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Hy-Vee Sponsors Kids' Halloween Fundraiser for Hurricane Victims: "WEST DES MOINES, Iowa, Oct. 28 /PRNewswire/ -- What started as a 10-year-old Iowa girl's idea for helping other kids in need has blossomed into a nationwide fundraising drive with a goal of raising more than $1 million for young victims of hurricane disasters. (Logo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20051028/CGF018LOGO ) Trick-or-Treating for the Levee Catastrophe -- or T.L.C., as it's come to be known -- was the brainchild of 10-year-old Talia Leman of Waukee, Iowa. While watching television news coverage of the Hurricane Katrina disaster and the plight of those left homeless, Talia posed a question to her mother: What if this Halloween, instead of collecting candy, kids across America collected spare change to donate to the hurricane victims?"
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