Lion Teresa Ellison delivers the blue blanket.
The van unloaders: Richton students (L-R, back) an unidentified Richton educator, Lion Joe Downing, an unidentified student,
Lion Ken Hammack, Lion Calvin Coffey, and Lion Teresa Ellison |
October 5, 2005
It had been a comfort, a security blanket when he had been afraid because of some unfamiliar
event. So when the second-grader heard that his school, with all the Buena Vista public schools,
was collecting school supplies for Katrina victims, he knew what he had to do. He took his blanket to
school and gave it away, for the comfort of some child whose life had been upset by the flood.
"He told the principal at Enderly that it gave him a lot of comfort when things were not going right and he wanted someone in Richton to have it," said Lion Joe Downing.
The Buena Vista Lions club, together with the Buena Vista public schools, had taken on the task of helping another school system, the Richton, Mississippi public schools, get back to business after Katrina had closed them down.
"Buena Vista has been on the receiving end of aid following floods in '69 and '85," said Downing. "Now it is our turn to give." Students in every school-Enderley Heights and Kling elementary schools, Parry McCluer Middle school, and Parry McCluer High-had organized fund-raisers, raised over a thousand dollars and filled around 100 backpacks with school supplies for the Richton students.
A contingent of Buena Vista Lions collected the supplies and money-a $1000 contribution from the club and additional contributions brought the total cash to $3000-and in September delivered it all to the Richton schools.
The supplies and money will help the system recover, but will never have the impact of one blue blanket. |
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Buena Vista Lions Club