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12, no.
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Tropical Storm Lee
Search for Peace / 4
UMCOR and 9/11 / 3
9/11 remembered / 8
In the wake of Tropical Storm...
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VoL.
12, no.
18 sePtemBer 23, 2011Baton roUge, La
non-Profit
U.
s.
Postage
PaidBaton
roUge,La
Permit#575
527northBlvd.
Batonrouge,La
70802-5700
Tropical Storm Lee
Search for Peace / 4
UMCOR and 9/11 / 3
9/11 remembered / 8
In the wake of Tropical Storm Lee,
United Methodists are contending with
the damage from floods — and flames.
While the storm’s heavy rains cut a
soggy path across Louisiana, Mississippi,
Alabama and Georgia, Lee’s 50-mile-perhour winds whipped wildfires in parched
Texas as well as in parts of Louisiana.
“My real worry is just having funding
to be able to help,” said the Rev.
Tom
Hazelwood, the executive in charge of
the United Methodist Committee on
Relief’s U.
S.
disaster response.
“We were
short and we got a little money in to help
with the spring storms, and now we’ve
got all of this, and we have to ask people
to give again for a different set of circumstances.
”
Hazelwood spent most of Sept.
7
coordinating response to the fire-ravaged
parts of Texas, wh
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