Relief to Haiti

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James Taylor, of Soucie Trucking, Cambridge, picks up about 400 health kits for delivery to earthquake-shaken Haiti. Helping Taylor load his morning at Memorial United Methodist Church in McCook were the Rev. Lance Clay, Shanon Williams, left, and Sarah Jenkins. Williams said contents for the kits were donated by McCook, Wauneta, Palisade, Culbertson, Trenton, Danbury and Curtis/Garden Prairie churches. Each kit contains a hand towel, washcloth, nail file or clippers, comb, soap, toothbrush, bandages, and $1 to buy toothpaste, purchased in bulk. Taylor will deliver kits from Methodist churches across Nebraska and in Des Moines, Iowa, to the United Methodist Committee on Relief Sager Brown Depot in Baldwin, La., and then shipped to UMCOR relief coordinators in Haiti. Williams said she will take more health kits to the Nebraska United Methodist Conference in Lincoln in June, for a summer-time delivery to Haiti.

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