Thursday, September 22, 2005

People helping people

East Texans find disaster, gratitude in Mississippi

By GABRIEL D. BROOKS

Wednesday, September 21, 2005

More than 90 Mount Pleasant volunteers made a three-day visit to the disaster-struck state of Mississippi over the weekend.

Two school buses and seven trucks were converted into a Hurricane Katrina relief convoy, shipping 61 students and 31 Mount Pleasant High School staff members and parents to Leaksville, Miss., a town of just more than 1,000 residents....

LINK is a list of other small groups in East5 Texas helping

A long list...of people, churches, small businesses and groups...I stopped counting at 29...

Ironically, Hurricane Rita is scheduled to hit east Texas LINK

And here is a report of Okies about their experience helping in Mississippi: LINK