley varsity football team is collecting donations for Texas flood victims.

"After seeing the awful pictures of the destruction, our booster club and the coaches felt that we had to help the people of Houston in anyway we could," said Suzanne McKay, a booster club member.

The club and coaches have partnered with Austin Disaster Relief Network and Texas Diaper Bank to collect and ship items to Texas.

People will be in the back of the cafeteria at Wayne Valley Sept. 9 from 1 to 3 p.m. and Sept. 30 from noon to 3 p.m.

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The following items are needed. Items must be new. No used items will be accepted: Kids and adults underwear, socks and pajamas, travel-size toiletries, pillows, blankets, leather work gloves, hand sanitizer, mops, buckets, black trash bags, utility knives, box fans, blow-up mattresses, diapers and paper towels.

Large boxes to ship the items are also needed.

Football players will be in the cafeteria boxing up the items and shipping them ready to ship Sept. 30.

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Photo: Conception Casa, center, and his friend Jose Martinez, right, check on Rhonda Worthington after her car became stuck in rising floodwaters from Tropical Storm Harvey in Houston, Texas, Monday. The two men were evacuating their home that had become flooded when they encountered Worthington's car floating off the road. (Associated Press Photo/LM Otero)