Back home Posted by butche
on September 13 2005 06:09
Well, I forgot to post the news that I am back in town. :-) The trip to Louisiana was a lot of fun and was a success. My family and I went down to Mac's place with several items and got a chance to meet some of the evacuees as well as those that were running the shelter.
We delivered 700 pounds of rice, which was donated by Martin Rice of Parma, MO. Mike Martin had agreed to donate up to 2000 pounds of rice, but my van just wouldn't handle that much. :-( I wish I could have carried more, as the 700 pounds just didn't go very far. We had about 75 teddy bears for the kids, of which, we donated 50 and 25 were collected from various sources. The local Nazarene church here in Malden donated several emergency kits (including soap, towels, band-aids and such).
There are several pictures in the photo album of the people we visited. The rice went to 6 shelters in the local area. What a blessing this trip was!
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