Two Containers Delivered to Elkhorn Nebraska
OGT’s delivered two containers to Elkhorn, NE. to help with clean up after a tornado ravaged around 240 homes. It was an EF3 with peak winds of 165 mph, nearly a mile wide and remained on the ground for 30 minutes. The container shown is empty and will be at Bethany Lutheran Church today to…
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Disaster Relief for NE, IA & OK
We Need Your Help for Tornado Disaster Relief Supplies Orphan Grain Train is working with organizations accessing the damage from the destructive tornadoes that ripped through parts of Nebraska, Iowa and Oklahoma recently. The outpour of help from communities and organizations has been amazing and clean up is underway with retrieving of personal items. We…
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Many In Need After Tornado
On Wednesday, April 10, Slidell, LA was hit by an EF-2 tornado that wreaked havoc on this town that has survived hurricanes but never a tornado like this. Many buildings and homes were damaged with cars overturned leaving residents traumatized. OGT’s Field Work Director Pete Gnan happened to be in a neighboring town working with…
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Hay Delivered to Texas
Nikki Lutz, driver, took a load of hay to Justin Coleman ranch is Briscoe, TX on 4/13. Briscoe is south of Canadian, TX and sustained long term damage from last month’s fires in the Texas panhandle. This is one of 6 loads that went out in the past week to either the Oklahoma or Texas…
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Storage and Tools Will Help Others Provide Help to Folks in Need
The Fuller Center – Disaster ReBuilders organization has been a partner with OGT in Louisiana for several years helping families rebuild after hurricanes. The containers are filled with various tools and storage used by volunteers cleaning up and rebuilding disaster areas. Photos are of the containers being placed at Clarksville, TN for Fuller Disaster volunteers…
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1,900 Fence Posts Delivered to Texas
OGT purchased & delivered 1,900 wooden fence posts for ranchers in Texas that had posts destroyed in the recent wildfires. They are in desperate need of these to corral livestock that survived. Thank you, OGT donors for your support of Texas disaster relief aid. OGT has funded 3 loads of hay bales for ranchers in…
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Hay Designated to Help Calves Orphaned
Lowell Kreiger took a load of donated hay for OGT to Oklahoma for fire relief. This load of hay was designated to help calves that were orphaned and needed feed. OGT also had calf milk delivered for the calves. Thank you, OGT supporters, for providing this needed relief for ranchers that lost nearly everything.
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Danke – Thank you!
Orphan Grain Train would like to Give a Big ‘Thank You’ to everyone that came out to ‘Oktoberfest in May’ Thank you to our generous and dedicated donors! I think this was a record Big Give for gifts this year. We raised $13,009.00 for families devastated by the recent tornadoes in Elkhorn, NE and surrounding…
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Aid for Tornado Victims
Nancy Helmke, coordinator for OGT’s Ohio Collection Center in Napoleon has a personal connection to the March 14 – F3 tornado that ripped through Lakeview and 3 miles away at Indian Lake, OH. Nancy’s sister Peg and her husband Doug Dammann live in Lakeview, their brick home had very little damage yet all their neighbor’s…
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