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Thursday, September 15, 2005
Katrina survivors settling in
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Central Piedmont
Commimity College and
tlion^ he cheered for the
New Orleans Saints last
Sunday as they beat the
Carolina Panthers, that will
change when he' puts roots
down here.
“You have to root for the
home team,” he said.
Benedict Smith, who
arrived in Charlotte with a
convoy of three cars and near
ly a dozen family members
said Charlotte has been good
to him, but he’s ready to go
home.
“Everywhere we go, when
they find out where we’re
Jfrom, it’s like here you go,
take this,” he said.
Smith said he and his fami
ly had moved in with his
nephew, who’d already had a
full house with his three chil
dren and wife, but too many
people in one place caused
problems.
“We had 22 in the house up
until two days ago. It was
hard to shower or do any
thing else,” he said. “It was
too crowded, we were at each
other’s throat.”
Smith said he and his dis
placed family members head
ed to the cohseum, which he
calls his headquarters, for
help. They received a voucher
for a 14-day hotel stay It kept
the family peace and every
one’s getting along now.
How to help
with Katrina
relief efforts
The National Newspaper
Pubhshers Association has
established an account at:
Citizens TVust Bank
“NNPA Relief Fund”
75 Piedmont Avenue, N.E.
Atlanta, Ga. 30303
Smith, his wife Lavem, and
other family members are
actively seeking an apart
ment or house to rent
because their children are in
school and they hope to be
working soon
“My aunt, by her being
handicap, she’s complaining
about the hills in North
Carolina,” he said with a
lai^h. ‘T said we can’t control
that.”
Smith said when he knows
that he can go back to the
west bank of New Orleans
and live; he and his family
will load up and go. But-he
has to make sure something
else is available to him and
his family-jote.
‘We have no jobs and if we
have to stay here to make an
income and if it takes six
months or a year, TU be here.
Just as long as we can keep
the family together,” he said.
But if families have to stay
in Charlotte for years, will
the charity and good wiU last?
City Councilman Warren
Turner said the city of
Charlotte has always come
together in times of need to
help people get on their feet.
“This really hits home
because it’s local, it’s not over
seas, it’s about people in need
and sometimes people have
to go through things to
understand that there is
somebody going through
something worse than you,”
he said
Thmer said he thinks the
giving will continue but as
time goes on, he expects the
donations will come in on a
smaller scale.
“Once we start getting peo
ple placed into housing, some
people are going to go back
home and some people are
going to go live with relatives.
Then we’ll be able to deal
with individuals on a more
personal basis,” he said.
Turner said he expects
Charlotte to keep giving to
Katrina’s victims but not at
the level that people are giv
ing now. ^
"When asked about
Charlotte’s own homeless
and poor families and why
efforts like the one oiganized
for the evacuees haven’t been
extended to them, Turner
said that people need to
understand that this isn’t
just the city’s effort.
“The difference here is that
this is not just Charlotte.
This is a federal event here as
much as anybody else, if
FEMA wasn’t involved or
some other national oigani-
zations weren’t involved like
the (American) Red Cross
and the Salvation Army,
would we be able to organize
on this level, would the dty of
Charlotte be able to affoi’d
this, no we wouldn’t,” T\uner
said.
City oflidals hope to have
the coliseum closed by
Saturday, moving the few dis
placed people into other shel
ters or hotels depending on
the number of people remain
ing in the shelter at the end of
the week
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