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HOOSIERS COMING TO AID OF KATRINA VICTIMS

Hoosiers all over the state are doing what Hoosier always do -- helping.

Hoosiers are coming to the aid of Katrina victims in every way possible.  High school cheerleaders spent Friday night taking up collections for Hurricane victims at high school football games across the state.  Contributions and volunteers are streaming in to the Red Cross.

Specially trained urban rescue teams from Indiana are now on the job in southern Mississippi, doing the gruelling and painstaking work of going house to house, car to car, searching for survivors and victims.

And more than 2,000 Indiana National Guard members are now on duty in the Gulf Coast.  This is the largest contingent from any state outside the impacted area.

Let's keep up the support.  Here is a list from FEMA or the established organizations taking contributions and/or volunteers for the Katrina relief effort.

Donate cash to:

American Red Cross
1-800-HELP NOW (435-7669) English,
1-800-257-7575 Spanish;

America’s Second Harvest
1-800-344-8070

Humane Society of the United States
1-888-259-5431

Operation Blessing
1-800-436-6348

United Jewish Communities
1-877-277-2477

Donate Cash and/or Volunteer

United Methodist Committee on Relief
1-800-554-8583

Adventist Community Services
1-800-381-7171

B'nai B'rith International
1-888-388-4224

Catholic Charities, USA
1-800-919-9338

Christian Disaster Response
941-956-5183 or 941-551-9554

Christian Reformed World Relief Committee
1-800-848-5818

Church World Service
1-800-297-1516

Convoy of Hope
417-823-8998

Corporation for National and Community Service Disaster Relief Fund
(202) 606-6718

Disaster Psychiatry Outreach
1-212-598-9995

Feed the Children
1-800-525-7575

Lutheran Disaster Response
800-638-3522

Mennonite Disaster Service
717-859-2210

Nazarene Disaster Response
888-256-5886

Presbyterian Disaster Assistance
800-872-3283

Salvation Army
1-800-SAL-ARMY (725-2769)

Southern Baptist Convention -- Disaster Relief
1-800-462-8657, ext. 6440

UJA Federation of New York
212 836-1880

New Voice -- Hoosier Lawyer

Hoosier Lawyer -- The name just seems to fit.  This is where I was born, where I was educated, and where I've practiced law for 25 years.

My claim to "Hoosier" is well-founded.  My parents were born in Indiana -- my mother in 1907 in  "Sweet Owen County" (as she would say), and my dad back in 1900 in Randolph County.   I am the youngest by far in a family of 7;  my parents were 45 and 52 when I was born.

My grandparents -- all four of them -- were also born in Indiana in the mid-1800s.  And before that . . . well, let's just summarize that my ancestors can be traced in Indiana back to the time of statehood.  In fact, if you visit Union Cemetery just outside the little cross-roads of Windsor in Randolph County, you can trace both sides of my family -- along with an endless procession of cousins -- back to the early 1800s.

So as I move through this electronic adventure known as blogging, I carry my Hoosier roots proudly. We'll just have to see where this electronic road takes us.