People are being generous and I want them to but every penny that comes in here marked disaster goes to disaster. We don't keep anything locally for overhead. It all goes to disaster. |
People are going to be without homes or places to put stuff, |
Rally for Relief: Oriental's Response to the Victims of Hurricane Katrina |
The best thing to do is donate funds, ... The problem that exists is there's no where to store any donated materials. |
The kids needed something to do, ... It was no more complicated than that. |
The relatives don't know they come here every week, |
The Salvation Army was there from day-one, ... They were providing shelter before the storm hit. They had 290 people at a Salvation Army building in New Orleans when the hurricane hit. Monday they were out of food. Thursday they were out of water. Friday they were finally rescued. The (Salvation Army) officer was injured when they were loading people out onto the helicopter. |
They are just getting on transportation and taken some place they have never lived before, ... That has to be hard in itself, going to the unknown. |
They are our mascots, |
They ask us not to come to their homes. |
They know what a red kettle means to people, ... People know that a Salvation Army kettle is a pretty safe donation place. |
undermine its religious mission. |
We already have three classes of between 20 and 30 people, |
We are thrilled with the generosity of the Bakersfield community, ... We are grateful to the Condors for inviting us to participate in this event and for the amazing amount of food that we received. |
We ask anyone interested to come on a Sunday morning, not to come to church but to meet the bandmaster. |