“We realize that we could more easily have collected money and sent it down to Second Mile. Second Mile is working with The United Way and The Red Cross to resettle families into permanent homes. The shipment will be packed Tuesday for a Wednesday departure and will be delivered to Second Mile Mission Center in Houston on Thursday. Peter’s is coordinating the communitywide effort, which is being supported by many schools as well as businesses and individuals. Peter’s Episcopal Church to Houston to support evacuee families settling in that area. Peter’s shipping relief supplies to Houston From staff reports Final preparations are being made for a shipment of hurricane-relief supplies from St. Kelly Friend and two workers were boarding up her store in Key West, Audio Video in Paradise Inc., and painted a message on the ply- St. ‘‘We walked by a bar (Sunday) and heard there was an evacuation. A resident of Stuart, he hoped to beat the rain and traffic heading north and wanted to be able to find gas before stations close or run dry. Key West streets were quiet this morning as Mike Pettengill, 54, packed his Harley-Davidson motorcycle. Katrina crossed South Florida into the Gulf last month, killing 11 people, before it turned northward to Louisiana and Mississippi. By the weekend, computer models projected that it could be in the northwest Gulf of Mexico near Texas, but people in areas ravaged by Hurricane Katrina were warned it could veer in their direction instead. Rita, which strengthened Sunday into a tropical storm, had sustained wind of 60 mph as of 8 a.m., and could be a Category 1 hurricane by the time it passes the Keys, the National Hurricane Center said. Hurricane warnings were posted for the Keys and the storm’s eye was expected to pass between the islands and Cuba on Tuesday. The weather was clear this morning but expected to deteriorate through the day with the approach of Rita’s outermost bands of rain. Visitors were ordered to clear out of the entire length of the low-lying Keys, which are connected by just one highway. The evacuation covered 40,000 people living from below Marathon to Key West. (AP) - Officials ordered residents evacuated from the lower Florida Keys today as Tropical Storm Rita headed toward the island chain, threatening to grow into a hurricane with a potential 8-foot storm surge. Rita gathering strength storm could become Category 1 hurricane as it crosses islands of Florida KEY WEST, Fla.EDT Projected path Potential movement area Tropical storm warning Hurricane watch Hurricane warning 0 400 mi 0 400 km Gulf of FLA. Tropical Storm Rita LOCATION 22.8° N 74.6° W ALA. Keys Rita rolls west Tropical Storm Rita is expected to strengthen to a category 1 hurricane by late today. The Sheridan Press/Pat Blair Mandatory evacuations in Fla. At left, Janice Dow of Big Horn has her blood pressure checked by Lena Yellow Tail, a Sheridan College nursing student. The massage chairs proved one of several popular draws at the Fair. Please see Health Fair, Above, Shaina Young, a student in Sheridan College’s massage therapy program, gives a massage to Joyce Ross of Sheridan during Saturday’s Health Fair in the college’s Bruce Hoffman Golden Dome. She added many of those individuals said they would have blood drawn for next year’s event. “And a lot of people attended the Health Fair who didn’t have blood drawn this year,” she said. As of this morning, Lassle said, packets that were not picked up at the Health Fair on Saturday amounted to 1,000 or fewer. Blood taken is tested, and each individual can receive the results of his test at the Health Fair.
Around 5,000 county residents had blood drawn in August at Sheridan Memorial Hospital in preparation for the Health Fair. “We were pretty close in numbers to last year,” she said.
Lassle based the count on the number of blood-draw packets remaining to be picked up this morning.
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