August 29, 2017 SILVER LAKE TOWNSHIP, Pa (WBNG) -- For 140 years the Fresh Air Fund has provided close to two million New York City children, from low-income families, summer fun in rural areas along the East Coast and parts of Southern Canada. Each summer, families in the Southern Tier and around the region, open their homes as host families to these children. Wendy and Ron Greco, of Gowanda, volunteered for the first time this summer through the Fresh Air Fund. For one week, Barry Zheng, 9, of Staten Island and David Saldivar, 10, of Brooklyn stayed with the Greco's at their lake house on Silver Lake, just five miles south of Vestal. For Ron Greco, he's been coming to this lake house since he was a child, after his grandfather built it in the 1940's. "It was an experience for our family with our teenage kids doing their thing, and these kids doing their thing and combing the whole thing together," said Greco. Ron, a doctor, said this experience was closer to home, "I used to do trips to Honduras and Haiti. This just seemed a lot easier." The Greco's kids also helped in providing fun from fishing, canoeing, croquet, swimming, sitting by the camp fire and more. Many of which David Saldivar doesn't do much of in Brooklyn. "Where I live there's a whole bunch of cars passing and motorcycles, so it's like pretty noisy over there, over here I feel like there's nobody living here and it's just us here," said Saldivar. Wendy Greco is just glad both David and Barry, two strangers prior to coming to Silver Lake, got along. Click here for more information on the Fresh Air Fund "Like" Michael Schwartz on Facebook and "Follow" him on Twitter. If you know anyone who has, or performs selfless acts, email MiSchwartz@WBNG.com to possibly be featured on his next story!
