Domingo Soto: Because Freedom Isn't Dumb

REPORT ON KATHRYN'S RELIEF EFFORT
Hello everyone. I just wanted to let you all know how your money and supplies are being expended. With the help of the ladies at Christian Ministries, Emerald Coast RV's and LOTS of their people, together with some of the money and supplies that you all have sent, I set up a hot meal service this weekend in Pearlington, Miss. (As you may know from other e-mails from me and phone calls, Pearlington is a little fishing villlage on the Pearl River on the Miss/La border. They are part of "ground zero".
My dear friends, James Amerson and Jeff Griffey, together with some volunteer help and a Pensacola News Journal reporter, and I were able to cook and serve between 500/600 hot meals to floks in Pearlington. The home-cooked red beans and rice, grilled sausage, fresh fruit, and cookies were a big hit on Saturday. Saturday night, James, Jeff and I camped out in Diamondhead, Ms at the United Methodist Church parking lot. We cooked chicken and rice and green beans for sunday. We also served breakfast on sunday morning (sausage biscuits, pb and j sandwiches, cookies, fruit, juice and coffee). Again, everything was a big hit as Pearlington had not had hot meals service until this weekend. I must tell you that the frech iced tea was our biggest hit....folks in the south NEED their iced tea.
We coordinated with the Diamonhead United Methodists and with FEMA (who is now on the ground in Pearlington) and hot meals service will continue daily. There is a shelter being set up by FEMA. There are a group of fine volunteer nurses on the ground and a hell of a vet running animal aide and fostering. The FEMA man in charge is doing a great job. We donated all of our equipment (grills, fish cookers, generator, supplies, groceries and fans) to various folks there that needed them. Christian Ministries spoke with me last night and are sending in a load of clean-up equipment today.
I will go back with more euipment later this week. Your donations all went to people that needed them and were so deeply appreciated. We come empty handed except for a small yellow tabby kitten fished out of the flood and now adopted by Kim at the Copper Possum.
Thank you everyone.
(Kathryn Runco Miller)