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Article: Tornado Rips through Warehouse, Provides 180,000 Shoes for Orphans
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- U.S. Newswire
- Article date:
- May 13, 2008
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To: STATE EDITORS
Contact: Rachel Garton of Shoes for Orphan Souls, +1-469-877-
4517, rgarton@buckner.org
SAN ANGELO, Texas, May 13 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Alan Wilson
of Templeton Construction didnt like the idea of destroying new
shoes. So when he was tasked with taking shoes out of the tornado-
wrecked R.G. Barry Corporation distribution center to the city dump,
he became the first in a series of heroes to help bring 180,000
pairs of Shoes for Orphan Souls to needy children.
Due to insurance regulations, the shoes were declared unavailable
for sale or in-country distribution. So when Wilson was asked to
toss the undamaged shoes, he decided to seek out charity
organizations instead. He ...