more good news: neighbor helping neighbor

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Tribe opens casino to evacuees, Kiowa woman travels to disaster site

Louisiana’s Tunica-Biloxi Tribe let hundreds of displaced people take refuge in their Paragon Casino and Resort.“We are providing food, clothing, linen and water for hygiene to help these people in their time of need,” Tunica-Biloxi spokeswoman Linda Bordelon told the Native American Times. She said the casino housed as many as 520 evacuees from seven parishes.

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Muskogee helps...

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Tulsa responds



Tulsa - Watching the desperation of the hurricane victims can stir up a host of emotions -- sadness, anger, helplessness, even guilt. NewsChannel 8's Teri Bowers shows us how to turn those feelings into real action. Generous Tulsans are bringing carload after carload of water, food, even toilet paper to the Feed The Children collection site in South Tulsa. "I just bring some, but I need some more," says Angelina Tran. "I'm going to go to Sam's and load my car up!" "We didn't have enough time this morning, so we're going to go get some more stuff because a lot of people need help down there," adds Quien Ha.

(Ah, a good old Okie name: Quiwn Ha..)

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34 buses arrive in Oklahoma...to the NG base in Braggs...

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And then there is Kansas:
Wichitans minister to the needs of refugeesBY PHYLLIS JACOBS GRIEKSPOORThe Wichita Eagle
With the help of fellow members of Faith Community Church, Josh Barger has found a haven in Wichita for his extended family, who lost everything to Hurricane Katrina.
The Bargers and three family friends -- 11 in all -- arrived early Saturday. They left Slidell, La., not knowing where they would stay.
"I live in a little apartment," Josh Barger said. "I didn't know what to do, so I asked my church if they could help."
As a result, the refugees had a house by the time they arrived. Two church members donated the house, and others pitched in Saturday to start sprucing it up.

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So when you read the screaming headlines, just remember:

"Great ideas, it has been said, come into the world as gently as doves. Perhaps then, if we listen attentively, we shall hear amid the uproar of empires and nations, a faint flutter of wings, a gentle stirring of life and hope. Some will say that this hope lies in a nation; others, in a man. I believe rather that it is awakened, revived, nourished by millions of solitary individuals whose deeds and works every day negate frontiers and the crudest implications of history. As a result, there shines forth fleetingly the ever-threatened truth that each and every man, on the foundation of his own sufferings and joys, builds for all." --Camus