This is an update for the Hurricane Katrina disaster relief fund for the Lake Pontchartrain North Shore. This includes the Covington, Abita Springs, Mandeville, and Slidell, Louisiana area.

We have received word via our contact page, from some individuals who have sent checks to the Trinity Evangelical Free Church in Covington, Louisiana where we have established the North Shore Disaster Relief Fund. If you would like to make a donation, please see the post below, or click here for donation information. This fund is administered by local people and distributed to local people who have great needs in this specific area.

We also want to provide a couple of links for those wanting information specifically for St. Tammany Parrish and the North Shore.

WWL TV has a great website with many links for the entire New Orleans area. Click on this link for West St. Tammany Parrish and on this link for East St. Tammany Parrish both of which are forums to find and post information. NOLA.com has a searchable forum to find information including an option to post for missing persons. This link is the official St. Tammany Parrish Government website which has an updated statement for residents and evacuees.

The Truth Laid Bare Katrina Relief Page has decided to continue with relief efforts through the entire Labor Day weekend. Please visit there for other donation options.

Those of us who are not in this disaster area should do all we can to help. We never know when we might face a similar circumstance. We may not have much, be we have infinitely more than they do right now.

Finally as our name implies, we are just a poor country boy, but we have friends, and “a man without friends, has a serious form of poverty”. –Charlie Ruggles - It Happened On Fifth Avenue 1947

Update: 2:00 PM CDT

We have a local Church in St. Peters Missouri, Grace Community Chapel who has volunteered to help raise money for this effort. They are also organizing a construction team to send to Covington and work with Trinity Evangelical Free Church as the point operation. Grace Community Chapel has also expressed interest in adopting a family, along with perhaps providing some short term housing for refugees from the Covington area.

We have developed a problem with communication with our people at Trinity Church and need anyone with a working cell phone in the Covington/Abita Springs/Mandeville area to contact Grace Community Chapel using the phone or E-Mail on thier website. You may also contact us privately using our Contact Page to send us the phone number or a number where we can return your call. Any help in re-establishing contact with Trinity Church would be appreciated.

Update: 4:30 PM CDT

Just an update that we have established contact again with a Staff Member of the Trinity Church, so contact information is no longer needed.

For those living, or who have loved ones in Abita Springs, the phones are now working for dialing in, but they can’t dial out yet.

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