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Allstate Good Hands
REPAIR NETWORK
2775 Sanders Road, Suite A7, Northbrook, IL 60062
Tracy Tramm
Claim Service Manager
Joe, Jen & Tony Adrian
Adrian Auto Body
3330 Old Crompond Rd
Yorktown Heights, NY 10598
Congratulations!
Your repair facility has received the AutocheX Premier Achiever Award this year. Your team
has earned this prestigious award by being in the top 4% of all repair facilities participating in
the AutocheX survey program. This recognition is a true reflection of your ongoing
commitment to keeping our customers at the "center of ail you do".
On behalf of Allstate Insurance, the Allstate Good Hands® Repair Network and our mutual
customers, I want to extend a personal Thank You. You and your team must be very proud of
this outstanding achievement.
Again, congratulations on earning and receiving this award. We wish you and your team
continued success and the very best for the future.
Sincerely,
'Tramm
Claim-Service Manager
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You're in good hands.
Creative
man's help
makes a
difference
Woman's scooter
difficulty solved
by auto shop owner
By Lanning Taliaf erro
Staff Writer
Thanks to a rubber hose and
a kind and creative businessman, Mary Mclnerney can get
around Yorktown under her
own steam once again. ,
After she shattered a glass
door by bumping it with her
motorized wheelchair as she
tried to open it, she was afraid
to drive the scooter again.
For two months, Mclnerney
searched for some way to cushion the impact if she were to
have another accident. She
called wheelchair manufacturers, medical equipment suppliers and others, but no one
was able, or willing, to help.
"Or they implied that it
would be a $2,000 job, like
something on the Queen
Mary," Mclnerney said. "For
days I was crying, thinking,
'Who else can I call?'"
Then one day Carla Pellicci
came to Beaveridge, the apartment complex for senior citizens and people with /disabilities where Mclnerney lives.
Pellicci works for Westchester
C o u n t y Executive'. Andrew
O'Rourke in the Northern
County Citizen Services Office
in Peekskill.
"Mrs. Mclnerney came to
me, quite distressed," Pellicci
said. "We sat there and brainstormed."
Finally, Pellicci grabbed a
telephone directory, opened it
to auto body shops and called
the first one she found.
"A young man answered,"
she said. "I related the story to
him, and he said, Til be there
in 20 minutes.' "
Joe Adrian Jr., owner of
Adrian Auto Body on Crompond Road in Y o r k t o w n ,
showed up, studied the scooter
and .Borrowed the building superintendent's tools to remove
a piece from the front of it.
Three hours later he had devised and installed a bumper
built from a piece of radiator
hose.
Staff photo/KathyGardner
Mary Mclnerney, who lives in the Beaveridge senior citizens
complex in Yorktown, is able to use her motorized scooter again
after the county executive's outreach office succeeded in finding
an auto body shop to invent a protective bumper for the scooter's
front rail. Mclnerney had stopped using her scooter after she
crashed into the complex's glass door two months ago.
The bumper restored Mclnerney's confidence and her
mobility. It made it possible for
her to get around without calling — and waiting for — the
county's Paratransit service.
Adrian said he didn't think
twice about helping out.
"Everybody needs friends,
everybody has feelings, everybody needs to get things done,"
he said. "I've been here'24
years. I've got no plans to
leave. She's part of my coinmunity. Also, I'm very fortunate
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people and respect their problems."
Mclnerney and Adrian did
have an argument —- she said
she insisted on giving Adrian
$30, and he said he didn't want
to take it. Mclnerney prevailed
(she said she threatened to
cry). She said she didn't want
to be beholden if she had to
ask him for help again.
"I'm just so gratefal to him
and to Carla," she said. "Thank
God there are some beautiful
American Red Cross
in Westchester County
106 North Broadway
White Plains, NY 10603-3797
Tel: 1-914-946-6500
Fax: I-914-684-6051
Adrian Auto Body
3330 Old Crompond Rd.
YorktownN.Y. 10598
American Red Cross
Disaster Services
106 North Broadway
White Plains N.Y. 10603
Dear Joe,
I would like to take this opportunity to thank you and your dedicated employees for helping
us restore one of our Disaster Response Vehicles. It is people like you who help us help
others.
The American Red Cross receives no governmental funding of any kind. We are supported
solely by donations, whether in funds or in-kind gifts, which enable us to help the
community.
The paint job that you provided for our disaster response vehicle has truly set the standards
for professionalism for our disaster response to our community.
Again thank you for your assistance in helping us to improve and expand our disaster
response capabilities here in Westchester County.
Respectfully
Richard S. Pugh Sr.
Response Vehicle Coordinator.
A Partner in the United W»y of Wfestchester and Putnam
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