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Fayette Relief Efforts
To donate cash or gift cards, contact DFACS at 770-460-2555 (9-5, Monday through Friday)
To donate food, toiletries, clothing or practical household items, or to organize a drive, contact Real Life Center, 770-631-9334 (rlc@reallifecenter.org) Monday through Thursday 9-12, also evenings on Tuesdays and Thursdays 5-7. Or contact Fayette Samaritans, 770-719-2707 (Monday Friday 12-5)
If you have available housing or would like information on housing, contact: Becky Smith, Executive Director of Fayette FACTOR, 404-291-1602 or bsmith719@bellsouth.net (Monday-Friday, 9-2).
If you have an automobile you can donate, contact Real Life Center 770-631-9334 or rlc@reallifecenter.org (Monday-Thursday 9-12 and Tuesday and Thursday evenings, 5-7).
Career assistance for families in need, contact: Cindy at Randstad 770-487-1446; Real Life Center, 770-631-9334 or rlc@reallifecenter.org (same hours as above).
Other business contacts: Fayette County Chamber of Commerce, 770-461-9983 (Monday-Friday, 8-5); Brian Cordoza with the Fayette County Development Authority, 770-460-5730.
Also The Citizen newspaper is donating free ads to persons in need of work. Call 770-719-1880 Monday-Friday, 8-6.
To volunteer, please contact any of the above organizations.
Bring food to concert Friday
Bring food to the free God and Country Night concert at The Villages Amphitheater in Fayetteville Sunday and it will be given to The Real Life Center, an outreach of Dogwood Church. The concert begins at 7 p.m. Gates open at 6 p.m.
Food collected there will be used for local families and those affected
by the hurricane, officials said. For information call Cathy Berggen at 770-487-6691 or 770-631-9334.
Gumbo Feed benefits Red Cross
Heritage of Peachtree will hold a Southern style Gumbo Feed with all the fixings to raise money for the victims of Hurricane Katrina. �
The Gumbo Feed will be held on Friday September 9, 2005 from noon to 1:00 p.m.� Everyone is welcome!� Stop by to attend and enjoy some great Louisiana-style cooking with 100% of the proceeds being donated to the American Red Cross Hurricane Relief effort.
Gumbo with all the fixings will be available for a minimum $10 donation.� You may eat in or carry out.� Cash or Check only (please make checks out to the American Red Cross).
Deputies stage relief drive at Wal-Mart Saturday
The Fayette County Sheriffs Office will accept donations for the Fayette County Department of Family and Children Services in a hurricane relief drive at the Fayette Pavilion Wal-Mart Saturday from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m.
DFCS is the lead agency assisting the high volume of evacuees who are seeking help in the area.
Primary needs are for gift cards so families can buy food, clothing and gas. A list of all requested items will be available at the donation site.
Car/bike wash to rise money for victims
Unrestricted Ryders Motorcycle Club and Personal Touch Mobile Detailers are sponsoring a car/bike wash to aid victims of Hurricane Katrina. The event will take place from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Saturday, Sept. 17 at Cycle Specialty in Fayetteville.
Unrestricted Ryders M/C is a newly formed motorcycle club based in Clayton County and led by President Daran Casey. The club is dedicated to serving their community and helping mankind.� Mitchell Gibbs, owner of Personal Touch Mobile Detailers, is also a member of the club. The sponsors recognize how Hurricane Katrina has devastated and claimed the lives of thousands of people, and they want to help those individuals affected by the wrath of the storm as much as possible. They will be accepting donations of toiletries, clothes, non-perishable items, money, and any other items that may benefit those in need.
Cycle Specialty is located on Georgia Highway 85 north of the intersection with Georgia Highway 279 (Old National Highway).� Call 770-912-6757 or 404-606-4305 for additional information. The sponsors are grateful any support you can provide.
Governor asks churches for help
Governor Perdue asked faith-based organizations to designate a point-of-contact for the disaster relief effort and to provide their contact information to the state of Georgia by logging onto www.connections.org.� The Department of Community Affairs (DCA), with the assistance of the Georgia Emergency Management Agency (GEMA), the American Red Cross and the Salvation Army, will coordinate with each point-of-contact to match offers of resources and volunteers with relief efforts that are currently underway.
Governor Sonny Perdue and members of Georgias faith community announced today a statewide collaborative effort to provide long-term relief for displaced evacuees from Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama.
Faith-based partners will help us channel goodwill to where it can benefit the most.� I encourage every local congregation to designate your point-of-contact and join this effort, said Governor Perdue.
OM provides hurricane relief
Operation Mobilization (OM), an international Christian mission agency with its US office in Tyrone, is providing help following Hurricane Katrina. OM is working with churches linked to the organization but not affected by the storm, connecting them with churches and ministries which were affected. In
addition, financial contributions are currently being used to help operate two shelters, and will be used for other needs as funds become available. OM is also exploring opportunities to send medical relief teams to the area.
The agency's Katrina Relief Fund is assisting a church in Shreveport,
Louisiana, and another in Birmingham, Alabama, which have opened
shelters and taken in evacuees. A church in the Atlanta metro area with
an ongoing relationship with OM has been put in touch with a church in
Slidell, Louisiana, and has a work team on the way to deliver supplies
and help with clean-up efforts. OM would like to help affected churches
regroup and get on their feet enough so they can reach out and help
others in their local communities.
OM's focus for relief help is usually outside the US, and the
organization was and still is very involved in helping tsunami victims
in South Asia. OM has nearly 4,100 workers in 110 nations, and the
Tyrone office is home base for nearly 500 American adults serving with
the ministry.
Financial contributions to OM for hurricane relief can be made online at
www.usa.om.org (online giving requires a minimum of $25) or by sending a
check payable to OM and marked Katrina Hurricane Relief to P.O. Box 444,
Tyrone, GA 30290. For questions regarding OM's involvement, please call
770-631-0432.
Fairburn UMC asks for help
Fairburn First Methodist Church needs noon-perishable food items, diapers, clothes, money, toiletries, books, toys and baby items for evacuees the church is helping. The church is located at 5 Washington Street, Fairburn, 770 964-3393. For more information, call Youth Director Debbie Jenkins at 404 277-9786.
Born Again Bargains needs donations
Born Again Bargains Thrift Store, Hudson Plaza in Fairburn,
needs clothing, shoes, furniture, money, bedding, toiletries all kinds of household items and appliances in order to assist hurricane evacuees. For more information call 770 774-9050.
Donations needed in S. Fulton
South Fulton Business & Empowerment Center, a ministry of Open Word Christian Ministries, needs food, money, toiletries, and housing for evacuees. The center is located at 6810 Shannon Parkway, Suite 1A, in Union City. It is in the small shopping center directly behind Arby's on SR 138 and directly adjacent to the IHOP parking lot. Contact assistant manager Barbara Stallings or CEO Marc Ellis at 770-964-5744 for more information.
Keltic Kudzu to raise money for hurricane relief
Popular Atlanta based band Keltic Kudzu (www.keltickudzu.com), just back from their successful tour in Canada, will be donating all proceeds from their CD release party, Saturday, Sept.17th at the Red Light Caf� to the Red Cross for Hurricane Katrina relief.�
�A $7 donation at the door gets you in to hear some great "Celtic music with a Southern accent" at 8 p.m., as well as local indie electronica band Twelfth Planet (www.twelfthplanet.org) at 10 p.m.
�In addition, Keltic Kudzus new CD, the appropriately named In Our Own Country, will be available for $15, and all proceeds from their CD sales will be donated to the relief fund.�
The Red Light Caf� is located at 553 Amsterdam Avenue in Atlanta. Phone 404-874-7828 for more information.
Relief Homes Georgia provides registry
Relief Homes Georgia, an internet-based registry intended to find temporary housing in the Georgia area for Hurricane Katrina evacuees from Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama, is now on-line and functioning.
Located on the internet at www.reliefhomesgeorgia.com and including a link to a Spanish version, the website was launched by a group of Atlanta area IT and hospitality industry professionals in the immediate aftermath of Hurricane Katrina to help make a difference for evacuees relocating in this area. It is intended to serve as a bridge of communication between those who are in need and those who have resources to offer, and more information about the effort can be obtained by going to the website.
Information about volunteer hosts which is posted on the website will be made available only to relief agencies and will not be released to the general public. The registration form includes places where volunteer hosts can give specific conditions under which they are willing to host, such as choosing the length of the time of stay, number of people, gender of guests, whether hosts are willing to accept children and pets, and other information.
A Relief Homes Georgia spokesperson asked persons who have space for at least one person for one week, to register on the website by selecting the Register to Host button. Relief Homes Georgia will work with agencies such as the Hosea Feed the Hungry Foundation, Latin American Association, local churches, or other non-profit relief agencies to match the registered temporary housing hosts with families or individuals in need of temporary housing. Once a match is made, the providers of the temporary housing will be contacted by a volunteer from Relief Homes Georgia.
The Relief Homes Georgia website contains a number of helpful links for those seeking more permanent housing, food stamps, school enrollment for children, employment, and appropriate medical care when necessary.
The Latin American Association serving the Atlanta area is receiving donations of food and clothing that will be shared with people who take in evacuees.
Relief Homes Georgia is also seeking additional volunteers to help with the program on a day-to-day basis, and contact information can be found on the website. Current sponsors include Visions USA Inc., SignUp4, and Jimmy Booth Public Relations.
Catholics respond to crisis
The Catholic Church of St. Gabriel is taking up a collection for hurricane victims at the request of Atlanta Archbishop Wilton Gregory. Many residents in the New Orleans and surround areas are Catholic and are calling upon local Catholic churches for assistance.
Also the church is working closely with Square Foot ministries on building an addition on the home of a local home where many family members from the Louisiana area have come to stay.
For information on how you can help, call the church at 770-461-0492.
Methodists need health kits, flood buckets
North Fayette United Methodist Church and Hopewell UMC are collecting health kits and flood buckets for the Red Cross and the United Methodist Committee on Relief.
A health kit will cost about $12 to put together and will include the following items: hand towel, wash cloth, comb, nail file or fingernail clippers, bath-size bar of soap, toothbrush, large tube of toothpaste, and bandaids. Please put these items in a sealed one-gallon plastic bag. Do not include money, notes or any other literature.
These kits may be brought to North Fayette UMC, 847 New Hope Rd., Fayetteville, Monday through Friday, 8:30 to 4:30 or to Hopewell UMC, 351 Jenkins Rd. For hours at Hopewell, call 770-306-7537.
Fayetteville 1st UMC accepts donations
First United Methodist Church in Fayetteville is accepting donations on behalf of the United Methodist Committee on Relief. It provides relief to disaster areas with 100 percent of the tax deductible gift going toward the project you designate. Checks can be made to FFUMC, with hurricane relief on the memo line. You can also donate on at methodistrelief.org or by phone at 1-800-554-8583.
McDonough Rd Baptist collects money
McDonough Road Baptist Church is collecting funds which will be sent in total to the Georgia Baptist Katrina Disaster Relief Fund. For further information call 770-460-5423.
Take Donations to Landmark
The students at Landmark Christian School have a goal to collect $5,000 to offer releif to the victims of Hurrciane Katrina.
Students will bring their donations to Bible class or their elementary school teacher and the school will be accepting cash or check donations at the main offices in Peachtree City and Fairburn, as well as at the business office in Fairburn.
The school is partnering with City of Refuge, a nonprofit charitable organization headed up by Landmark parent Bruce Deel. Deel stated that Atlanta will host close to 10,000 refugees from the hurricane over the next several months and City of Refuge will provide shelter, diapers, water, clothes, medical care and other basic needs.
On Sept. 15, the high school will deliver Landmarks Quarters for Katrina Relief donation when they attend chapel at the City of refuge.�
Salvation Army accepts donations in Jonesboro
The Salvation Army has a donation center in Jonesboro at 130 Spring Street, across from Lee Street Elementary. Volunteers will staff the donation truck from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m.
The Salvation Army has issued a desperate plea for donations of canned goods and personal hygiene items for the more than 1,900 people who have already come to metro Atlanta Salvation Army facilities needing help.
Twin blankets and sheets, pillows, towels, shampoo, soap, razors, shaving cream, toothbrushes, toothpaste, brushes/combs, Q-tips, band aids/antibiotic ointment, baby food, bottles, diapers and baby wipes are needed.
Cash is also helpful because it can save money on shipping costs.
Truck loads in Fayetteville Saturday
Bring supplies for hurricane victims to the Hobby Lobby / Krystal Parking lot on Ga. Hwy. 85 in Fayetteville Saturday. Girl Scout Troop 511 of the Ga. Pine Valley Council is organizing this relief effort which will hand deliver collected items to those who are most in need.
The troop asks people to donate bottled water, Gatorade and Powerade, clothes for both adults and children, tooth brushes, tooth paste, diapers, formula, baby food, toilet paper feminine products, wipes hand sanitizer, soap, shampoo, combs, brushes and prayers.� Other items they would like to have include coloring books, stufed animals. pillows, sleeping bags, blankets, notebooks, pens, pencils, tents, fans, batteries, flashlights and more.�
They are also asking for help with their journey and are asking for large, strong boxes for organizing donated goods, permanent markers to label boxes, help with the cost of fuel for the donated tractor trailers and volunteers to help load the trucks and spread the word.�
For more information, e-mail mydutzi@yahoo.com.
Wild Birds Unlimited accepts donations
Wild Birds Unlimited, 100 N. Peachtree Parkway, Peachtree Crossings Shopping Center, will be accepting donations of non-perishable food items, diapers, baby supplies, and any related emergency supplies - we well either take them to the Salvation Army ourselves or have items picked up.
We will also be accepting cash donations, in any amount, for a non-profit organization called Noah's Wish, which helps animals in disaster situations.� Their site, if further info is needed, is WWW.NOAHSWISH.ORG
Cut-off for donations of either kind is October 1, and we'll be posting what was collected on our website in October.� If you have questions, please call or e-mail us, and thanks in advance for any assistance that you can provide.
iSold It on eBay raises funds
iSold It Peachtree City is asking individuals in the community to donate items for auction on eBay, with the resulting proceeds to be used to fund food and supplies for the victims of Hurricane Katrina.
The company has selected the American Red Cross as the recipient of proceeds earned through drop-off donations.
Individuals can help victims of the hurricane by bringing in new and used items to the iSold It Peachtree City store in the Braelinn Village Shopping Center. Items should have a minimum eBay selling value of $30 - $50.
The Peachtree City iSold It store is located at 536 Crosstown Drive in the Braelinn Shopping Center in Peachtree City just a few doors down from Kroger. Call 770-632-7227 or send an email to todd@isolditptc.com for more details or questions.
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