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All, Rev. Connolly just wrote again about food that is needed in the Jackson shelters. Please do what you can:

More evacuees are coming in, and the people already at shelters cannot leave and they need prepared meals. Volunteers are in the St. Andrew’s Cathedral kitchen cooking anything parishioners bring in from their freezers, then delivering to the Coliseum and the Trade Mart. You may either cook your items and take to the Coliseum yourself, or we will cook it for you and deliver it to the folks in need. About 20 parishioners brought in items today and were prepared in the following dishes:

Spinach stuffed shells
Spinach Madeline
Roast Pork Loin
Bar-B-Q
Beef Tips & Noodles
Lasagna
Sausage & Biscuits
Chicken Gumbo
Succotash
Banana Bread
Green Beans
Brownies
Ham bean soup
Hamburgers
Grilled chicken

We are in need of cut up chickens, ground beef, vegetables, rice, and bread. Fresh fruit would be wonderful! Just drop it off at St. Andrew’s and we will cook and deliver it to the shelters.
Blessings,
Emma

Founding Editor Donna Ladd is a writer, journalist and editor from Philadelphia, Miss., a graduate of Mississippi State University and later the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism, where she was an alumni award recipient in 2021. She writes about racism/whiteness, poverty, gender, violence, journalism and the criminal justice system. She contributes long-form features and essays to The Guardian when she has time, and was the co-founder and editor-in-chief of the Jackson Free Press. She co-founded the statewide nonprofit Mississippi Free Press with Kimberly Griffin in March 2020, and the Mississippi Business Journal named her one of the state's top CEOs in 2024. Read more at donnaladd.com, follow her on Twitter and Instagram at @donnerkay and email her at donna@mississippifreepress.org.