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An evening with the ‘rents and updates on Pearlington

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Denise
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Well my parents came back in from their visiting in NJ with all the family news. We bonded over some tangled yarn…

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They will be here till next Tuesday so we are working on getting some things done so we can have a bit of time off from schoolwork to have fun with them! (in the rain..)

Today is focused on getting schoolwork done with the kids, and getting ready for the pampered chef party.

I just got an update from Angela, there is a peice airing tonight on Anderson Cooper 360 about Pearlington, MS.

Here is what Angela writes:

Thank you for your continued interest in the situation in Pearlington, Mississippi. I was just there again last month and there remains much to be done. There is still no grocery store, no school, no Post Office – no infrastructure. However, due to the press coverage, there are many volunteers doing what they can. Yet, families continue to fall through the cracks in the absence of any formal plan for Pearlington. So, the people – with the help of random volunteers – continue to fend for themselves almost 9 months after the worst disaster to hit US soil.

There are serious environmental concerns that remain, including concerns regarding the soil in which children play and the water which they drink. CNN joined me in Pearlington last month to address many environmental concerns. They taped 2 segments, one of which aired yesterday morning on American Morning with Soledad O’Brien. Given the quickly changing news cycle, I was not even aware of the air day and time until after it was shown. (I will soon have it loaded onto my website.) However, tonight, on Anderson Cooper 360, the Pearlington segment will re-air along with the other environmental segment which CNN filmed. “AC 360” is shown on CNN at 10:00 PM EST. Please watch and spread the word that the Gulf Coast is not OK. The people of Pearlington and so many other poor, rural, overlooked communities need as much of our support 9 months after the fact as they did 9 weeks after.

Continuing in Peace and Justice,

Angela

Angela J. Cole, MPH, RN
I am hoping to start a new campaign for summer supplies at Purls of Hope, so please check in from time to time on the site to see what new items need to be sent down.

Also look for updates at the Pearlington Project site! Thanks for your help in the past and keep up the great work!!

, so please check in from time to time on the site to see what new items need to be sent down.

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One response to “An evening with the ‘rents and updates on Pearlington”

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    Elisabeth

    Hi, there-I’m from Minnesota and went on a week-long trip to Mississippi at the end of March. There were groups of people from our community going down for one week at a time for the whole month of March and now they are sending one team down for a week every month for as long as we can-so far there are trips scheduled until December. Anyway, I just wanted to let you know where I was and what we did down there. Our team went down to a camp based about a half an hour away from Pearlington in the Waveland/Bay St. Louis area. The week I was there we went to Pearlington to help a man take apart his house and build a new one. Up until the time we got there, he had been taking his former home apart piece by piece and using whatever he could to build a new home. Much of what was left of his home was rotting away. We did a lot of smelly work, and a lot of good work. We got his house taken down pretty much in one day (40 of us were at his house working nonstop), cleaned up his yard a bit and started taking nails out of boards. Another group was able to be there for the rest of the week (they were a bit more skilled than me) and were pretty well able to help this man get his home framed in. We did a lot of work like that at different places in that week. There is still a lot left to do, but if people are willing to take just a week of there time to help out-or more-so much can get done. You should have seen the look on people’s faces as we worked on their homes. They were so grateful for the help. One last thing, if you don’t realize how much small hand made items can mean to a family, we gave a handmade quilt to evyone that we worked with. For people who have lost eveything, including precious heirlooms made by grandparents and all, just having one precious item to help feel like you can start over is a big help. So many people feel lost and hopeless like they don’t even know how to start over, those little and precious gifts mean the world to them. If you want to know about some other ways to help another website you can check out is http://www.mnkatrinarelief.org Thank you in advance for any help that you can give. Thanks for what you are doing Denise!

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