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Current Needs: 

People who are going down to the coast.
Volunteers in warehouse. 
Anti-biotic ointment for first aid kits.
Locking cabinet.

We made a quick run to Waveland this past weekend, taking 50 Diabetic kits and several boxes of notebooks and office supplies to Angie, LA.  Donice met me in a parking lot in Picayune.  Then we took a box of medical supplies to Suzie at Hancock Humane Society.

Here is a picture of a precious dog that needs a home.  This cute dog is fixed and has all her shots.  Is house trained and even does a few tricks.  Her “mother” had to be sent to a nursery home and “Ms. P.” is heart broken.  I think we can arrange transport for her if someone will commit to take her.  She is normally a long haired dog and is pictured here with a shave.  Please call Laura at 251-0111.

Bayer Co. notified us that they no longer make the type of monitors we have been using, but decided that they are going to continue to supply us with newer monitors and strips etc.  This is great news for the people of the gulf coast!  Thank you Bayer Co. for supporting these people in their recovery!  A new shipment is in if anyone wants to volunteer to help put kits together.

We have shipped out the extra strips we had to D’Iberville, MS and Angie, LA.  About 60 kits went to the Calcasieu Community Clinic in Lake Charles, LA and Bethel Lutheran Free Clinic in Billoxi.

A box of specimen cups went to St. Anna’s Epicopal Church.

A box of needles and syringes and a box of denture cups went to St. Charles Comm. Health Clinic.

Two boxes of new kits went to Angie Clinic.

Mountain Top Community Church made a trip down to help with re-building and took about 2 ˝ pallets of medical supplies to Ocean Springs.

The distribution clinic in Ocean Springs has called twice to let us know about all the places that received the medical donations and to tell us how grateful everyone was. 

Jim Paul with Kenn Tenn and his father in law stopped by on his way down with a load blinds and picked up 5 pallets of medical supplies, 20 diabetic kits and a pallet of baby formula for Bayou La Batre,  and 3 pallets of tunafish and plastic forks which will go to the volunteer camps for lunches.  Jim tells great stories and kept me up till 2am listening to them!  I think he said he’s made 50 trips down to the coast. Wow! 

We got an SOS from Trish at Foundation Hope in Waveland about an ederly couple who were ill and still trying to get back into their house from a FEMA trailer.  The only thing keeping them from moving back in was the installation of a septic tank and no monies could be found for them.  Again, Mountain Top Comm. Church kicked in and donated the funds.  Thanks Mountain Top!!!

We also shipped a pallet of diabetic kits into Hammond, LA which will be accessible to the New Orleans area clinics!

Jeremy King from Channel 33/40 came out to the warehouse on Katrina’s anniversary date to shoot us getting a load out.  We thought they did a great job on the piece they put together.  If anybody recorded it, please let me know.