Hundreds of volunteers package food for Haiti quake survivors | Wichita and Kansas news | Crime, courts, weather, education, politics, events | Wichita Eagle

Hundreds of volunteers package food for Haiti quake survivors | Wichita and Kansas news | Crime, courts, weather, education, politics, events | Wichita Eagle: "At any one time Saturday, about 600 men, women and children stood at tables covering the Kansas Coliseum floor.

They all wore hairnets.

They worked as one for Haiti relief, as an assembly line to provide life-sustaining meals."

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media: Get Involved in Gustav Online Volunteer Efforts

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media: Get Involved in Gustav Online Volunteer Efforts: "As you know by now, Hurricane Gustav looks even more destructive than Katrina (see this round up from Lisa Stone, BlogHer, of the news reports and links). Three years ago, in the wake of the devastating storm, social media and others started organizing online. This time, online organizing efforts using social media are happening before the storm hits."

The Hawk Eye-Volunteers come from all over country to lend a hand

The Hawk Eye: "OAKVILLE -- Mike Husbands of Texas celebrated his 76th birthday Tuesday over cake and ice cream at the Solid Rock Baptist Church with a few of his colleagues from the Texas Baptist Men along with a lot of strangers.

Some are from Georgia, others from Pennsylvania, Mississippi and Iowa, and they all sat and shared sweet treats after a day of hard work tearing up sheet rock, wood and other debris from Oakville homes destroyed by last month's devastating flood."