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Article: First Book to Mark One-Year Anniversary of Hurricane Katrina With Book Relief Distribution in Hattiesburg, MS.
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- August 24, 2006
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Book Relief - Rebuilding Children's Lives, One New Book at a Time
WASHINGTON, Aug. 24 /PRNewswire/ -- First Book(R) today announced that their Gulf Coast hurricane relief initiative, Book Relief(TM), will mark the one year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina with a 177,000-book distribution in Hattiesburg, Mississippi the week of August 28. Schools, libraries and nonprofit programs from communities throughout the region will receive new books to replace those lost in the aftermath of the storms that struck the Gulf Coast last fall.
First Book launched Book Relief in September 2005, in response to the enormous devastation caused by hurricane Katrina. Since ...