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September 05, 2005

Evacuees to Arrive at LA's Dream Center

From Christine Price & Joel Bronson

As some of you might know already and some might not know, 300 New Orleans/Mississippi evacuees are on their way here to Los Angeles and should arrive here sometime today. They will be housed at the Dream Center (which has been converted into a homeless shelter). Besides the evacuees, I also have a friend whose family has lost everything in Mississippi and they are also on their way here as well.

The organization that is taking in the New Orleans/Mississippi refugees is called the Dream Center. (Not Good Samaritan hospital)

The dream Center is run out of the Old "Queen of Angeles Hospital".
2301 Bellevue Ave. Los Angeles Ca. 90026

What I am asking from my fellow coworkers and friends are donations. I am asking that we donate clothes (men's, women's and children), toys, toiletries and etc. I will personally come and pick up the donations from you and I will personally deliver the donations to the hospital as well. I will keep doing this as long as the donations come in. I would like to start taking stuff over this week.

For people local to Los Angeles: You can either contact me at (christine.pryce@fox.com)

Regardless of our political views or feelings. Lets band together and show that we Californians do care and welcome these people to our city.

Posted by mbowen at September 5, 2005 10:07 AM

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Good for you, Cobb, and I volunteered at my church where we have a Salvation army donation trailer and are also ferrying specific things to shelters where they're needed. But there was an article in the paper today in which our county mayor (whom I used to like) was griping about "free-lancing" relief groups who aren't letting EMA and the Red Cross "coordinate" their efforts. So we shouldn't have been taking toiletries and laundry detergent and new underwear to these people, we should have let them wear the same clothes they've stood up in for a week until somebody official decides to let them have something else. Wasn't it Reagan who said the scariest words in the English language are "We're from the government, and we're here to help."

Posted by: Laura at September 7, 2005 07:30 PM