[Ansteorra] Katrina

[Chelsea Williams]

House Corsair has the wishing well. We used it at crown for donations for 
Brett's surgery. Perhaps we could use it at Gothic for donations for 
Katrina? I don't know. What do all of you other Corsairs think?
-Grainne
PS this will be posted again at the Corsair site.



We built up empires, we STOLE countries, that's how you build an empire. We 
built up empires with the cunning use of flags... yeah. Just sailed around 
the world and stuck a flag in. "I claim India for Britain!" They're like, 
"You can't claim us, we live here. There's 500 million of us." "Well do you 
have a FLAAAG?" *sticks out tongue* "We don't need a bloody flag, this is 
our country, you bastard!" "No flag, no country! You can't have one! That's 
the rules that I've just made up! And I'm backing it up with this gun that 
was lent from the National Rifle Assocation." And that was it! -Eddie 
Izzard, "Dress to Kill."






From: Bethany Burke <damsle_n_distress2003 at yahoo.com>
Reply-To: "Kingdom of Ansteorra - SCA, Inc." <ansteorra at ansteorra.org>
To: hpockets at verizon.net,        "Kingdom of Ansteorra - SCA, Inc." 
<ansteorra at ansteorra.org>
Subject: Re: [Ansteorra] Katrina
Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2005 06:34:23 -0700 (PDT)

Ok, Gothic War is this weekend, would it be feasible for there to be a 
donation can set up there for those of us who want to, to donate money to 
the Red Cross?  How would one go about setting this up?

Gerita/Carolle Cox <hpockets at verizon.net> wrote:
Once again, I am charmed by the generosity of people in the SCA, and
honored to be among you.

I've worked in disasters as a trained volunteer. Just a few words of
caution, please:

Right after a disaster, there is not enough food or water for the people
involved. If someone does drive down there with a truckload of
donations, please, please, please, bring your own food and water.
Otherwise you become another 'disaster victim' that must be fed and
cared for by already stretched resources.

Donations "in kind" should probably be made through SCA channels. The
Red Cross gets literally mountains of canned food, clothing, baby items,
and pet items. Some of it is never used.

American Red Cross has taken some black eyes, but honestly their entire
peace-time purpose is serving the people involved in disasters such as
this. They, too, need whatever pennies you can send their way to help
defray the enormous expense of bringing in dozens of trained people,
supporting them while they're there, maintaining the ERV s (emergency
response vehicles) and (where most of the money goes) opening shelters
for victims, caring for them, buying them needed prescriptions that were
left behind, etc. It's a good cause at any time, but during a disaster,
it's a great one.

Just my two lira,
Gerita del Mare

DFWchinlovers at yahoogroups.com
www.japanesechinrescue.org
http://carollesknitting.blogspot.com

People are like stained glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the
sun is out, but when darkness sets in, their beauty is revealed only if
there is a light from within. -- Elizabeth Kübler-Ross



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