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Hurricane Katrina Relief Effort Updates
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 Gas prices soar as supplies plummet after hurricane - With Gulf Coast refineries and pipelines disabled or destroyed by Hurricane Katrina, gas prices in and around Jackson County soared last week. AAA of the Carolinas issued a statement Tuesday (Aug. 30) warning that....
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Herald, WRGC spearhead local effort to help Katrina’s victims - Residents of Jackson County and the surrounding area will have a chance to provide direct financial assistance to the many victims of Hurricane Katrina. The Sylva Herald, WRGC radio, WestCare, the Sylva Rotary Club, Western Carolina University, Jackson County Commissioners and others are coordinating a community fund-raiser, “Jackson County Cares....
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 Deitz assists in relief effort - Grover Deitz of Sylva’s East Fork community got a firsthand look at Hurrican Katrina’s destruction last week. A volunteer with North Carolina Baptist Men, Deitz helped cook and serve 50,000 meals during the four days he spent in Meridian, Miss. Deitz said he didn’t have any time to tour the area and see the extent of the storm’s wrath; he was too busy feeding people in Meridian, which is about....
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Sylva leaders to apply for watershed-protection grant - Sylva officials decided last Thursday (Sept. 1) to apply for a Clean Water Trust Fund grant in exchange for permanently protecting the Pinnacle Park watershed. After a brief discussion on what to do with the area, town board members followed the advice of Paul Carlson of the Land Trust for the Little Tennessee and opted to apply for the grant. Applications are due on Dec. 1. The vote was 4-0; town board member Eldridge Painter was absent. “If the sense of the board is the conservation of that land, there is a window of opportunity....
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Family flees New Orleans area before storm hits - Unlike many of the south Lousiana residents uprooted by Hurricane Katrina, one family with local ties opted to leave town before the storm hit. Barry Nicholson, a 1987 Sylva-Webster High School graduate, left the New Orleans area with his wife and baby daughter before the monster storm came ashore. “We left Sunday morning (Aug. 28),” Nicholson said. “We had planned to come up here for Labor Day anyway, so we just left a few days early.” Though the couple had left their home in Kenner, La., which is located west of New Orleans....
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 Sylva residents deliver relief goods - Sylva resident Margaret Hamilton, fourth from left, was scheduled to arrive in Gulfport, Miss., Wednesday (Sept. 6) with a load of supplies donated through a relief drive held this past weekend. “We had a great response,” she said. “We have a 26-foot U-Haul truck that’s actually overloaded. Most of our weight is bottled water, but we also have a tremendous amount of baby supplies, and I think we bought out Wal-Mart’s entire supply of peanut butter.” Along with supplies, volunteers....
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