Gladys Porter Zoo in Brownsville TX
January 28, 2009
It was too cold today, under 60 degrees, so the gorillas were inside. The teenage boys are in a separate cage, but the rest of the family were in rare form playing.
Houston Fest Galax, VA
We arrived in Galax, VA and stopped at our friend, Harold's. He was just putting the finishing touches on a cake he made for his nephew. Harold is great in the kitchen! Brenda arrived! We had a nice meet and greet. We went to the school across the street with Brenda and Harold and met Linda who likes hugs. Each day the three of them and others from the community volunteer to prepare backpacks of food items for children who otherwise would good the weekend hungry. They have fund raisers to get money and purchase food items that children can manage for breakfast and lunch. They also get donations. There is a man in Florida that heard about their need for food so ships items from Amazon.com for them to distribute. They get everything organized then run an assembly line to package items. The bags are then sent to the classrooms where the teachers put them in the children's backpacks so that no one is called to any attention. Time to head to Houston Fest whose mission is to hon
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