May 7, 2011
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Reiser Relief keeps wheels turning in
Haiti
Rev. Bernard Reiser welcomes hundreds to the annual Keep the Wheel
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Turning Reiser Relief fund-raiser event, staged April 26 at the Courtyards
of Andover Photo by Sue Austreng
by Sue Austreng
Staff Writer
Their hearts beating with boundless compassion and
their wallets eager for bountiful harvest, some 500
guests attended the April 26 Bringing Hope to Haiti
fund-raising event at the Courtyards of Andover.
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The fifth annual Reiser Relief fund-raiser was staged
at the Courtyards of Andover and guests did, indeed,
to their best to “keep the wheel turning.”
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That wheel – the wheel of life fueled by Reiser Relief
projects providing fresh water, stocking food centers
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and funding education and eldercare facilities – is
turning in the impoverished country of Haiti.
According to Doris Schulte, vice president of the
Reiser Relief board, $55,000 in donations have been
collected as a result of the event – and checks are
still coming in.
Money was raised at the April 26 event when guests
purchased $5 general admission tickets, participa-
ted in live and silent auctions, purchased raffle tic-
kets, paid entry fees to play a couple of games and
bought copies of Rev. Bernard Reiser’s devotional
book, “Reiser’s Ramblings.”
“We are so grateful for the generosity of so many
people,” said Schulte.
Reiser, the founder of Reiser Relief and longtime
priest at Epiphany Catholic Church, Coon Rapids,
echoed Schulte’s sentiment.
“We are so grateful for the support from all of
you,” Reiser said. “May God bless each of you most
abundantly and know you are in my daily Mass
and prayers.”
Fresh water project
In addition to Bringing Hope to Haiti fund-raiser
money going to Reiser Relief’s Haitian service pro-
jects, a refurbished water truck will be sent to the
Caribbean country, as well.
The truck, acquired and refurbished by Harri Rinta,
will be used along with a second Reiser Relief wa-
ter truck to deliver fresh, free water to 24 neighbo-
rhoods in one of the poorest slums in the western
hemisphere.
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Reiser Relief keeps wheels turning in Haiti

Kevin McClellan, coordinator of the Reiser Relief Sue Austreng is at sue.austreng@ecm-inc.

fresh water project, said that the project provides com
yearly delivery of more than four million gallons
of clean water to the poor in the Haitian slum of  
Cité Soleil.
 
According to www.ReiserRelief.org, the Reiser Relief
water trucks deliver four 3,500-gallon loads of water,
six days a week, 52 weeks per year to thousands of
people.

That is the equivalent of 800,000 five gallon buckets

of water each year.

Birth of Reiser Relief

Reiser Relief was formed by Reiser shortly after he

returned from his first trip to Haiti more than a
dozen years ago.

Since its beginning, as stated on its website, Reiser

Relief has “helped to bestow new hope for many
hundreds of God’s needy people through the gene-
rosity of a great number of people.”

Reiser Relief monthly expenses include:

• $2,000 to pay salaries for Haitian water truck dri-

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vers, maintain the trucks and buy fuel

• $2,500 for teachers’ salaries

• $1,250 to cover the costs of running two schools

Those interested in learning more about Reiser Re-

lief – and those who would like to make a donation
– should visit www.ReiserRelief.org.
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Donations can also be sent to Reiser Relief, Inc., 1800

111th Ave. N.W., #320, Coon Rapids, MN 55433.

All donations to the 501(c)3 non-profit organization

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are tax deductible.

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