Getting Ready for New Orleans

Thanks to all the hard work from the class in raising money and donating supplies for Mrs. Schultz's class at Andrew Jackson Elementary in Chalmette, LA. The class has had two fund raising events at Granby Elementary: They made and sold Buckeyes, and raised over $100. Then, the whole school participated in "Wear you hat in school day," when the kids could wear hats (mainly in support of the Ohio State Buckeyes) in school all day, on the day of the national championship day. The catch was that it cost a one dollar donation to the Andrew Jackson Elementary Charity Fund.

Next week, I load the van with many, many cases of supplies for the school, and head for New Orleans to deliver the supplies. The school even arranged for me to stay a couple of nights in a FEMA trailer, the trailers in which thousands of survivors of Katrina still live.