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Newspaper
Odessa American
Location
Odessa, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 02, 2002
Page
10
Public service agencies sponsor a blood drive from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. today at the Odessa Police Department 205 N. Grant St. The event includes OPD and city partners with sponsors and donors urged to participate.
In Iowa the distribution center took about 13 months to become fully operational by January. Stewart credited Family Dollar for meeting expectations and delivering promises. In Morehead Kentucky officials noted nine to 11 months for construction, but lauded the plant’s fruitful benefits and called the company a wonderful find and a good corporate citizen.
La Leche League volunteers planned a World Breastfeeding Week walk at the Texas Department of Health office in Midland. The event marked the 11th year of the world walk with a 24 hour hotline and donations to fund international programs and start a league in Odessa. Volunteers spoke to about 300 mothers and pregnant women. The theme is Healthy Mothers and Healthy Babies. Contact C ockrell for information.
In its first month of use, the Texas based Amber Plan aided the safe return of two California teens abducted at gunpoint near Lancaster. Authorities say the alert helped locate Tamara Brooks sixteen and Jacqueline wide Amber Plan near Lake Isabella as radio and TV bulletins and freeway signs spread details nationwide.
Sam's Club officials will present awards during a three day meeting in Kansas City from Aug. 9 to Aug. 11. Canady and her husband Warren will attend, while Heaton plans to pass on the ceremony as his grandmother is due for hospital discharge that day. Heaton says he would feel guilty for accepting money and downplays the moment, though peers call it a big deal. Canady promotes her job and charity work, noting she has raised over $20,000 in nine Children’s Miracle Network fund-raisers by selling raffle tickets for a $500 Sam’s shopping spree and hinting at another campaign upcoming.
In Kansas City Missouri awards are presented during a December event running from December 9 through August 11. CMN director Mike Adkins notes the nonprofit funds pediatric care and that 100 percent of Odessa funds support Medical Center Hospital’s pediatric program. Canady recalls family rows with a child’s prematurity and a miraculous bill payment, crediting community generosity and the Children’s Miracle Network for ongoing support.
Andrews police report a 4 year old girl Chasity Foreman died at Shriners Burn Hospital in Galveston from burns after a June backyard explosion while two children tried to light a Hibachi with gasoline. The 10 year old boy Pane Fierro was released from University Medical Center after treatment.
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