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• Red Cross online donation form  [on Red Cross website]

• American Red Cross response to Hurricane Katrina
  What is being done, how to help and how to find loved ones

• Local first responders go to aid of Katrina victims

• Illinois to take 5,000 to 10,000 Hurricane Katrina victims
  Governor calls on community leaders, legislators, not-for-profits, social service providers, ministers and businesses to work together to supply housing, medical care, food, clothing and other emergency services to displaced families

• First plane load arrives in Chicago
  Approximately 180 individuals receive medical care, housing on arrival late Tuesday

• Community Prayer Breakfast to pray for hurricane victims

Articles from the past week

Tuesday

• Water pumped from flood-hit city  (BBC)

• Gov. Blagojevich directs nearly 1,100 more Illinoisans to Louisiana to assist with hurricane effort
  New deployment includes 500 Illinois National Guard, nearly 600 firefighters, 50 fire trucks and other firefighting equipment

• Lincoln College helps student victims of Hurricane Katrina

• Weekend roadside safety checks in Lincoln part of 'You Drink and Drive. You Lose'

• Agriculture Department authorizes some gas stations to post half-gallon prices

Monday

• (Labor Day holiday)

Saturday

• Katrina help: Illinois Incident Management Team to support Mississippi emergency management personnel
  Two IEMA employees part of 11-member team

• Community Foundation of Central Illinois announces help for Hurricane Katrina victims

• Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum partners with American Red Cross to offer free admission to those who make donations to Hurricane Katrina victims

• Free 'Pops in the Park' with the Illinois Symphony Orchestra
  Red Cross to accept donations

• Impaired driving is focus of Labor Day weekend mobilization

• LaHood to meet with Armington firefighters on Monday to celebrate awarding of federal grants

Friday

• Katrina update:
  Desperate survivors beg for help  (International Herald Tribune)
  No toll on death available yet

• Gov. Blagojevich sends more Illinois medical personnel to Louisiana to help hurricane victims
  Large number of sick, injured overwhelming medical personnel

• Gov. Blagojevich opens Illinois public schools to children displaced by Hurricane Katrina
  Governor orders schools to waive residency requirements for displaced families

• Gov. Blagojevich, Attorney General Madigan ask for temporary restraining order to stop removal of F-16s

• LaHood calls on Federal Trade Commission to review gas price spike

• State lays out aggressive plan for safer Illinois roads
  Law enforcement stepped up on Illinois roadways during Labor Day weekend

Thursday

• Up to 60,000 trying to flee New Orleans  (CNN)
  Thousands wait among dying evacuees at convention center

• New Orleans evacuation under way  (BBC)
  The total evacuation of New Orleans is under way as conditions in the city battered by Hurricane Katrina worsen

• Hurricane Katrina recovery information
  Emergency phone numbers for people in distress

• Lincoln Rotary organizes local Katrina relief effort
  Supply collection to begin Tuesday

• Salvation Army seeks cash donations for hurricane relief

• President Bush releases oil from Strategic Petroleum Reserve to bring down gas prices

• IDOT gives drivers a break, suspends work for Labor Day weekend

• Other news:

• Human toll of Hurricane Katrina affects all of us

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