Residents aid hurricane victims

News - Wilmette Life: "Residents aid hurricane victims

BY KEN GOZE
STAFF WRITER

Wilmette area residents, businesses and schools are scrambling this week to raise funds and material support for Hurricane Katrina victims, in many ways reactivating an informal assistance network that was developed after Sept. 11, 2001, and last year's tsunami.

Local fund-raising ranged from neighborhood car washes and lemonade stands to school- and community-wide campaigns that worked to raise hundreds of thousands of dollars in past disasters."