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Food Drive for Rural Mississippi |
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by wayward
Email: wedwards (nospam) uiuc.edu (unverified!) |
12 Sep 2005
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Help needed filling truck for Katrina victims in rural MS |
via Kim Kranich, Joan Nelshoppen, and others ...
Friends,
If you are in the Champaign-Urbana-Savoy area, I want to let you know that
there is a local food drive happening this week to help hurricane survivors
in rural Mississippi who have not received much help.
Food and toiletries are being collected at the Illinois Employment Training
Center on Mattis near Bradley Ave this Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday
(Sept 13,14,15) from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. and again from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m on all
three days. There is a 53 ft trailer that needs filling! Please contribute
if you are able. If you need pick-up of your contributions, please call
(217)369-2853.
This food drive is sponsored by CU Citizens for Peace & Justice, CUAP, Salem
Baptist Church, TLC Trucking and many others.
I know many of you have donated money to hurricane relief, please consider
if you can also donate something from your pantry. These folks need
immediate assistance! The only food that is coming there is coming by
volunteer trucks such as this one. There is not food available to buy and
there has been no FEMA support yet.
Donations will be taken the following days and times at the old Kay's
Merchandise site on N. Mattis where the truck is parked:
Tuesday, 11am -2pm and 5-8pm
Wed., 11am -2pm and 5-8pm
Thursday, 11am -2pm and 5-8pm
The truck will head to State Line, MS and may also make a stop in Laurel,
MS. I got this info. directly from the driver of the truck last night. This
effort is a combination effort of folks who worked on the truck that went
out last Monday and folks from the CU Area Project and some local black
ministers.
Truck leaves bright and early Friday and so all donations will stop being
taken at 8pm on Thursday. |
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Re: Food Drive for Rural Mississippi |
by 5
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12 Sep 2005
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I forwarded this info to some local blogs as well. |
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Re: Food Drive for Rural Mississippi |
by IlliniPundit
IlliniPundit (nospam) gmail.com (unverified) |
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12 Sep 2005
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Thanks for the heads-up. I'll have a post linking to this announcement up on IlliniPundit.com first thing in the morning. |
